Air conditioning units work overtime during the summer months. If you want to maximize the quality of your unit, follow these HVAC efficiency tips.
- Change Filters Regularly – In Georgia, air conditioning units work overtime during the summer months. Every three months is often enough unless you smoke or have indoor pets, then you should change filters each month.
- Regularly clean debris from outdoor units – This includes leaves and dirt. Be sure to keep bushes and shrubs cut back from the unit as well. Ants tend to build hills inside units, so keep ant killer sprinkled around your unit.
- Don’t allow dryer vents to blow on outdoor units – All that heat makes the unit work twice as hard! Billy Butler HVAC can re-direct your vent.
- Keep unit serviced and outdoor coils cleaned – A Spring and Fall service is enough. Dirty coils hinder the units ability to absorb heat. Units low on coolant cost more to run.
- Maintain a consistent indoor temperature – Keep your home cooler or warmer, whichever you prefer, but pick a temperature and leave it there! Constantly raising and lowering indoor
temperature makes your unit work harder, using more energy and costing you more money.
