Water Treatment in Apartments, Condos and Residential Buildings
Effective chemical solutions to maintain residential building systems
Residential Building Management Has Unique Pressures
When you’re managing residential buildings, the continuity of your heating and cooling systems is critical. Service interruptions mean unhappy residents. Spiraling utility costs mean unhappy owners. You need the right water treatment chemicals for your apartment or condominium–and a partner who ensures your heating and cooling systems stay running and stay efficient.
You Need a Water Treatment Who Looks Long-term
Water Treatment Solutions for Apartments and Condominiums: Minimize Utility Spending Today & Maintenance Spending Tomorrow
As your trusted chemical partner, we understand the pressure you’re under to keep operating costs low and maintenance fees even lower. That’s why our customized water treatment solutions ensure your apartment and condominium water treatment systems operate at peak performance. Our programs optimize water and power usage today and reduce your maintenance costs tomorrow.
Solutions
Water Treatment in Residential Buildings
Your rely on your water systems every day to ensure a comfortable environment for your residents. Boilers, chillers, closed loops and cooling towers are critical components of your buildings. They’re key to building operation and resident satisfaction. You shouldn’t have to worry, wondering if your water systems are being properly treated.
That’s why, Guardian takes a holistic approach–combining industry-leading chemistry with responsive and knowledgeable service. This ensures your systems are economical and reliable. Our approach is grounded in decades of experience and supported by a data. Your health and safety and that of your residents is our top priority. Together we develop water management plans and provide the proper training for your building water systems. This approach prevents scale and corrosion, and ensures legionella is not an issue for your apartment or condominium building.
Whether you’re in Operations or Leadership, our water treatment processes provide the peace of mind you deserve.
Residential Sanitizing Solutions for Building Managers
In the right environment, bacteria, viruses and other contaminants can linger for days. Protect the health of residents and staff with Guardian’s residential sanitizing solutions. Our solutions include options to kill coronaviruses including the virus that may cause COVID-19. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
Descaling Solutions for Residential Buildings
The best residential water solutions and systems are perfectly balanced to minimize scale issues. However, once scale develops, it can impact the efficacy of your boilers, chillers, cooling towers, and heat exchangers. By treating this issue as soon as it’s noticed, you can prevent negative impacts on your systems and equipment. We provide the expertise and service to properly descale and optimize your system’s performance.
Stop Second-Guessing Your Water Treatment Program–Let Us Manage Your Apartment or Condominium Water Systems
Every building has its own challenges. Our chemistry and service ensure prolong the life of your system components and ensure efficient utility use. No matter the water system, we have a treatment for you.
At Guardian Chemicals, we take the stress out of residential building management. We work with you to find the best water treatment solution for your apartment or condominium building and focus on what matters most to you. On-site visits from our experts ensure your system is optimized for efficient water and power use. Best of all, when you need us, we’re only a phone call away. Contact us today to learn more about our water treatment solutions for residential buildings.
Programs for your systems: boiler water treatment, cooling tower treatment, closed loop and chiller treatment and DataGuard monitoring. Local service: Edmonton and Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Florida. Guide: cooling tower Legionella treatment.
Our Proactive Partnership Approach
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Residential Buildings
Heating boilers and the hydronic loops they serve, domestic hot water, any cooling tower or make-up air glycol loop, and in-floor heating where it is installed. In most residential buildings the domestic hot water system and the heating loops are the two that decide both comfort complaints and capital spending.
Usually corrosion in the distribution piping or a storage tank, showing at first draw after a period of no use. It is a symptom of an untreated or under-treated system rather than a fixture issue. Chasing it with flushing gives temporary relief; treating the cause is what stops it recurring.
They corrode and they foul. Oxygen permeates some tubing types, which produces iron oxide that settles in the loops and manifolds and reduces flow. The result is cold zones that get blamed on balancing when the actual problem is a loop full of sludge.
Predictably. A fixed annual service programme with scheduled testing and a written report gives the board something to budget against and something to show at an AGM. The alternative, reacting to failures, produces the special assessments boards are trying to avoid.
Yes, through scale on fixtures and appliances, higher energy cost on domestic hot water, and shortened life on hot water tanks and heat exchangers. In buildings where the corporation pays the utilities, the hardness shows up on the operating budget every month.
Where there is a cooling tower, or domestic hot water with low-use suites and long branch runs, yes. Buildings with high vacancy or seasonal occupancy carry more stagnation risk. A risk assessment tells you which controls are warranted for your specific configuration.
Testing on each system, dosing adjusted to result, a look at the equipment condition, and a written report left with the manager. The report matters as much as the chemistry, because it is what gets handed to the next manager or the next board.
Yes. Cleaning and descaling comes first, then treatment. Starting a treatment programme on a system full of existing deposits gives disappointing results and is one of the main reasons buildings conclude water treatment does not work.
Either, and often both. The corporation owns the asset and the management company runs the day-to-day, so the reporting has to serve both. We set it up so the record stays with the building when the manager changes.
Your Building
You just need the right chemistry and support you can count on.
