Friday, February 28, 2014

Continuation on Preventive Maintanence of your Air Conditioning Unit

AC Breeze Cooling and Heating has been gearing up for the summer months when everything gets crazy for us.  Also because the boom of home building was between 8-10 years ago now, many of these homes are in need of new air conditioning units. 

You may be in a position on needing a new unit or you may have just purchased a new unit or if your lucky, you units are still plugging away.  In any of these cases you need to be prudent in your caring for your air conditioning system.  At least twice a year, your system should be serviced.  We have been talking about what is involved in a service and how important each component is.  We already talked about filters, cleaning the coils, oiling motors and tightening all electrical wiring and screws.  Today we want to talk about checking the Freon levels.  As a system sits for any length of time, some Freon is lost due to tiny leaks in the fittings or even a coil might have a small leak.  technically the system is a closed unit so therefore if the Freon is low there must be a leak.  Not every leak needs to be leak checked.  The cost to seek a leak out maybe prohibitive if just topping off the Freon is a simple and inexpensive alternative.  Your unit came with either a 5 or some even a 10 year warranty so if you are the original purchaser you should call the company that installed it so they can take care of the problem for you for less as you will only be responsible for the labor if it indeed is still under warranty.

If you are being told that a leaky coil is a culprit for you, the system should be freezing.  If that is the case, it's time to see what is causing the leak and depending on how bad the leak is and how old your system is and how well it has been taken care of, to determine the best course of action to take.

I hope this series is helping you understand your system and why a bi-annual service is so critical to the overall health and life of the system.  Next time we will continue with our series of what to expect when we come to do a bi-annual service on your Air conditioning system.

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