Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate Tips: Manage Your Utility Costs

July 13, 2017

COMMERCIAL REALESTATE, Management Companies, Property Owners, Subcontractors & Commercial Services

Air Conditioning Contractor Southeast Texas – Innovative Air Solutions

Southeast Texas Commercial Air Conditioning Specialist – Robert Currie with Innovative Air Solutions, serving the Golden Triangle

Each month, we’ll work with local experts to bring you some Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate Tips – ideas and insight on how to make your properties more valuable.

This month we spent some time with Robert Currie, owner of Innovative Air Solutions, a Southeast Texas commercial air conditioning contractor and talked about ways property owners and managers can lower utility costs.

Robert, thank-you for taking the time to talk with us. In Southeast Texas we see both long periods of brutal heat, but we also see some pretty rough cold snaps. What is your number one piece of advice for Southeast Texas commercial property management companies and business owners looking at taking control of heating and cooling costs?

Insulation is the number one thing you can do to bring down utility costs on Southeast Texas commercial properties. This is a one-time cost that pays you back greatly. Most building owners will realize significant monthly energy savings that last for decades, potentially saving thousands of dollars. Quality insulation will slow the rate of heat flowing into the building during the summer months. It will lower the flow rate of heat to the outside during the winter months. If you don’t know if you have the insulation you need, bring in a reputable professional Southeast Texas commercial air conditioning contractor to give you some advice.

What is another action Southeast Texas commercial property owners can take to bring down utility costs?

Most property owners don’t spend a lot of time thinking about air filters, but they are an easy way to realize additional savings on heating and cooling. Filters also protect air quality for your tenants and extend the life of your AC system. Indoor air quality can start with routine filter changes on a monthly basis. Pleated filters are better than fiberglass filters. Using a pleated filter, you can often lower your operating costs. A clean system doesn’t have to work as hard and will cost noticeably less to operate. Clean systems will also operate at a higher capacity than a dirty system. “Filters are the life of the system” is an old adage in the heating and AC industry that still has merit today. A clean system can provide many additional years of service for the units in you Southeast Texas commercial properties with fewer repair costs. If you’ve ever been hit with the cost of replacing a big commercial air conditioning unit, or several at the same time, you already know the value of extending the life of your current AC system.

Robert, do you have any final thoughts on how Southeast Texas commercial property owners can manage their heating and air conditioning costs?

Maintenance is the final piece of the puzzle. I’m a business owner myself, so I understand the desire to keep costs low. Often, we are tempted to manage costs to improve our bottom line. If you’re going to hold on to your SETX commercial property over time, regular maintenance of your AC can pay off tremendously. A reliable system that keeps you and your tenants happy year after year starts with maintenance. Talk to your tenants – they want quiet AC units that keep them and their customers comfortable with a minimum of downtime. One of the biggest problems Southeast Texas commercial building owners face is water leaks from the air conditioning system. Water leaks can be nasty and can damage ceiling tiles, sheetrock ceilings, floors, and your tenants ability to do business. Water leaks can also factor into a tenant’s decision to renew their commercial lease with you or to leave for a property they perceive as better maintained. In high humidity conditions, (which Southeast Texas is famous for), your system can generate a gallon of water per ton per hour. In other words a 5 ton system can fill a 5 gallon bucket with water in an hour. Water leaks are almost always preventable. In this case, an ounce of prevention really does offer a gallon of cure. Having the system serviced prior to the summer months could save hundreds of dollars in repair costs annually (per property) and much, much more in reducing building damage and tenant turnover.

Thank-you Robert. Any final thoughts for our readers?

We love working with Southeast Texas commercial property owners and managers. They’re passionate about maximizing the value of their properties, and we’re passionate about helping them.

If we can assist you in any way, we’d love the opportunity to come out and to hear how we can help.

For more information you can visit our website at www.i-airsolutions.com or feel free to call our office at (409) 233-7776.

We hope you’ve enjoyed today’s Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate Tips.

Are you looking for more ideas on how to increase the value of your Southeast Texas commercial property?

Stay tuned to Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate Magazine.

Our upcoming articles will include:

Interviews with Southeast Texas commercial developers
Bios of Southeast Texas general contractors
Insight from SETX Commercial Realtors
News from around the Southeast Texas commercial real estate community

We hope you have enjoyed today’s feature, Southeast Texas Commercial Air Conditioning Specialist – Robert Currie with Innovative Air Solutions, serving the Golden Triangle.

Would you like to advertise your commercial services company or your commercial/industrial property listings?

Call or EM today – we’d love to feature you in the Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate Magazine.

Daryl Fant, Publisher. Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate
SETXCommercialRealEstate@gmail.com
(512) 567-8068

We are your resource for Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate News– and a great SETX Advertising resource.

Pick up a copy of the magazine or visit us online at SoutheastTexasCommercialRealEstate.com.

“Like” Southeast Texas Commercial Real Estate on Facebook to receive current news and information – Southeast Texas commercial real estate listings, breaking news, events for the Southeast Texas commercial real estate community, and more.

If you’re looking for a Southeast Texas commercial air conditioning contractor, you’ll find Innovative Air Solutions an excellent partner.