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COOL SERVICES
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A specialist climate control equipment hirer is launching a new service to enable
other companies to meet local demand with minimal capital outlay.
Extreme weather can obviously bring business opportunities for control equipment for marquees and flood damage restoration.
hirers. Unexpectedly hot or cold conditions create demand for air We sold 9,000 fans to insurers’ approved contractors immediately
conditioning and heating equipment, while flash flooding leads to after the 2007 floods, for use in tandem with dehumidifiers to keep air
emergency requests for moving for maximum water removal.
pumping and drying
products - as was “Our fleet is now large enough for Cool Services Hire to offer
dramatically illustrated equipment on a crosshire basis nationally. Hirers can pick up
during the summer of 2007. equipment from our West Midlands depot, or we can deliver quickly
However, preparing for anywhere in the country. This will enable them to meet local demand
such eventualities can be as required without having to invest in products themselves. Full details
difficult. Hirers may be will be available on our stand at the Executive Hire Show in February.”
unwilling to invest in stocks
of equipment that may not The company has a purpose-built facility for the repair and servicing
be required for long periods of dehumidifiers, heaters and air conditioning equipment. “There is
while normal conditions not a brand that our specialists cannot work on,” says Kevin Scott,
prevail and, moreover, “and this means that, as well as maintaining a hirer’s existing fleet,
the current economic if they have an old machine lying unused, we can get it running
background means capital effectively and ready to earn money.” Technicians are also qualified to
resources must be ensure that appropriate equipment meets the F-Gas regulation No
Kevin Scott, pictured at this year’s Showman’s Show,
believes the company can enable other hirers to “offer allocated carefully. 842/2006 that became law in July 2007. It governs the containment
a bigger range with minimum outlay.”
and recovery of certain fluorinated gases that might be present in
A company that aims to help hirers meet the challenge is Cool quantities of 3kg and above in air conditioning equipment and heat
Services Ltd, based in Shropshire. It was founded in 1978 to offer a pumps. Staff can check for leakages and see that information is
fixed air conditioning installation service, subsequently adding correctly recorded and labelled.
heating and drying equipment sales, and seven years ago it
established a separate hire activity, Cool Services Hire, which has “Following the credit crunch,
dedicated premises in Kingswinford, near Dudley. The Shrewsbury perhaps this is the time when
head office also has a 24,000ft
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workshop and warehouse facility. more than ever we need to
tighten our belts, outsourcing
The hire activity is headed up by Director, Kevin Scott, who has 30 or crosshiring specialist
years’ industry experience, having worked with Andrews Sykes and equipment from other hirers”
Rapid Heatbusters before helping to establish a climate hire says Kevin Scott. “Also, with
equipment depot in the Midlands for Air Trembath. “The opportunity our experience of this market,
arose to set up and run my own specialist depot for Cool Services in people can just pick up the
2002 and we have never looked back,” he says. “Our fleet amounts to phone and ask about the
more than 2,000 items including portable air conditioning units, equipment they might need for
evaporative coolers, fans, indirect and direct fired portable heaters, a particular application, and
dehumidifiers and carpet dryers. It must be one of the largest offered we might be able to suggest Cool Solutions sold 9,000 fans immediately after
by an independent hire business. additional avenues to hire.
the 2007 floods.
We believe that there is huge potential for hirers wanting to supply
Emergency requirements
climate control and flood restoration products, and by crosshiring
“We can meet emergency requirements for critical situations such as from us they can offer a bigger range with minimum outlay.”
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live events, film productions, communications, health care
environments, offices and industrial premises, as well as climate
0800 374217 www.coolservices.co.uk
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