Commercial air conditioning, designed around your building and fitted around your business

You deserve a building that works all year, a system sized for what your space is actually used for, and paperwork that stands up when somebody asks to see it.

Server rooms, factory processes and food businesses need their temperatures held steady too, and the same design care applies. Here is what you get.

F-Gas certified, and Elevate is registered with Refcom, one of the two registrations a company must hold to work on this equipment legally. Professional indemnity and tradesman insurance in place.

Elevate also designs and installs heat pumps and underfloor heating, so if your building needs more than one of those, one company designs all of it.

Nobody in this trade publishes commercial prices. Here are two of ours.

A medium-sized open-plan office, £13,000 to £14,000. One open space, three indoor units.

A large retail building in central Exeter, around £78,000. A substantial U-shaped shop floor with storerooms and offices below it, run from a single eighteen horsepower outdoor unit weighing about 320 kilos, feeding roughly fourteen indoor units.

For a house, an annual service is about efficiency and keeping the warranty valid. For a business it becomes a legal duty.

Once a system holds five tonnes of CO2 equivalent or more of refrigerant, it must be leak checked at set intervals and the checks recorded.

Five tonnes sounds enormous. It is about 2.4kg of R-410A, the refrigerant in a great many ordinary commercial systems, so buildings cross that line far more often than owners realise.

Fit an automatic leak detection system and those intervals double.

And the responsibility is yours, not your installer's. In law the duty sits with the operator: whoever exercises actual control over the equipment, in most buildings the owner or occupier.

Contractors share responsibility for stopping leaks, but getting the checks done and keeping the records sits with you. Leased buildings are the complicated case: it depends what the lease says.

If nobody has ever handed you a logbook for your building's air conditioning, sort that before somebody asks to see one.

We carry out compliance servicing and keep the documentation properly, on our own installations and on systems we have inherited.

We think Daikin build the best air conditioning equipment in the field, so we buy it from them directly rather than through a wholesaler. That relationship is formal: Elevate is a Daikin D1 partner, a status you earn by volume.

What it means for you is speed and answers. Your equipment is ordered straight from the people who made it, and when something needs chasing there is nobody in the middle to chase through.

That has counted for a great deal in 2026. In the summer, one of the world's largest air conditioning manufacturers moved a factory and it did not go smoothly.

Demand shifted to everyone else, stock levels followed, and industry lead times have run from a week to two months on equipment that normally arrives within days. Buying direct has kept our projects moving.

If you are planning a fit-out or a refurbishment, talk to us earlier than you think you need to and we will build the real lead times into your programme.