Cooling systems
Chillers are heavy, full of refrigerant, and usually in the worst possible place. Cooling towers are on the roof. We take both out: refrigerant recovered and documented first, then the shell cut and rigged, then the crane if that is how it has to leave.
What we remove
How it goes
Before anyone opens a line. Our EPA 608 Universal certified tech recovers it, or a certified recovery partner does when the job size makes that the smarter call. Either way it is weighed, cylindered and documented.
Water-cooled machines leave basements in cut pieces. Air-cooled units and towers leave roofs by crane or in sections down the stairs. The path decides the sequence.
Shells, tube bundles and frames sectioned for the route. Skates, winches and chain hoists inside; crane coordination on the roof.
Copper and steel to the yard, credited against your price. The recovery record goes in your closeout.
Before we arrive
Every proposal spells this out. It is what keeps the job safe and the price honest.
Recent work
Twenty 316-stainless process vessels at 1,500 to 2,100 lb each, one rigged down from 24 feet up in a glass atrium, then a full commercial kitchen: hood line, walk-in coolers and freezers, oven and ice machine. Refrigerant recovered across six circuits and three refrigerant types. Two contracts, signed closeout packages, zero incidents.
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Twenty-three mechanical units and roughly a mile of copper piping sectioned and removed across six floors through elevator and freight constraints, with floor protection, scheduled access windows and daily broom-clean turnover. Tenants above and below never knew we were there.
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It gets recovered into DOT cylinders by type, weighed, and either reclaimed or sent to a certified reclaimer with a record showing pounds, cylinders and the receiving facility. Nothing is vented. On big jobs a certified recovery partner may do the recovery while we work elsewhere on site; the documentation comes to you either way.
Yes. We coordinate the crane, the pick plan and the street or roof logistics, and it is priced as a line in the proposal so there is nothing to arrange on your side.
That is the normal case. Basement chiller rooms in office towers, schools between semesters, hospitals with a central plant running next door. Protected paths, scheduled windows, no surprises for the people upstairs.
A range in about a minute, or a site walk and a written proposal within 48 hours. Either way you're talking to an owner.
