Preventative maintenance for air conditioning is an important part of ensuring they work for the long term. No matter the type of unit or its application, preventative maintenance provides a variety of health benefits to your equipment to help it run smoothly for as long as it’s capable of running. And, with a team of experts behind your preventative procedures, you ensure professional work and upkeep.
Residential Plumbing, Heating & Cooling helps homeowners tackle their preventative maintenance needs. As the weather starts warming more, air conditioning also starts to become essential to comfortable home living. Our team stands at the ready to help homeowners check their HVAC for proper health before our hottest months.
Why preventative maintenance for air conditioning is important
Beyond simply ensuring your equipment works as intended, preventative maintenance provides a variety of other benefits to consider. Rather than waiting for a unit to run to failure, you can instead gain benefits like:
- Lower energy costs – A system that receives maintenance usually runs better than one that has faced neglect. Whether the system needs cleaning or worn parts, when it receives maintenance and works better than before and it uses less energy to function. This saves the homeowner on energy bills.
- Longer lasting hardware – When receiving proper maintenance, the lifespan of air conditioning units increases. Similar to saving energy, parts that aren’t running harder than they need to don’t overwork themselves. The easiest way to wear out component parts of any piece of equipment is stressing them to the point of failure. Preventative maintenance for air conditioning helps avoid this.
- Reduce & Avoid Repairs – By regularly servicing air conditioning, you avoid a higher repairs cost or avoid repairs altogether. The longer that a problem lasts within HVAC equipment, the more damage it may do to the overall system. Maintenance from a professional works to find problems early to avoid a larger bill for repairs or replacement of parts.
- Cleaner Air – When air conditioning parts either need replacing or a tune-up, this may increase air quality in the home. Every part of HVAC equipment benefits from preventative maintenance. So, the filtration system of the equipment does as well. Especially with spring pollen currently in the air, preventative maintenance helps to ensure your home stays free of pollutants.
What kinds of preventative maintenance is done?
Want to know what types of things a preventative maintenance crew works on? Air conditioning units have a variety of components that need attention throughout their lifespan. So, that means each needs different work done each spring to ensure they work for summer. Some of the duties preventative maintenance for air conditioning provides include:
- Filter replacement
- Measuring refrigerant
- Clearing debris left from fall
- Checking accuracy of thermostat
- Cleaning air ducts
- Oiling component parts
- And much more!
Whatever maintenance your air conditioning might eventually need, preventative work helps to minimize the impact of its parts running into problems. With experienced technicians at the ready, Residential Plumbing, Heating & Cooling prides itself as a local and dependable source of preventative maintenance for homeowners and their air conditioning this spring and summer. Give us a call today to get a free estimate!
