MaintScope · Medical clinic
Medical clinic air conditioning & vaccine fridge
Consult rooms where doctors prop the door open, a waiting room that struggles every February, and a vaccine fridge whose sensor has never been checked. Practices tend to replace units one at a time as they fail, unplanned and at full price.
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.
Equipment someone else has already decided must keep working.
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What the report actually says
What you’ve got
| Equipment | Age | Condition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccine fridge | ~6 yrs | Watch | Sensor never verified |
| Consult room splits x4 | ~8 yrs | Watch | Two noticeably weaker than the others |
| Waiting room split | ~8 yrs | Action | Struggling on hot days, filters packed |
| Treatment room split | ~8 yrs | Serviceable |
Needs attention now
- Waiting room unit is undersized or underperforming. A full waiting room in February with a labouring AC is the complaint your reception staff absorb all day.
- Two consult rooms weaker than the rest. Usually gas loss or a fouled coil. Doctors don’t report it, they just prop the door open.
- Vaccine fridge sensor unverified — same issue as any clinic: documented compliance means nothing if the sensor is out.
Compliance context
Vaccine storage follows the national guidelines — purpose-built fridge, 2–8°C, recorded twice daily, logger reviewed weekly, breaches reported. This report covers equipment capability, not your compliance process.
Your service year
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Twice daily | Vaccine fridge temperature record |
| 6-monthly | All splits — filters, coils, gas check |
| 6-monthly | Fridge calibration verification and alarm test |
| Annual | Full fridge service |
What it costs — next 12 months
| Item | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Vaccine fridge service + calibration | $400 | $780 |
| Consult room splits (4), 2 visits | $1,440 | $2,240 |
| Waiting + treatment splits, 2 visits | $720 | $1,120 |
| Total | $2,560 | $4,140 |
Coming in five years
- Vaccine fridge — $3,500–9,000
- Split replacements — $2,200–4,000 each, and at eight years you’re on the clock for several
Quietly costing you money
Six units all running at reduced capacity costs more in power than six units running properly, and it shortens every one of their lives. Practices tend to replace units one at a time as they fail, at full price, unplanned. A service plan turns that into a schedule.
What I’d do first
- Diagnose the two weak consult rooms — gas or coils
- Waiting room unit assessed for capacity, not just serviced
- Verify the vaccine fridge sensor
How it works
$150 to come out. Everything else depends on what's there.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.