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See What Happens At A Full Air Conditioner Tune Up: AC Tune Up Near Me

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What Does An AC Tune Up Include?

An AC Tune Up includes checking and cleaning all major components of your air conditioning system. Also included is checking to make sure you have the proper freon levels in your ac unit. This makes sure the ac unit is not leaking and will not leave you without air conditioning in the summer.

It is important to check the power level of your capacitor. Checking the capacitor, makes sure it will continue to start your outdoor unit. If your capacitor is low on power, an HVAC technician typically recommends replacing your capacitor preventatively. If the capacitor loses enough power, it will leave you without air conditioning. Also an important reason to replace a capacitor that is low on power preventatively, is if the capacitor is not providing enough power to the more expensive components, it can create problems for those other parts. These parts are much more expensive to replace such as a blower motor. Watch this video that explains the importance of checking your capacitor.

At One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning, we also check the major components of your furnace as well during your air conditioner maintenance to make sure we are not overlooking one side of the system.

How Often Should AC Be Tuned Up?

We recommend getting regular maintenance done or getting an ac tune up one time per year. It is important to keep your outdoor unit free of debris that clogs it throughout the year. The outdoor coil can be considered the “lungs” of the system so if it can’t breathe properly, the air conditioner will not be able to cool your home enough.

Often ac tune ups will uncover an ac repair that needs to be done preventatively so you will not be left with an air conditioner breakdown.

How To Wash Out Your Air Conditioner

While a professional cleaning is always best because you can get a much more thorough clean from the inside out, you can help your air conditioner by washing the outside. Watch our demonstration here to learn how to wash out your air conditioner properly. If you have a professional cleaning done once per year, it is not necessary to clean your outdoor unit yourself unless you have an unusual amount of leaves, dirt, etc. on your outdoor unit that may be causing it to not work properly.

Air Conditioner Not Cooling Enough?

If your air conditioner is not cooling enough, it is possible that you can help solve the problem. Lack of maintenance and dirt in general creates problems for your air conditioner. If your air conditioner is not cooling enough, try changing your air filter and do a gentle wash of the outdoor unit with a light stream of water. These simple changes may help! It is important to change your air filter regularly. Please watch this video on what can happen if you do not change your filter.

Air Conditioner Not Cooling Enough?

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Has this ever happened to you? Your air conditioner is running, but it is just not quite keeping the house at the temperature you want it to be. It always is working hard and not cooling the house enough. We get this question in many different forms and the answer as to why can vary.

Air Conditioner Not Cooling Enough?

Is there something you can do about your air conditioner not cooling enough or are you stuck with certain areas of your house never getting below 85 degrees in the summer time?

When it comes to your air conditioner, just about every symptom could have several different possible solutions. There’s always multiple explanations as to what could possibly be going on. For that reason before we get started fixing the problem, we need to cover our bases and get to the bottom of what is really causing the problem if your air conditioner is not cooling enough. The first thing you should do is to take an inventory of what is happening.

Take An Inventory Of What Is Going On With Your Air Conditioner

When you think you have a problem with your air conditioner the first thing to do is nothing. That’s right. Don’t touch anything. Just leave it alone and take an inventory of what is happening. Go to the thermostat. Is it set on cooling? What temperature is it set at versus what is the room temperature?

If you know the air conditioner is set to cool, and you can see that it is not getting to the set temperature, you know you have a problem.

What’s working and not working? Is the furnace blowing air inside? If you go over to a register and put your hand in front of it is it blowing air?

Now to the unit outside. Is it blowing air? There’s a little fan on the top or side of your air conditioner. Is that fan blowing or not blowing. If it is blowing air what is the temperature of that air? Hot or cold? If you know those things we can really help figure out what’s going on.

What Is The Temperature Of The Air Coming From The Outdoor Fan?

What difference does it make what the temperature is of the air coming off the outdoor unit fan? When you put your hand over the outdoor fan, the air coming from it is usually hot. What your are feeling is the heat that was inside now being pushed to the outside.

So, if you feel air coming for the outdoor fan and it feels cool instead of warm, that means the hot air is not being taken out of the inside of your house. Under normal circumstances the hot air from inside is rejected outside.

What Is The Solution To Your Air Conditioner Not Cooling Enough?

So let’s say everything appears to be working but just not quite cooling enough. Usually around 80% of the time it needs maintenance. A dirty coil for example, can cause your air conditioner to not be efficient and to not cool as much as when it is clean. Dirty filters will also cause your air conditioner’s performance to suffer and can cause a multitude of problems relating to efficiency. When the air is not allowed to circulate properly, your air conditioner will feel like it is not keeping up to the desired temperature especially in the heat of the summer.

The good news is that if your air conditioner is not cooling enough, a simple maintenance visit will more than likely fix the issue. However, we strongly recommend a trained professional to do the maintenance on your air conditioner. A maintenance visit and the complete cleaning of a cooling system involves high voltage electricity and refrigerants at high pressure. There are also many smaller components that can be damaged in the process of cleaning your air conditioner if you do not know how to do it properly.

So, if your air conditioner is not cooling enough, don’t fear the worst. It is probably something very simple that can be fixed during an air conditioner tune up or maintenance visit.

It is a good idea to get your air conditioner checked out if it is not cooling enough because it is currently using much more electricity that it needs. So it’s already costing you more money than it should, plus you’re not comfortable. Maintenance will help that a lot by cleaning up all of the components.

Check Your Air Conditioner Early In The Season Especially If You Think It May Have A Problem

In addition to getting an air conditioner maintenance and tune up to address the problem of your air conditioner not cooling enough, we recommend you do some in-house things to keep the cool air in your house. Take an inventory of your house to make sure you are not blocking registers or releasing the conditioned air. One common issue we see every summer is a customer complaining about the duct work sweating near the basement. Water dripping from the duct work isn’t normal and the issue is usually resolved by finding a basement window that got left open and closing it.

If a basement window is left open during the spring, it lets in an endless amount of humidity in your basement. This causes condensation to collect on everything that is cool and will cause things like the duct work to “sweat” and cause water issues in your basement.

Double Check Those Storm Windows

Another thing you can do on your own to make sure your air conditioner can keep the desired temperature is to make sure your storm windows are closed. If your storm windows are left open during the heat of the summer you go from what could be the equivalent of a double or triple pane glass to a single pane window. You don’t notice these things when it is 72 degrees outside, but you do when it is 100 degrees outside which can cause your air conditioner to not cool enough.