5 ways to improve your facility and save money
From our own backgrounds in engineering, and as we work with facilities maintenance teams across the country, we’ve learned lots of ways to run a better, more cost-effective operation. Here are a few tips that can save money and help your equipment run at its best: Keep an eye on…
Tip of the Week: Set Up Seasonal Suspensions
As seasonal responsibilities change, off season logs can hang around overdue in your logbooks creating a nuisance that can slow down your staff. LogCheck’s seasonal suspensions allow you to pause any log(s) for a particular time period. Seasonal suspensions help clean up your logbooks and keep seasonally irrelevant logs from…
Tip of the Week: Email Reporting
Are you getting too many email reports from LogCheck? You could unsubscribe, but before you do we want to show you what you could be getting with a more customized email report. Many of our clients like to receive the information in our email reports very frequently, sometimes every few…
Tip Of The Week: Dependencies
After a brief hiatus, LogCheck is happy to present a new Tip of the Week! I’m Gary and I’ve had the pleasure of onboarding and supporting LogCheck clients for the past few years. I’ll be presenting a series of posts in the coming months that share some best practices and…
Shawn’s Tip Of The Week: Add Mins And Maxes To Any Numeric Log
If you were to take your body temperature right now, it would probably read within 1 degree of 98.6°F. If not, it’s time to go to the doctor. A temperature reading outside of your body’s normal operating range is usually an indicator of some sort of other problem. The same…
Shawn’s Tip Of The Week: Name Your Equipment
Ask anyone who loves blues music about “Lucille,” and they’ll instantly know that you’re talking about the late B.B. King’s signature guitars. His main piece of equipment, modeled after a $30 Gibson he saved from a burning building in 1949, has taken on a character and lore of its own….
A Great Logbook Is Your Strongest Training Tool
Shawn’s Tip Of The Week: Your logbook can make onboarding new staff much easier A well-made logbook is basically an operator’s manual for your building. Get yours in good enough shape, and it will quickly become your best training tool. We started training a new hire last week which got…
LogCheck Featured On Bright Power’s Blog!
Hey everyone, This week is a busy one at LogCheck, so instead of writing a normal Tip Of The Week, I wanted to share something from Bright Ideas, the blog run by our friends over at Bright Power. They recently featured us on their list of “Energy Tech Companies To…
The Hidden Danger Of Bird Droppings In Your HVAC System
TOTW – Remove bird droppings from your HVAC system, or risk dangerous health consequences It’s finally springtime. The sun is shining and flowers are blooming, but a hidden danger lies in the most common of inconveniences: bird droppings. Though they may seem like minor annoyances, bird feces, nests, and feathers…
Color Code Your Pipes
Correctly labeling your equipment is very important and will save you more headaches than you can imagine. One of the easiest ways to stay organized is to color-code your pipes (and repaint them if they’ve faded or aren’t consistent). Chief engineers and Resident Managers tell me about the importance of…
