5 Real Summertime HVAC Maintenance Tips

HVAC Maintenance Tips to Prepare Your Home For Summer

In this region, the cooling season is longer than our heating season. We experience more extreme heat and high humidity for longer periods, compared to the colder temps we experience in the mild, south Texas winter. Since warm weather is right around the corner, we are presenting some air conditioning tips that will help you stay comfortable and cool all summer long. These tips will also help your AC to run efficiently and avoid costly repairs. Take a look at these HVAC Maintenance tips:

This tip seems to appear in every HVAC article, and for very good reasons.

Set a notification on your calendar to change the filter regularly, perhaps at the beginning of each season–more frequently if needed. A clogged filter will cause stress on your AC system, resulting in higher cooling costs. It also decreases efficiency airflow, so it will blow a little less cold air than normal. Changing your filter is well worth the effort.

The condenser unit is the outdoor component of your air conditioner. One of its jobs is to take the heat from inside your house and disperse it outside. The heat is carried by refrigerant gas carried through copper tubing from your indoor cabinet to the condenser. When that gas reaches the condenser unit, it is very hot. The condenser walls contain a network of tubes and the tubes have very small aluminum fins radiating from the tubes. This network is designed to take the heat from the refrigerant gas and quickly disperse it. In the center of the condenser is a large fan pulling air very quickly through the fins to cool the gas.

Dispersing the heat is essential. Should the condenser overheat, it could lead to catastrophic failure. This is where you come in.

The thermostat is the temperature-activated switch on the wall of your home. Most people never learn to use their thermostats efficiently. Here are some suggestions for thermostat use that might make a difference.

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