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Board of County Commissioners
Grant County, Washington
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P O Box 37
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'54-2011 Ext -3276
Board of County Commissioners March 22 2020
Re: Emergent repair services for fairgrounds equipment
The commercial building at the fairgrounds has had degraded performance for some time. In the time that
Central Services took over maintenance at the fairgrounds we have monitored the inability for the Air
Handling units to cool the commercial building and noted poor performance and a very noisy set of
compressors as well as troubling vibrations from the units.
This year we planned on having them looked at before beginning the cooling season. The compressors
became extremely noisy as we began performing the spring maintenance in preparation for upcoming
events.
As I have recently had poor experiences with local HVAC companies, I asked the McKinstry service
team to look at the compressors, they performed a full diagnosis of the air handlers and provided a quote
for service. It was noted that at some point in the past (no one can seem to find out when or who) a stop
leak product was introduced into both air handlers which likely caused the failure of the compressors and
the condenser fan motors.
As we had the Crab feed expected within two weeks and the availability of parts considered difficult I
spoke with Commissioner Carter who agreed that we should perform this work and consider it an
emergent need. McKinstry provided a quote of $10,200 and while completing the work discovered further
issues as new parts were installed exposing other parts that needed to be replaced totaling $2,400 more.
The total cost of the work is $12,600 and basically, completely rebuilds both air handlers. It has also been
discovered that these units were installed improperly and that we cannot access the economizer sections
of either air handler which we need to be able to access. I have asked McKinstry to provide a price for
raising these units off the ground and onto stands, we would then need to repair improperly installed
ductwork so that we could access those areas of the air handler.
Respectfully
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Tom Gaines
Director, Grant County WA
Central Services Department
Tom Gaines
Director of Central Services
tgaines@grantcountywa.gov
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