Your central air conditioning system plays a vital role in ensuring your year-round comfort. Performing regular maintenance and scheduling tune-ups with an HVAC contractor are instrumental in safeguarding its major components and protecting its life expectancy. To ensure you don’t experience any hiccups, here’s a brief guide to caring for the unit.

How to Maintain Your Central Air Conditioning System

Do:

Improve your home’s efficiency.

Taking steps to increase your energy efficiency will reduce your costs and protect the life of your air conditioning system. To reduce your dependency on the unit, seal all openings around doors and windows. Your HVAC contractor can also assess the quality of your home’s insulation. If the house leaks air, you may be relying more than necessary on the system for comfort. Draw the windows closed when it’s sunny to prevent warmth from flooding rooms when you want to remain cool.

Schedule regular HVAC maintenance.

Annual visits from an HVAC contractor are recommended to protect the life expectancy of the unit. During a tuneup, your technician will clean the outdoor unit, make sure the system’s components are working, replace fluids as needed, and catch small problems before they become costlier, more catastrophic issues. Doing so in the springtime is smart because you can beat the summertime rush. You should also schedule pre-winter appointments to prevent furnace replacements or major repairs.

Don’t:

Forget to change the filter.

It’s easy to neglect this step, but staying on top of it has many benefits. A clean filter free of dust and debris promotes healthy indoor air quality and prevents the system from working too hard to cool your home. Doing so every one to three months is advisable, depending on whether you suffer from allergies or own pets.

Change the thermostat setting often.

Changing the setting on the thermostat to quickly cool down the house might seem like a smart idea, but it could actually backfire. The problem is that this doesn’t force the unit to work any more quickly than it otherwise would. It would only force the system to work longer, which in turn drives up your bills and forces the system to work harder than is necessary.

Offering reliable service throughout Thomaston and Bristol, CT, the HVAC contractors at Thomaston Oil are prepared to assist when your system requires attention. Whether you want to improve your system’s energy efficiency, look into a furnace replacement, or entrust them with boiler repairs, they’re ready to tackle the job. Visit the family-owned company online to learn more or call (860) 283-4878 to schedule an appointment.