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Preventive Maintenance

Summer Shutdown Deep Maintenance

A campus has one genuine maintenance window a year. Everything that needs an unoccupied building — coil cleaning, boiler and chiller service, roof work, asbestos-adjacent work, major electrical — has to happen inside it. The window is fixed and immovable, which makes shutdown planning a scheduling problem more than a technical one: work not sequenced into it waits a full year.

Interval Annual
Est. Duration 40.0 hrs
Steps 6
Applies To Education & Campus Facilities

The Procedure

The steps ChatterFix schedules for this PM. Every step is a checkable item on the work order — a technician can speak their way through it without touching a keyboard.

  1. Complete all deferred work orders that require unoccupied buildings
  2. Deep-clean coils, ductwork and diffusers across every air handler
  3. Service boilers and chillers ahead of the heating and cooling seasons
  4. Flush and treat domestic water systems standing idle over the break
  5. Inspect roofing, envelope and drainage before autumn weather
  6. Verify every classroom is fully functional before the first day back

Why This PM Exists

A campus has one genuine maintenance window a year. Everything that needs an unoccupied building — coil cleaning, boiler and chiller service, roof work, asbestos-adjacent work, major electrical — has to happen inside it. The window is fixed and immovable, which makes shutdown planning a scheduling problem more than a technical one: work not sequenced into it waits a full year.

What Skipping It Looks Like

Deferred maintenance compounds on an annual cycle, and buildings degrade in visible steps rather than gradually. The specific hazard of the shutdown itself is water: domestic systems standing idle for weeks in a warm building are a textbook Legionella growth condition, so a campus that skips the flush reopens with a genuine health risk in its taps and showers.

Setting the interval

Annual, planned months ahead. The work list should be built continuously through the year from deferred work orders rather than assembled in May — the constraint is the window, and nothing about it is negotiable.

Equipment This Covers

Common Questions

How often should this PM run?
Annual. Annual, planned months ahead. The work list should be built continuously through the year from deferred work orders rather than assembled in May — the constraint is the window, and nothing about it is negotiable.
How long does it take?
Budget about 40.0 hours for a technician working to the standard procedure. ChatterFix uses that estimate for capacity planning, then learns your plant's actual time from completed work orders.
What happens if we skip it?
Deferred maintenance compounds on an annual cycle, and buildings degrade in visible steps rather than gradually. The specific hazard of the shutdown itself is water: domestic systems standing idle for weeks in a warm building are a textbook Legionella growth condition, so a campus that skips the flush reopens with a genuine health risk in its taps and showers.
Can I use this checklist in ChatterFix?
Yes — this exact procedure ships in the Education & Campus Facilities industry pack. Pick your industry at signup and it is scheduled on the right assets automatically, with no configuration.

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