Keep Your Air-Con Unit Running Trouble Free

It takes twenty minutes to do a basic upkeep and is more than worth the effort in the rewards that it brings. Make an effort to maintain your heat pump properly and clean the air filters, and you’ll harvest the benefits that your heat pump has to give.

Air con Upkeep The Simple Way: 
The very first thing you’ll wish to do is switch off the power to your heat pump. Turn the turn on your out of doors unit to off. Your safety should come first.

Keeping up the Outdoor Unit: 
While at the outside unit, check for any weeds that are attempting to grow around your heat pump. Take away the weeds and any other obstructions to the air flow of your out of doors unit. Now check the back of the out of doors unit where the heat exchanging coil is found. Gradually remove any pet hair, leaves or other items that might scale back the airflow. If the coil is especially filthy, you’ll need the brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner. Run the vacuum brush down the heat exchanger coils in the same direction the fans run. This may remove the majority of the mud and improve the air flow and potency of your heat pump. Eventually, wipe down the case and remove any dust from the panels. Leave the electric isolating switch in the OFF position till you have finished the indoor unit upkeep.

Maintaining the Indoor Unit: 
Firstly, lift open the cover and remove the air filters from your heat pump. There are two main types of filter. The larger filters are a fine mesh type which traps the dust and dirt. The smaller rectangular shaped ones are the ones which break down allergens and trap other particulates. Give the filters a quick vacuum with the brush attachment. This should be done to all of the filters, and on both sides. The smaller filters can then be set to the one hand.

With the bigger mesh filters, take them to the washing sink and give them a delicate spray with an antibacterial cleaning solution. Wash them well on each side with warm water and permit to dry for five to ten minutes. Check the coil on your indoor unit. This is found underneath where the filters were installed. If it’s all blocked up with dust, run your vacuum cleaner with the brush attachment over it softly in the same direction the fans run.

Wipe off any dust from within the case cover and on air inlet and outlet grilles. Now spray fabric with a mild overall purpose kitchen cleaner and wipe down the case on your heat pump. By the point you’ve finished cleaning your indoor unit, the filters should now be dry and can now get replaced. Put the filters in place and close the case. Your indoor upkeep is now complete, and you can turn the electrical isolating switch back to the ON position and enjoy your healthy, clean, air from your heat pump once more.

Why Maintenance is Important: 
Regular air conditioning maintenance is essential to the efficient running of your system. If you fail to clean the filters and the coils are dirty, your heat pump can develop numerous faults and will cease to run correctly. Not only can it cause damage to your heat pump, but it is also unhygienic as the dirt build up on the moist soil can become a breeding ground for bacteria. Look for your heat pump and enjoy the benefits it has to offer. 

Cut Costs And Do Your Own Air Conditioning Maintenance:
Our family has been in the air conditioning business for over 30 years. We have spent much of that time servicing residential A/C units in the Houston area one of most demanding environments for these units. One thing we see every year is people spending a fortune to repair or replace an A/C units because they failed to do simple maintenance.

Here are a some things that you can do to save yourself a lot of money and to keep your Aircon unit running more efficiently.
1 . Replace your air filter at least once a month and more often if you have pets. 
Our family tends to replace our A/C filters with standard filters and not the high dollar filters that are supposed to catch every single spec of dust. Like most of you, our air conditioning unit is older and installing a filter with a tight weave will put too high of a load on our older A/C unit.

2 . Clean your unit’s condenser ( the element that sits outside your home ) all the time. 
Here we are referring to the coils of the condenser. If you look within the condenser, you’ll see the coils – something that is like a car’s radiator. If the coil is covered with leaves or mud, your system will lose much of its potency. Worse yet, this additional load will cost more cash via higher cooling bills and extra money in blown parts. Having an unclean condenser could cause your air-conditioning unit to run under a heavier load that would lead to Freon leaks and or damaged parts. Naturally, these damaged parts may include a broken compressor. For those with insurance programs that should cover your A / C wants to keep this under consideration: Insurance corporations may deny your claim if your unit does not seem to have received basic upkeep ( like a regular cleaning ) that’s how vital basic upkeep is to your aircon unit’s longevity.

3 . Insulate.
You have invested a great deals of money on an air conditioning unit for your home now make sure that cool air does not escape or that the heat does not come in. At one business we visited the customer complained that the unit was not up to par. We did an inspection and found that the ducts were releasing a lot of the cold air into the space between the ceiling tiles and the ceiling. The doors to the outside also had big cracks that were allowing cold air to escape. And finally, when we touched the perimeter walls they were hot – they had no insulation at all.

These are all honest things you may do to keep your air conditionings units running better. Regardless of if you follow these straightforward steps, our industry still commands you have a pro come out and check your air-conditionings units every year. The HVAC pro will also bother to go up to your loft to check the evaporator and the air con unit’s drain pan.