10 Things to Know About Central Air Conditioning Systems

10) HVAC Preventive Maintenance

Preventive maintenance is agreement between the homeowner and an HVAC Company. This agreement tells the HVAC Company to send the technician to your home and perform maintenance on it on a regular basis.

In my opinion, this is a win-win situation for both the homeowner and HVAC Company. If you are periodically servicing and checking your AC unit you will avoid system failures and damage over time and you will get the best usage and efficiency from your unit as well.

9) Understand You Central Air Conditioner Unit

By learning the basic information on your central air conditioning units, it will help you to understand it better. This could help reduce troubleshooting time for the tech and could save you money. Some technicians charge by the hour and others charge flat rate. Understanding your unit will reduce the amount of time a technician will need to spend on it.

By understand basic information about your unit, you will be able to pick up what is going on with it if there is a problem. You will be able to determine if it is running normal and if it may be operating weird.

8) Changing Your Central Air Conditioning Unit Filters

Are you in a preventive maintenance program with an HVAC Company? If you’re not, changing the filter once a month will dramatically help you save money on your bill by increasing its efficiency and also helping to clean the air in your home or office. We always like to tell our clients when you pay your electric bill, it is a reminder to change your filter as well.

7) Do It Yourself or Fix It Yourself Not The Best Idea for Central Air Conditioning Units

I don’t recommend that homeowners try to “Fix It Yourself or Do It Yourself” when it comes to AC units. In my opinion, there are many expertise involved like refrigeration, mechanical, electrical, and air flow so you could easily damage something or just waste your own time and money. You are more productive do other tasks, besides fixing central ac unit.

I believe changing your air conditioner filter, thermostat or cleaning the condenser unit is ok, but only if you know your level of skill.

6) Be Patient with Your Technician

We are human and there will always be problem we can’t fix. Try to be as helpful to the technician as you can by explaining the details of what is happening. Be patient, andwe fix it.

5) Pay Attention to Your Central Ac Unit

The basic skill to troubleshooting your Orlando heating and cooling system is to look, listen and touch. Don’t touch, if you not comfortable.

You will have to pay attention to your unit. If you believe or think there is something wrong with it, have someone look at it or ask question. It is better to look at it now rather than later.

4) Try Not To…

I know it is sometimes interesting to watch. However, try not to sneak behind our back and look over our shoulder, without us being aware of it. You could actually hurt us by mistake. Not from heart attack, but from electrocution probably and to prevent us from breaking any part, while we were in the process of fixing it.

3) Don’t Buy Central Air Conditioner Unit Online

I’m not trying to prevent you from save money. However, I’m saving you money by tell you not to buy it online.

Local HVAC contractors won’t touch or install a central ac unit you bought online. Plus, you won’t find any professional HVAC website that will teach how to install it.

When you hire an HVAC technician to fix your central air conditioning unit, you not paying them for labor, you’re paying them for their skill.

2) Watch for a company that outsources their service technicians and contractors

Why? Let’s say something happens within two to four years period. It could be anything that could cause large amount of money to fix. Who will take responsible for it?

Is it the company you hire or the subcontractor the company hires to install the central air conditioning unit for your house?

1) Do You Need Higher Efficient Central Ac Unit?

Central ac units and heat pumps use Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating as an energy measurement for the cooling mode. It determines how well central ac units and heat pump cool. It not accurate, but it does provide a measurement for the central ac units.

You don’t need higher energy efficiency unit, you just need highly experience contractor under his belt or her.

Some people will suggest you spend more money on highly efficient units, so it could save you money in the long term. I’m not sure about that. But, if you decide to have higher efficient central air unit, make sure to find experience contractor such as Del-Air with that.

Have a thing about seer rating. The number 18 or 23 SEER on central ac unit came from laboratory environment, it not from real world environment. There are so many things that effect seer rating.

The SEER number just tells you the maximum efficient the central air unit could be. It doesn’t mean you will receive the maximum SEER ratings.

You don’t necessarily always need an expensive higher efficiency unit; what you just need is the best Orlando HVAC company you can trust.

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Del-Air is Florida's Premier Heating, Air Conditioning, and Electrical Company. We are competitively priced and with the largest service fleet of professional technicians in Florida, providing 7 day, 24 hour emergency repair service, you can trust Del-Air to exceed your expectations. Del-Air is a Florida air conditioning company which services Orlando Air Conditioning, Tampa Air Conditioning, Jacksonville Air Conditioning, Melbourne Air Conditioning, Palm Beach Air Conditioning and Fort Myers Air Conditioning customers. Del-Air is an employee-owned company dedicated to our customers

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