If your server room cooling failed at 6pm on a Friday, when would you find out?
IT downtime costs the average UK small business around £3,000 an hour. A room cooled by one air conditioning unit has one point of failure. We fit twin duty-standby cooling with automatic failover and 24/7 monitoring, so a failure never becomes an outage.
- Free heat load survey
- Same-day emergency response
- We work alongside your IT provider
What a Friday-night failure actually costs.
Set what an hour without your systems costs your business. Then compare a single unit nobody is watching with a monitored twin system.
The UK small business average is around £3,000 an hour, and higher where IT carries revenue directly.
Fails Friday 6pm. Nobody knows until Monday 8am.
Standby takes over in seconds. You and we get an alert.
Illustration only. Real downtime also depends on how long servers take to restart and recover once cooling is restored, which usually makes it worse. Average figure from HJS Technology, 2026.
“We already have air con in there.” That’s the problem.
Office air conditioning is built to keep people comfortable during the working day. A server room needs something else entirely.
Office comfort cooling
- Often cycles off out of hours, so the room bakes overnight
- One unit, no backup. One failure is one outage
- Not rated for a constant 24/7 heat load, so it wears out early
- Many units struggle to cool in cold weather
- Nobody is told when it stops
Proper server room cooling
- Runs continuously, 24 hours a day, all year
- Twin duty-standby with automatic failover
- Sized from a heat load survey for a constant load
- Low-ambient kit so it cools in winter too
- Monitored, with alerts to you and to us
Two units. One controller. No single point of failure.
Each unit is sized to cool the whole room on its own. That’s what makes it real redundancy, not two half-sized units.
They take turns
The controller alternates duty between the two units, so each does about half the running hours and both last longer.
Automatic failover
If the duty unit fails, the standby starts on its own. Nobody has to be there.
Assist on hot days
If the room temperature climbs past a set point, both units can run together through a heatwave.
Everyone gets told
A failure triggers an alert to you, your IT provider if you want, and us. We fix the failed unit while the other keeps you running.
You’ll know before your customers do.
24/7 temperature monitoring sends an alert the moment your room drifts out of range. Pair it with a maintenance contract and the cooling becomes a known annual cost, not an emergency bill.
Get a free quote- Temperature alertsBy text and email, day or night
- Alerts to your IT teamSo the right people know at once
- Planned servicingKeeps both units ready and warranties valid
- Same-day responseFrom our 24/7 emergency line
Not a data centre? Good. You’re who we’re for.
The big specialists chase data centres. Office air con firms treat your server room like an office. We look after the rooms in between.
The comms cupboard
One rack in a converted store room that grew without anyone planning its cooling.
The office server room
A few racks running the systems your whole business depends on, every hour of every day.
Several sites
Branch offices, shops or clinics with comms rooms to look after under one contract.
From survey to monitored and maintained
- 1
Free heat load survey
We measure the room, the IT load and what cools it today.
- 2
Design and fixed price
A written design sized to your load, with one fixed price.
- 3
Installed live
New units go in alongside the old, so the room stays cooled.
- 4
Monitored and maintained
Alerts switched on and servicing booked in.
Your clients’ kit, our cooling.
You see inside your clients’ server rooms and get the blame when they overheat. Partner with us for surveys, installs and monitoring alerts that come to you as well. We look after the room, you keep the client.
What IT and operations managers ask us first
Usually not. Office comfort units are built for occupied rooms during the working day. Many cycle off out of hours, are not rated for a constant 24/7 heat load, and give you no backup when they fail.
A small room with a constant heat load can reach shutdown temperatures in minutes once cooling stops, and failures cluster in heatwaves when units work hardest. Fine for years usually means lucky so far.
With one unit, one failure means one outage. With twin duty-standby, each unit can cool the room on its own, the standby takes over automatically, and the units alternate so each does about half the running hours.
Our emergency line is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and we aim to have an engineer on site the same day.
We work alongside your IT provider, not instead of them. They look after the equipment, we look after the environment it runs in, and we can send alerts to them as well as you.
Normally not. Where there is existing cooling we fit the new units alongside it and plan the changeover around you, so the room stays cooled throughout.
When it mattered
[Business type, e.g. accountancy firm, 2 racks]
- Before
- [e.g. One office wall unit, no backup, no alerts]
- What we fitted
- [e.g. Twin 5kW duty-standby with monitoring]
- What happened
- [e.g. Duty unit failed in July. Standby took over, we got the alert, fixed it next morning. Zero downtime.]
“[Short client quote.]” [Name, role]
One contractor for the whole site
The building with a server room also has offices to cool, a car park and a roof. One survey can cover the lot.
Find out how exposed you are before Friday does.
A free heat load survey shows exactly how your room is cooled today, where the single points of failure are, and what it would take to fix them.