Tunstall carries a lot of commercial property for its size, from glazed shopfronts on High Street to warehouse units off Brownhills Road. We install, maintain and repair across all of it, keep the F-Gas records straight, and carry £5 million public liability insurance.
Commercial HVAC design, supply, installation and maintenance for offices, retail, hospitality, salons and light-industrial premises.
We've installed and serviced air conditioning systems throughout Tunstall and the wider Staffordshire area — from terraced homes near The 1893 Clock Tower in Tower Square, with Tunstall's 1885 Town Hall behind it to large commercial premises across the ST6 postcodes.
Our Tunstall-based engineers regularly work across the following areas. If you don't see your town listed, get in touch — we cover most of Staffordshire.
Postcodes: ST6
Tunstall has several distinct commercial areas, and all of them are a short run from our Basford base. There is the retail park at the southern end of Scotia Road and the older shopping frontage along High Street and Tower Square, the indoor market at Butterfield Place, the trade counters and business park units further down Scotia Road towards Brownhills, the multi-let industrial and office estate at Newfield on High Street, and the modern warehouse and logistics units at Tunstall Arrow off James Brindley Way and on Brownhills Road. That is four or five quite different building types with four or five different cooling problems, and each of them fails in a different way. We install, maintain and repair across the lot.
We survey the premises, the existing plant if there is any, and the practical constraints: where plant can physically go, what the roof or rear elevation will take, how cores and cable routes get through the building, and what can be done without shutting you down. Planned work is booked in advance and can be phased, so the disruption is contained to one area at a time rather than the whole floor. The quote is fixed in writing against a defined scope, not a day rate and a shrug.
A glazed shopfront on High Street has a very different load profile to a first-floor office at Newfield or a mezzanine office in a unit off Brownhills Road. Ceiling cassettes and ducted units suit suspended ceilings and keep walls clear for stock and racking. Where several rooms or several tenancies share one plant position, VRF and multi-split systems let each space run independently on a single outdoor footprint. Comms rooms and server cupboards need cooling that runs all year, which is a different specification again to a comfort system on a timer, and continuity matters more there than running cost.
A PPM contract sets a schedule of visits across your assets, with filters, coils, drains, electrical checks and performance recorded every time. It also keeps you on the right side of the F-Gas regulations: systems holding five tonnes of CO2 equivalent or more, other than hermetically sealed systems below ten tonnes, must be leak checked at least once every twelve months with records kept, and the required frequency rises with charge size. We hold F-Gas Company Certification and our engineers are F-Gas Category 1.
Ad-hoc call-outs are typically attended within 24 to 48 hours, and contract customers take priority over ad-hoc work. That is the practical reason to have a contract in place before summer rather than paying reactive rates in July, when everyone who did not is calling at once. When you report a fault we will ask which unit, which building and what it is actually doing, so the engineer arrives with the history rather than starting cold. We carry £5 million public liability insurance and work to your site's access and safety requirements.
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Glazed frontages, doors held open in summer and lighting loads make retail one of the harder spaces to hold at a stable temperature. Ceiling cassettes usually beat wall units here because the air throw is better and the walls stay usable for stock and display. Installation work can be programmed in stages if it is booked in advance.
On a multi-let estate the plant position is often shared and the lease decides who is responsible for what. We work with tenants, landlords and managing agents, and we will say plainly whether a fault sits with the demised system or with the base build before anyone starts arguing about who receives the invoice.
High bays, roller shutters and heat-producing equipment make a whole warehouse a poor candidate for comfort cooling. The offices, trade counter and mess areas inside the unit are usually the right target, cooled independently of the shed. Siting outdoor plant where it will not be struck by a forklift or blocked in by pallets matters more than most people expect.
Equipment does not care what the weather is doing outside. A comms room needs year-round cooling, a sensible low-limit setting and, where the room matters to the business, a plan for what happens when the single unit serving it fails. We can price resilience options as part of the survey rather than after the first failure.
We do not price a maintenance contract per unit from a phone call. The survey produces an asset register: what is installed, where it is, what it holds and what condition it is in. The contract is quoted against that, and every visit is recorded against each asset, which is the documentation an inspector, an auditor or an insurer asks for when they want to see that a system has actually been maintained rather than merely mentioned. It also means you are not paying for visits to units that no longer exist.
Yes. We regularly carry out evening, weekend and overnight installations for retail, hospitality and office premises in Tunstall — particularly along the high street and main commercial parks.
Yes — we offer flexible 6-monthly or annual planned maintenance contracts with priority response for contract customers. Most commercial systems should be serviced at least once a year to maintain manufacturer warranty.
Yes — we cover Tunstall and the wider Staffordshire area, including Goldenhill, Sandyford, Newfield and Pitts Hill, Great Chell, Little Chell, Chell Heath, Fegg Hayes, Brownhills, Burslem. We operate within a 50-mile radius of Stoke-on-Trent, so same-day or next-day surveys are usually available.
Yes. All Airtastic engineers are F-Gas (Category 1) certified, fully insured and trained on the major manufacturers including Daikin, Mitsubishi, Samsung, LG, Fujitsu and Haier.
All of it. Tunstall and the areas around it sit across three ST6 postcode sectors. ST6 5 covers the north and west of the town centre plus Goldenhill, Sandyford and the Newfield estate. ST6 6 covers the east and south of the centre plus Pitts Hill, Great Chell, Little Chell, Chell Heath, Fegg Hayes and Turnhurst. ST6 4 covers the south-western fringe along Brownhills Road and the lower Scotia Road corridor.
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