Air Conditioning Posts

The Many Benefits of Air Conditioning Maintenance

March 20th, 2017

Maintenance isn’t a luxury for an AC, and skipping it once makes it more likely it will be skipped again in the future, leading to cumulative problems.

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March Is the Time to Schedule Air Conditioning Maintenance

March 6th, 2017

Regardless of the swings in March weather, for HVAC technicians this is the month to start working on air conditioning maintenance.

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End-of-Summer: Here Are Some AC Repairs You Might Need

August 29th, 2016

The last month of summer is the time when air conditioning systems face their most stern challenge: wearing down. Your home’s air conditioner has probably already put in a few solid months of work to provide the household with comfort, and now the work strain might start to catch up with it.

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Fixing the Hot Spots in Your House

August 8th, 2016

One of the most common myths about air conditioning is that hot spots in homes are just inevitable and nothing can be done to stop them. Uneven cooling (and heating during the winter) is a problem that many homes have, but there are ways to stop them and enjoy cool temperature throughout a house.

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Why Your AC May Be Tripping the Circuit Breaker

August 1st, 2016

The electrical panel in a home does the important job of shutting down electrical circuits when there’s too much electrical draw from one of the appliances, such as the air conditioner. If your air conditioning system suddenly stops working completely, one of the first things you should do is check the electrical panel to see if the AC’s circuit breaker has tripped. Resetting the breaker will usually solve the problem.

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Beware of Burned-Out Capacitors in Your AC This Summer!

July 18th, 2016

If you remembered to schedule regular maintenance for your air conditioning system during the spring, then your home’s AC has a great chance of making it through the summer heat without running into a major malfunction. That is, after all, one of the main reasons to have maintenance done in the first place.

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Weird and Unusual Facts about Air Conditioners

July 11th, 2016

The electro-mechanical air conditioning system has been around since 1902, when Willis Haviland Carrier invented a refrigerant-based device designed to lower humidity inside paper plants. The AC has gone through many developments during the century-plus it’s been around, and now it’s a standard part of the daily lives of most people in the U.S.

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Water Leaking from Your AC? This Might Be Why…

July 4th, 2016

Your air conditioning system doesn’t run using water. Nor is it part of the plumbing system. But you may at some point notice that water is dripping out of it. Why is that happening—and should you do something about it?

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Why Won’t My AC Keep Up with the Heat?

June 27th, 2016

Summer is now officially here… and so is the summer heat. The temperatures are rising into the high 80s now, and it will only grow hotter during July.

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