Services & rates
The transition, itemized.
The phase-down is regulation with a calendar, and a calendar is the one thing a quote cannot blur. These are the numbers: equipment, reclaim, detection, permit, crane day — with the rebate the utility pays on early A2L conversions subtracted on the invoice, not promised in a footnote.
Refrigerant phase-down audit$340
Per building: what you own, what it holds, what it costs to keep
R-410A reclaim & documentationfrom $180 per system
Recovered to the gram, certificates filed to your records
A2L conversion, ducted splitfrom $9,800
R-32 or R-454B equipment, detection and mitigation to code
A2L conversion, rooftop package unitfrom $14,400
R-454B unit, leak detection interlocked, crane day included
Leak detection retrofitfrom $1,250
Fixed sensors and interlocks for machine rooms and risers
Refrigerant stewardship contract$88/mo per site
Quarterly leak survey, logbook kept audit-ready
THE CALENDAR, IN ONE LINE: R-410A equipment manufacture has ended; the charge to service it shrinks every year; A2L refrigerants — R-32 and R-454B — are the systems being made, warrantied and rebated now. The audit exists so your building meets that calendar on purpose.
Services
What the company actually does
01
The phase-down audit
Every system inventoried — refrigerant, charge size, age, leak history, criticality to the building — and ranked into a replacement schedule that spreads the money across the years the regulation actually allows. One document your accountant and your insurer will both ask for by name.
02
Reclaim, done properly
Recovery to the gram on scales certified quarterly, reclaimed through the approved chain, and the certificates filed where an inspector — or a future buyer’s lawyer — will look. Nobody inherits a mystery cylinder from this company.
03
A2L systems, engineered in
R-32 and R-454B are mildly flammable by design and the code treats them accordingly: detection, ventilation and mitigation engineered into the design rather than bolted on after the inspection fails. SEER2 and HSPF2 ratings on every line, because the running cost is part of the compliance story.
04
Chillers, racks & the big charges
The Brickkiln Yards machine rooms, the grocery racks, the chiller plant at the Coalmont creamery — where the charge is measured in tonnes, the leak rate is a budget line, and the stewardship contract keeps the logbook one page ahead of the audit.
Recent work
From the transition book
How it goes
One building through the transition
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Week one
The audit
Every system opened in the logbook: nameplate, charge, age, leak history, what the building does without it. The refrigerant story of the property on one table.
Week two
The schedule
Three paces — urgent, steady, ride-it-out — each priced, each dated against the regulation’s actual deadlines and the utility’s rebate windows. You choose the pace; the calendar does the arithmetic.
The season
The first conversions
A2L systems engineered, detected and commissioned to code, the old charge reclaimed under tagged scales. The building never loses cooling it depends on to a switchover.
Every quarter
The stewardship visit
Leak survey, logbook, sensors calibrated. The document an inspector asks for is already three-ring-bound and one page ahead of them.
Year by year
The plan executes
Replacements land in the order the audit ranked them — rebate windows caught, emergencies absorbed, no capital surprise larger than the one you signed for.
The end state
R-410A free
A building whose every certificate, reclaim record and commissioning sheet lives in one binder — the compliance story finished before anyone asks for it.
Our property manager had three quotes, three contradictory stories about what “the refrigerant thing” meant, and a lot of urgency for sale. Blue Current audited first: two units to convert now, nine to ride to end-of-life, one the rebate window would pay to replace early. The panic was a spreadsheet problem the whole time — it just needed someone who knew the calendar.
The reclaim certificates were the surprise. Our buyer’s environmental review asked for five years of refrigerant records, and we handed over a binder — grams, dates, chain of custody. The review closed in a day and the buyer’s agent sounded genuinely disappointed.
They converted our rooftop units over two weekends with the dining room never dark. The A2L detection passed the mechanical inspection first visit — the inspector said it was the third clean one he had seen, and the other two were also theirs.
The stewardship logbook pays for itself at the insurance renewal. Our broker stops asking about the machine room now; the underwriter reads the quarterly survey and moves on. Cheaper premium, quieter year.
Asked with the binder open
Do I have to replace my R-410A system right now?
Almost certainly not — and our audit says so in about seven cases out of ten. Existing equipment can be serviced while the charge supply lasts; what has ended is its manufacture. The audit ranks what to convert, what to keep and what the rebate windows argue for, so the money moves on a schedule instead of a rumour.
What are A2L refrigerants, practically?
R-32 and R-454B — the replacements the industry has standardized on: lower global-warming potential, slightly flammable by classification, and governed by real rules for detection and mitigation. Our installations engineer those rules in from the first drawing, which is why ours pass inspection the first time.
Why does reclaim documentation matter to me?
Because refrigerant accountability is becoming what asbestos documentation became: a thing sale, insurance and audit processes ask for by name. Grams recovered, chain of custody, dates — it costs nothing to do properly at the time and is nearly impossible to reconstruct later.
We run a small machine room, not a portfolio. Too small?
Not at all — the audit is priced per building and pays for itself in the first replaced unit caught inside a rebate window. Roughly half our stewardship contracts are single-site: one machine room, one logbook, one inspection that no longer surprises anyone.
What does SEER2 and HSPF2 have to do with compliance?
They are the efficiency yardsticks the new equipment is rated under, and they are how a conversion pays back beyond the rebate. Every line we quote carries them, with the operating-cost delta against your old units estimated in the same table — regulation on one axis, arithmetic on the other, both printed.
Blue Current Refrigerant Co. · 9 Brickkiln Yards · reclaim@bluecurrent.example
The calendar is not going to negotiate.
Every month of delay is a decision made by default. The audit costs less than one rushed replacement and turns the regulation back into a schedule you control.