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THE BENEFITS OF PLANNED PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE W
hether you’re in the hospitality, education, care or construction
industry, to name but a few, when it comes to Planned and Preventative Maintenance (PPM) methods vital in helping Facilities Managers avoid disruptions in service, one of the key areas to consider is drainage… If a business’ drainage isn’t maintained regularly by trained specialists, it has the potential to cause major disruptions at some point in the future, and this will typically happen when you least want it to! This is why leading commercial drainage maintenance and repair company Metro Rod, always recommend PPM schedules for their clients, to enable them to guard against any unexpected incidents. Metro Rod Managing Director, Peter
Molloy, explains, “No matter the industry, every building has drainage requirements in one form or another. Commercial kitchens in particular benefit from PPM to control fat and grease related drainage problems. Congealed fats can account for as much as 95% of drain blockages where food waste is involved, so it is important to have a proper plan in place to ensure that minimal fat and grease goes down the drain and doesn’t end up contributing to
any ‘fatbergs’ we’ve been hearing so much about in the news lately! “Obviously, another particularly important drainage area is the safe removal of sewage and ensuring hygienic bathroom facilities. Uric scale, for example, can build up quickly in pipes of washrooms with heavy footfall – causing a less than desirable odour! Effective PPM methods are therefore key, as disruptions in this area could even result in short term closure and ultimately substantial loss in business, not to mention damage to a company’s reputation! “We have many PPM contracts with national companies such as Mitie and Sodexo. As a rough guide, we’d suggest PPM visits for urinals every 3 months, grease traps every 3 to 6 months and drains approximately every 12 months. Drain maintenance is largely dependent on the frequency of cleaning urinals and grease traps though, because the grease and scale is going to settle out somewhere in the system, and the longer between PPM intervals the further downstream the problem occurs and the greater the magnitude! “Whichever drainage PPM company you
housands of owners of empty commercial properties across the UK are shelling out millions of pounds on empty property rates every year.
But one specialist UK firm insists that those same property owners should be keeping the bulk of the money in their own pockets! “There is nothing more galling than having to pay rates on a property that lies empty,” said a senior spokesperson at Crusader Empty Property Rates Avoidance (
www.crusader-epra.com).
“It is a massive drain on resources, particularly given the current economic climate and the on-going struggle to find tenants for empty properties. Therefore, it is imperative that property owners discover just what can be done to keep the burden of empty property rates to an absolute minimum.”
Crusader offers rates saving schemes that cover empty properties in England and Wales, providing bespoke solutions based on years of experience. “For anyone sitting on an empty
property, there are solutions that can be put in place to avoid the payment of empty
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FORTUNES TO BE SAVED ON EMPTY PROPERTY RATES T
decide to go with, they should offer a free initial site visit and inspection, and then work with you to tailor a maintenance programme to suit your needs.” Concludes Peter.
Metro Rod have 30+ years’ experience and over 40 depots nationwide who operate 24/7, 365 days of the year, so no matter when the issue arises, they can be on site within hours - ensuring as little disruption as possible for customers. All engineers are fully DBS checked and professionally trained in all aspects of drainage repair and maintenance.
property rates,” added the spokesperson. “We have more than a decade of experience in this complex field; a deep understanding of property rating legislation and how to reduce liability on empty properties.” By way of example, a property owner with an empty warehouse with annual rates payable of £148,000 could achieve an 88% annual saving. That equates to a weekly saving of £2,505. It isn’t just the large industrial units that stand to benefit, smaller retail and office properties qualify too. “Annual savings upwards of 80% are very common across all types of properties and that figure can rise as high as 93%,” said the spokesperson.
So, if you are a property owner paying empty property rates, simply get in touch with the Crusader team to start the process and make serious and completely legal savings.”
The Crusader Empty Property Rates
Avoidance team can be contacted via:
enquiries@crusader-epra.com or by calling 01772 369166.
Please see Crusader advertisement on the inside cover of this issue.
ith e commerce thriving, warehouse and light industrial properties remain in demand so when Berrys’ commercial property team was asked to help a client with property investment this was the way to go. “We were brought in to advise a longstanding rural corporate client who wanted to diversify property income for their pension fund,” explained Simon Parsons, head of commercial agency at Berrys. After talking through their requirements and weighing up various options, we decided that investment into commercial property was the way forward.” Berrys prepared a full property
PROPERTY INVESTMENT W
investment report, a financial appraisal with income forecasts, cash flows and budgets and set about finding some commercial property that would provide a good return and was not too far away from the investor in Cambridgeshire. Their search led them to two modern light industrial units on a business park in Huntington which were subsequently purchased with vacant possession on behalf of the client. “Berrys provided the initial commercial
property investment advice and then later, with the help of a local letting agent, marketed the units to let,” said Simon.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MONTHLY 2018
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