It is estimated that more that 70% of all home air conditioning repair calls are AC maintenance related.
Home AC Repair Calls Can Be Largely Prevented
It is estimated that more that 70% of all home AC repair calls made during the summer are AC maintenance related. Getting everything out of your air conditioning system includes you putting in your maintenance work to make sure the AC can take care of your home all summer long. After reading this blog post and putting in a little work you should be over 70% better prepared to stress your air conditioning system to the max when it is above 100 degrees in the TX summer. So stay with us while we describe ways to prevent your air conditioning system from going bad prior to it needing to.
Heat Transfer And Air Movement
Your unit transfers heat from inside the building to outside. When your in the business of heat transfer with air, you will always have a filtration system, where you don’t have a filter you will be required to clean it in regular intervals, usually once a year minimum. The inside air conditioning unit is very hard and expensive to clean and will take the assistance of a licensed professional air conditioning repair company, so you have a filter. The outside unit is a lot easier to clean with a water hose so usually we do not have a filter on our outside air conditioning unit. Getting your inside unit clean is a matter of keeping it from getting dirty. Change the filter regularly which is usually once a month. As for the outside unit, most homeowners are not aware but cleaning the outside unit is singlehandedly the most important thing to do to increase the lifespan of your homes air conditioning system.
Getting Your Outside Air Conditioning Unit Clean
Cleaning your outside air conditioning unit is not very hard to do correctly, it is also not hard to do wrong and completely total the unit and need a new one. Getting your water hose ready and turn off the unit at the main breaker panel or the disconnect. After the unit is off you can just get your water hose usually on the full setting and just start washing the vertical sides of the unit. More water and less water pressure, cleaning solution made just for this helps release the dirt preventing damage from too much water pressure. If the unit has a dense hail guard pointing down you will have to point the water spray upwards more and go in an up and down motion. As you start keep an eye to make sure you are not damaging the delicate fins of metal by bending them at all. Getting them bent as you pass over them means you need to reduce the water pressure. Cleaning most outside air conditioning systems at residential homes is usually a 15 to 20 minute job. It just takes a little bit of time to work off the dirt without using too much pressure being in a rush. Definitely never use a pressure washer. Cleaning your unit at least once a year in the spring before you get to the hot days that require the unit to come on is a great time to clean it. Check your air conditioning unit outside mid summer to make sure that it is not too dirty some units must be cleaned more than once a year.
