Annual Air Conditioning Maintenance

Annual Air Conditioning Maintenance

Yearly Air Conditioning Maintenance Matters

There has been some question from my customers in the past few months about heating and air conditioning Cleanings and their importance to the proper operation of the equipment. I wanted to write this article to discuss a few important issues that can occur in absence of the annual maintenance. There are two important cleanings that need to be performed by a qualified heating and air conditioning company to ensure safety and proper system operation. For the sake of this article we will split up the cleanings into two separate articles (furnace cleaning and air conditioning cleaning) and only discuss one at a time.

Air Conditioning Clean and Check

After an entire winter of being dormant and not in use, an air conditioning system has a big job at task upon first starting up for the summer. The way an air conditioning condensing unit (outside unit) works is by changing the state of the refrigerant in the system from a liquid to a gas. This generates a heat transfer and cools the air through a coil inside your home. So after 7 months of not being used the component that compresses the refrigerant back to a liquid has not been used and lubricated through the refrigerant.

That last paragraph is a lot to handle for your first time reading, but it gives an idea of the complexity of the system and the importance to maintain it. So when a heating and air conditioning contractor comes to look at the system for the first time of the year and turns the unit on there are some initial visual and audio tells we look for. This is an important part of the first runup of the year to ensure there is no damage to the unit. If something looks wrong in the freon levels or the compressor sounds abnormal the contractor can shut the unit down and assess the unit for damage. After initial inspection of the unit and ensuring proper cycling of the unit the cleaning would begin.

Cleaning the unit properly is the second part to this important air conditioning annual maintenance. The fins on the condensing unit are like a automobile radiator. They use tubes and fins to run the refrigerant through and pass air across that using a fan. This coil gets very clogged every summer and need to be cleaned each and every year. The problem comes when the homeowner sprays the coil from the outside in the get the leaves and debris off. This just pushes the debris more into the coil and plugs it even further.

The only proper way to clean a coil is to open the top of the condensing unit and take the fan off. Then by using either nitrogen or water, spray from the inside out cleaning the coil from the top to the bottom. Some companies use chemicals to clean the coil, but this is not intended for every year use. With proper annual cleaning there should be no reason to use chemicals to clean the unit.

After the initial check of the unit working and cleaning of the unit the contractor will check the refrigerant levels of the unit. This is somewhat of a process because of all the different factors that are involved with a proper running air conditioning unit. If the outside and inside coils are clean, and there is proper airflow in the home, your unit can properly be checked for freon levels.

There is a good amount more involved in how an air conditioning system works, but for the cleaning and maintenance this should be enough information. By performing the maintenance every year you can have the personal assurance that your equipment will last a long time without having any major issues to inconvenience your family.

Brett Gremillion owner of Gremillion Mechanical has been in the heating and air conditioning business for the past 15 years. We provide quality service to the Chicago area on all heating and cooling systems.

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Air Conditioning Companies And Their Rapid Growth

We cannot deny the importance of heating and cooling system in our lives, and people who are living in the countries made on deserts and other countries where temperature is always near to 50 Celsius can understand it even better. There are many air conditioning companies working in these days, with the different kind of air conditioners, different models and with different technologies. There are air conditioners with climate control technology. This technology filters the cool air and makes you feel much soothe and brighter. It is always recommended by the doctors to drink more water especially for the people working or living in hot environment. There were many people who had lost their lives due to the dehydration in past. Air-conditioning has contributed a larger part to cut down the death ratio as in these days many buildings are air conditioned.

The heating and cooling system history also indicates that humans were bothered by the harsh rays of the sun. The brutality of the heat made them think about the heating and cooling system. This almost started in second century from Asia when Chinese inventors were thinking to cool down the temperature for the imperial palace. It took long time for investors to understand the mechanism for heating and cooling system; they discover many models with different names. In 1820 the British scientists discovered that by compressing and liquefying, the ammonia can chill the air. The effort to invent a machine that can control the room temperature was on the high priority in the world as there were many people working on this. In 1830's an American physicians in Florida invented a machine during his practice. The intension to invent this machine was to cool down the hospital rooms for the patients suffering from malaria and yellow fever. This was the first attempt to manufacture an air conditioner.



In 1902 Willis Haviland Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioner he named the machine as "Apparatus for treating air" this machine became more famous in less time and was installed in hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. The machine was famous but there were some disadvantages such as ammonia was used as coolant, the size was very large and it was very expensive. In 1922 Carrier made some changes to the machine by replacing the ammonia with benign and with addition of the central compressor he reduced the size and made it more efficient. Carrier introduced this air-conditioner to the movie theaters in New York City. This has opened the new door to the air-conditioning world.
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There was a great advancement in air-conditioning after the Second World War, the most famous window units appeared. They become very famous in the beginning and their demand was the same for few decades. There were many air conditioning companies which started to manufacture these window units due to the high demand. Many of these companies also introduced different types of air-conditioning. In 1970's the split units were introduced by different companies, there were also some more technologies that were introduced such as ducted heating and cooling system. The air conditioning companies are still making the great enhancements by changing the size with same efficiency and bringing more healthcare technologies into air conditioning

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