The secret to keeping your heating and cooling environment in your home or office is preventative HVAC maintenance. It’s essential to maintain your HVAC system by remembering to do preventative repair for each season. If you have an HVAC system that keeps your home, office, or business the right temperature year around it’s important to keep in mind the different seasons when inspecting your HVAC to make sure it will work for the season.
There are a lot of things to consider when it comes to your HVAC unit, including:
- the age of the system
- whether it currently works to capacity
- the last time you changed your air filter and much more.
If your system is not keeping your home or business at a comfortable temperature, it’s time to call in a professional who will know what to look for.
Spring HVAC Maintenance
When the first days of spring are upon you, it’s time to check that your air conditioning system is ready for the season. This involves an air conditioning tune-up. The HVAC professional will ensure that your air conditioning is in good working order before the hottest days of the summer are upon you. While Spring may not seem like the right time to be thinking about hot summer days, you want to ensure your system is working efficiently before it’s needed. If you wait until the height of the busy summer season, you run the risk of having to wait for a service call.
Summer HVAC Maintenance
In the summer season, when your air conditioning system is likely running 24/7, it’s essential to change the filter monthly, especially if someone in your home or office suffers from allergies. At the very least, your filter should be replaced after Spring, moving into summer. Check that air flow is correct, tighten any electrical connections, and monitor refrigerant pressure. Don’t forget to clean your condensate drain.
Fall HVAC Maintenance
When fall is upon us it’s time to get another tune-up but this time with heating your home or business in mind. Check thermostat calibration, clean the furnace burner assembly, and check again for proper air flow and change the filter. Both Spring and Fall are high allergy times, and you want to remove allergens that can make your family, employees, or customers uncomfortable. Also, be sure to measure the temperature difference between supply air and return air.
Winter HVAC Maintenance
Now that winter is upon us, again, ensure that you’ve changed all filters, tightened all electrical components and lubricated all moving parts. Double check equipment condition area and clearance of debris to avoid furnace fires. A lot of HVAC units are in closets that also end up as storage repositories, ensure that there is plenty of clearance to prevent fire hazards.
Every season pay attention to whether or not your system is making noises that it shouldn’t, whether there are smells that you don’t want there and other issues that can affect performance. Artcool Systems offers packages for Winter and Summer tune-ups to help make the most out of your HVAC system, keeping you and your family, employees, or customers cool or warm as the case may be. It’s important to have regular maintenance before problems begin and alert your HVAC Service professional to any differences that you’ve noticed in your HVAC’s performance. Contact Artcool Systems to schedule your HVAC Maintenance today!
