MaintScope · Dog grooming

Dog grooming & daycare ventilation

No trade fouls equipment faster. Coils pack with hair, exhaust blocks, and high-velocity dryers dump heat into a room that was never sized for them. Under-ventilated boarding on a hot day is an animal welfare incident, not a comfort complaint.

ABN 54 824 299 683RTA AU069294RHL L149949
Something not working right now?Don't read the rest of this — get someone out to look at it.

And if it's still running

Know what it's going to cost you — before it costs you

A licenced tech goes through every bit of air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration you've got, and writes down what condition it's in, what needs doing and when, and what it's realistically going to cost you over the next year and the next five. Plain English, one PDF.

Nothing perishes — but a room that's uncomfortable empties out.

Get a health check

Worked example · Dog grooming · Kariong

What the report actually says

This is an example, not a real customer. It's built from the equipment a dog grooming business typically runs, so you can see the shape of the report before you book one. Yours would be based on what's actually in your place.

What you’ve got

Equipment Age Condition Note
Split systems x2 ~5 yrs Action Coils packed with hair, capacity well down
Grooming room exhaust ~5 yrs Action Hair-blocked, moving very little air
Boarding/daycare ventilation ~5 yrs Watch Marginal for the number of animals
Hot water unit ~5 yrs Serviceable

Needs attention now

  • Hair. Everywhere. Your coils are packed and your exhaust is blocked. No other trade on this list fouls equipment as fast as grooming, and standard annual servicing is nowhere near enough.
  • Dryer heat load. High-velocity dryers dump serious heat into a room that was sized without accounting for them. Your AC is fighting equipment you added later.
  • Animal welfare risk. Heat stress in dogs comes on fast, especially brachycephalic breeds. Under-ventilated boarding on a hot day is the real exposure here, not comfort.

Your service year

When What
Weekly Filter and grille clear — genuinely weekly here
Quarterly Coil clean and exhaust clear
6-monthly Full split service
Annual Ventilation assessment against animal numbers

What it costs — next 12 months

Item Low High
Splits (2), 2 visits $720 $1,120
Quarterly coil and exhaust clean $720 $1,440
Ventilation assessment $280 $560
Hot water service $180 $280
Total $1,900 $3,400

Coming in five years

  • Split replacement — $2,200–4,000 each, and hair fouling brings it forward hard
  • Purpose-built extraction — $3,000–8,000
  • Boarding ventilation upgrade — $4,000–10,000

Quietly costing you money

Packed coils can cost 20–30% of capacity in a room already fighting dryer heat. You’re running two units flat out to do the work of one and a half. Quarterly cleaning costs less than the power you’re wasting, before you count the years it adds to the equipment.

What I’d do first

  1. Full coil clean and exhaust clear, then quarterly — this is the whole game in your trade
  2. Assess ventilation against your actual boarding numbers on a hot day
  3. Work out whether the dryers need their own extraction

How it works

$150 to come out. Everything else depends on what's there.

  1. I come out — $150.I go through the lot: what you've got, how old it is, what condition it's in. Takes an hour or two depending on how much is in the place.
  2. You get it in writing within 48 hours.One PDF. What's there, what needs doing and when, what it should cost you over the year, and what's coming further out.
  3. Anything that needs fixing, I quote on what I find.I can't price a service off a website — it depends on the unit, the access and what turns up when it's open. You'll get a real number, not a guess.
  4. If you'd rather not think about it again, I'll handle it.Scheduled servicing across the year, timed around your trade. No lock-in — plenty of people take the report and go it alone, and that's genuinely fine.
For a dog grooming, expect somewhere around $1,900–3,400 a year in routine servicing once it's on a schedule — not counting breakdowns. Most people are either spending nothing and paying for it later, or spending more than that reacting to things. Knowing the number is the point.
Book a visit — $150

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