Category: Repair & Maintenance
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Facility Maintenance: New Year’s Resolutions
Facility Maintenance: New Year’s Resolutions At the beginning of every year, people all over the world will make commitments toward better habits, personal growth, or ambitious goals. It’s a time to plan out how we’ll improve our lives. It’s also a great time to set objectives for the properties you own or manage. Your facility…
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How to Prepare Your Commercial Facility for Wet Weather
How to Prepare Your Commercial Facility for Wet Weather In North America, it’s wintertime. For commercial facilities across the continent, that means wet weather and all of the complications that come with it. Facilities Managers have to consider everything from inconveniences to regulatory requirements to ensure their properties are ready to handle whatever Mother Nature…
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Facility Maintenance Punchlist: Customer Edition
| Facility Maintenance Punchlist:Customer Edition Facility maintenance is a consistent cycle of finding new tasks, completing them, and moving on to the next. A Facilities Manager’s attention is being pulled in several directions at any given moment, so punchlists are their best friend. An organized approach to repairs and maintenance can be the difference between…
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Three Ways Preventative Maintenance Can Help Avoid Emergencies
Three Ways Preventative Maintenance Can Help Avoid Emergencies We’ve written about emergency repairs before. But any good Facilities Manager or Property Manager will tell you that it’s best to avoid emergencies if at all possible. Here are three ways that preventative maintenance can help you accomplish that goal. | PLUMBING EMERGENCIES Plumbing might not be…
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4 Simple Things to Keep Your Parking Lot Looking Clean
4 Simple Things to Keep Your Parking Lot Looking Clean We all know first impressions are important. So if your facility’s parking lot is one of the first things that someone sees, why is it so often neglected? Here are four simple things you can do to keep your parking lot looking clean and inviting.…
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How to Deal With Emergency Repairs
How to Deal With Emergency Repairs No matter how much we plan and prepare, we can’t prevent everything. Stuff happens and we simply can’t be ready for it all. So what should you do when an emergency situation arises at your commercial facility? | ASSESS THE SITUATION Never go blindly into an emergency situation, especially…