Get Back In Your Cage

In response to customers’ heightened sense of insecurity coupled with the real increase in the incidence of copper theft, Andrews Air Conditioning is offering a wide range of added-value security devices.

These include ‘active’ systems like anti-tamper alarms and  ‘passive’ systems such as anti-vandal condenser cages, pipework protection covers and non-copper pipework.

Commenting on the increasing risk of copper pipework theft from air conditioning systems, Alasdair McLean, National Projects Manager for Andrews Air Conditioning noted,  ‘Recent events show that we all share the responsibility to protect ourselves and our property from theft rather than relying on an overstretched police service’.

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Refrigerant Handling Is Serious Business

On the 4th July 2011 it became a criminal offence for anyone to install, remove or handle refrigerant gases, such as those used in air conditioning equipment, unless they hold the latest F-Gas Safe Handling qualifications.  Any company offering these services must hold a valid Company Qualification Certificate from an independent accreditation body such as REFCOM.

REFCOM estimates that over half the air conditioning and refrigeration companies in the UK have not yet satisfied these statutory requirements.

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