Boiler Equipment Maintenance Plans
We offer a customizable Boiler Equipment Maintenance Plan to maintain optimum performance, improve system stability, extend equipment life, and minimize risk of a boiler system failure. By participating in the contracted service, your equipment will receive the necessary assessments, testing, and maintenance to fully support the routine and essential inspections. Ultimately, these services will enhance equipment safety, efficiency, and performance. At the end of the annual maintenance, the boiler will be closed and fitted with new high-quality gaskets. All findings will be properly documented.
Customize Your Maintenance Visit Schedule
To accommodate your operational needs and availability, you can customize the frequency of on-site visits to be Annual, Semi-Annual, Quarterly, or Monthly. Each option entails different inspections and services associated with each visit, see what’s included in each plan below.
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Membership Term Options
In addition to offering customizable options for the frequency of maintenance services, we also provide the ability to select the corresponding term duration, indicating the length of the membership contract. We’ve divided these options into four (4) tiers, each one coming with complimentary benefits added to the extended length.
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Why Should You Invest?
Routine Boiler and Pressure Vessel inspections are required by local jurisdictions. Typically, these critical inspections are required annually, but in some rare cases, they can be required bi-annually. The inspection frequency is determined by local laws and regulations. As such, Boiler and Pressure Vessel inspections are unavoidable and will result in a boiler and/or boiler system to be temporarily taken offline. The specific details involved to perform an annual inspection can be overwhelming for companies that do not have the resources to stay current with changing compliance regulations. As a result, it is beneficial and very common for companies to engage in knowledgeable technical resources who can easily navigate the inspection process. Outsourcing this responsibility to trained technicians can facilitate an expedient and successful approval by the local jurisdiction while enhancing your preventive maintenance objectives.
Under the Equipment Maintenance Plan, you can—
- Improve operational stability
- Improve burner combustion efficiency
- Improve boiler heat transfer efficiency
- Enhance safety and issue identification
- Reduce long-term repair cost
- Discounted parts quotes where needed
- Fixed labor erase inconvenience service fees
- Reduce annual inspection difficulties
- Priority access to technical expertise & service support
- Priority access to R.F. MacDonald Co. parts inventory
- Single-source responsibility for boiler system support
- Extend equipment life
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Maintaining Your Equipment
Whether or not you choose to utilize our preventive maintenance program, we highly recommend that you take steps to insure that your boiler equipment is protected. Additionally, we offer credited training courses on boiler operations and mechanics, visit R.F. MacDonald Co. Training for more information. Below are some valuable tips to follow when being proactive on the condition of your boiler application.
Controls
Proper water levels, operating pressures, and control devices are critical to your boiler system’s performance. Carefully check gauge glass for cracks or erosion and inspect the float and switches. Check the operation of all limit switches and sequences of operation timing.
Burners
Remove, check and clean dampers, nozzles, electrodes, scanners, hoses, compressors, filters, diffusers, etc. for blockage and/or damage.
Refractory
Check for cracking. Unrepaired, even mirror cracks can reduce boiler efficiency and allow warping and damage to occur on vital metal surfaces.
Fireside
Clean out any detectable soot can reduce the efficiency of your boiler tubes, tube sheets, and furnace area. Replace fireside gaskets when closing the boiler.
Waterside
Drain, open and flush the entire waterside of the boiler. Remove all low water controls to clean and inspect piping. Flush makeup and/or feed water pump strainers and water column float chambers. Drain expansion tanks and remove all plugs in control piping. Inspect and re-install controls. Inspect for damage due to waterside leakage around handholes and manholes, gauge glass assemblies and other wet surfaces. Check gaskets for wear and tear.