MaintScope · Vet clinic
Vet clinic ventilation & theatre climate
Kennel ventilation is a welfare issue before it's a comfort one, and heat stress moves fast. Add a theatre that drifts during long procedures on animals who can't regulate their own temperature, and the stakes are clinical rather than commercial.
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.
Get a health checkWorked example · Vet clinic · Green Point
What the report actually says
What you’ve got
| Equipment | Age | Condition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medication/vaccine fridge | ~5 yrs | Watch | Sensor unverified, alarm untested |
| Theatre split system | ~7 yrs | Action | Struggling to hold temperature during long procedures |
| Consult room splits x2 | ~7 yrs | Serviceable | |
| Kennel/boarding ventilation | ~7 yrs | Action | Air movement well below what the space needs |
| Reception split | ~7 yrs | Serviceable |
Needs attention now
- Kennel ventilation is the serious one. Animals in a poorly ventilated room on a hot day is a welfare incident, and it happens fast. This needs measuring, not guessing.
- Theatre climate drifting during long procedures. Anaesthetised animals lose temperature regulation. A theatre that warms or cools mid-surgery is a clinical problem.
- Medication fridge sensor unverified — same story as any clinic.
Your service year
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Daily | Fridge temperature record |
| Quarterly | Kennel ventilation check — measured airflow, not a look |
| 6-monthly | All splits, theatre priority |
| Annual | Fridge calibration and alarm test |
What it costs — next 12 months
| Item | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Medication fridge service + calibration | $280 | $520 |
| Theatre split, 2 visits + diagnosis | $560 | $980 |
| Consult + reception splits (3), 2 visits | $1,080 | $1,680 |
| Kennel ventilation service | $480 | $900 |
| Total | $2,400 | $4,080 |
Coming in five years
- Theatre system replacement, correctly sized — $4,000–9,000
- Ventilation upgrade — $3,000–8,000
- Fridge replacement — $2,500–6,000
Quietly costing you money
Not money first — risk. But there’s cost too: a theatre unit running flat out to hold a temperature it can’t reach is burning power and its own life expectancy simultaneously. Sizing it right costs less over five years than running the wrong one.
What I’d do first
- Measure kennel airflow properly and fix it
- Diagnose the theatre unit — capacity problem or fault?
- Verify the fridge sensor and alarm
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.