Commercial air conditioning in Maidstone
We fit commercial air conditioning for shops, restaurants, salons, gyms and surgeries in Maidstone and across mid Kent. Customers and staff stay comfortable, and equipment that gives off heat stops turning the room into an oven. Systems are planned around your trading hours, your landlord and the rules for the building.
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Name, number and postcode are all we need. We phone you back.
- Planned around trading hours
- Sized for customers and kit
- Landlord and planning checks
Why customer-facing spaces are different
Shops and restaurants have heat loads that come and go. A door standing open all day, a full dining room at eight o'clock, the lamps in a salon or hot equipment in a kitchen can all outrun a system sized on floor area alone. Tell us how the space is really used on its busiest day, because that is the day it has to work.
Town centres and older buildings
Maidstone town centre has more than a million square feet of shops and many older buildings above them. The town centre and the All Saints area are conservation areas, and a shopfront wall facing the street is rarely the right place for plant. Rear yards, flat roofs and plant areas are the usual answers, and pipes may need to run through a floor above that belongs to someone else. On a listed building, consent comes first.
Permissions to check before you book
- Your landlord. Many commercial leases require consent for external plant and for new holes in walls.
- Planning. The permitted development rules for heat pumps on homes do not cover business premises in the same way, so ask the council's planning team before ordering.
- Neighbours. Maidstone Borough Council investigates complaints about noise from businesses, so an outdoor unit near flats above or behind needs careful thought.
Keeping the system running
A dirty filter in a salon or a greasy one near a kitchen quickly cuts performance, so these systems need more frequent cleaning than an office. Where a building's air conditioning adds up to more than 12kW, it also needs an energy inspection at least every five years, and larger systems have legal leak-check duties. See air conditioning servicing for what a service covers.
Common questions
Can the work be done outside trading hours?
Tell us your hours and we will plan around them as far as we can. Ask about this at the survey, because it affects the quote.
Can you cool a commercial kitchen?
A kitchen is a special case, because grease and the extract system both affect what will work. Tell us about your extract and cooking equipment so we can say whether a standard system is suitable.
Who is responsible for the energy inspection?
Whoever controls the system, usually the owner or the occupier, and where a servicing company is named as controller the landlord or occupier still has a duty to make sure it happens.
Sources
Have these to hand
A quote is quicker when we know a little about the building.
- Postcode and type of property
- The rooms, and their rough size
- Which way the windows face
- Where an outdoor unit might go
- Whether it is listed or in a conservation area
Commercial air conditioning across mid Kent
We provide commercial air conditioning in Maidstone and the towns around it. Start with air conditioning in Maidstone for everything we do, or choose your town for local buildings and planning notes.
Useful reading
Do you need planning permission for air conditioning?
Permitted development, noise limits and Maidstone's conservation areas.
F-gas rules: what to check about your installer
The certificates to ask for, leak-check duties and the 2025 refrigerant ban.
How much does air conditioning cost?
Installation, electrics, servicing and running costs, with the sums shown.
Related services
Office air conditioning
Wall, ceiling and multi-split systems for working floors.
Server room cooling
All-year cooling for server cupboards and comms rooms.
Also from Maidstone Air Conditioning
Air conditioning installation
From the survey to the handover: what fitting a split system involves.
Home air conditioning
Bedrooms, loft rooms, living rooms and home offices.
Air-to-air heat pumps
Winter heating and summer cooling from one system, with no radiators.
Multi-split air conditioning
One outdoor unit serving several rooms, each with its own control.
Conservatory and garden room air conditioning
Rooms that are too hot in summer and too cold in winter.
Air conditioning servicing
Cleaning, checks and leak-test records for home and business systems.
Air conditioning repairs
Water leaks, weak cooling, fault codes and units that will not start.
Ask for a quote
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