Comments on: Central Air Conditioning Maintenance & Cleaning

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:28:02 +0000

I think all of the previous explainations have been great. Thanks a lot.

By: Ifeoma Uchechukwu

Ifeoma Uchechukwu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:07:28 +0000

The lesson was good but it would have been better, if the functions of each part of the AC was stated and explained.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:03:48 +0000

Those are great tips unless you have a geothermal system. Then the only maintenace is changing filters.

By: Rafter Tales

Rafter Tales — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:01:18 +0000

Thanks for the great tips Kevin; always great to see what advice a pro has to offer. If you’d be interested in writing a guest article on the site please contact us.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:37:55 +0000

This is really a great list of things to do when it comes to air conditioning maintenance and getting the most out of your hvac equipment. I do want to stress that the one component that costs you the most in energy consumption is your indoor blower motor. Your indoor fan works in summer and winter and can get coated with lint and other materials on the blower wheel blades. Here is an important note, the only way a service technician can clean those blades is to pull the entire blower housing out of your furnace or air handler and unfortunately you see a lot of techs just stick a vacuum in there for show and aren’t really doing anything useful. That’s why I’m not afraid to charge my customers a little more because it allows me to take the time to do a better job. In addition to maintenance there are some excellent developments in green building technologies like solar power, geothermal and even as you mentioned landscaping can play a significant roll in energy savings. There’s some really cool green building design going on for example, in commercial hvac applications you can reduce blower motor energy consumption by decreasing a systems duct size in conjunction with a variable speed motor that runs slower and uses 20 to 30% less energy and remember that thing is running almost all year round, this is a significant savings for commercial and residential buildings especially when you scale it to high rises and skyscrapers that are found in downtown Chicago for instance. I’ve ranted on probably long enough but I did enjoy your post, keep up the good work and it’s a great site!

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