Short cycling is the last thing homeowners want to experience, but when maintenance or repairs are required, it may not be if but when. Air conditioner short cycling is frustrating and can lead to inefficient cooling, increased energy bills, and potential damage to the HVAC system. This comprehensive guide will give you everything you need to know about short cycling and how to find an effective solution.
We don’t want you to have to need to call us for AC repair in Greenville, SC during the summer. We’re always happy to help our customers with repairs, but we also want our customers to get the best performance from their air conditioning systems and not get trapped in cooling emergencies. The good news is, there are ways you can avoid running into AC problems in the coming summer.
Glad you asked! Let’s go over some of the best ways we can help you avoid problems with home cooling this year.
Once upon a time, there were only two options available for a home when it came to air conditioning:
These two choices didn’t offer much space between them: if a house didn’t have ductwork, it had to use window ACs or else go through the expense of having parts of the house remodeled to add it. Window ACs were ugly, inconvenient, and low-powered.
However, now there’s a third option: ductless mini split heat pumps. These systems combine the benefits of central air conditioning (you can have cooling throughout the house) with window ACs (no need to add ducts or modify the house in any way). Plus, they come with additional benefits that make them arguably the best all-around choice. We’ll explain the top benefits of considering ductless AC in Greenville, SC for your house.
If your home has a crawlspace, then TUNE IN TO THE FOLLOWING! We at Carolina Climate Control run into all different kinds of air conditioning and heating systems. Many of them have ductwork located in the crawlspace underneath the home. A dark and gloomy place that no homeowner dares to enter! Some things we encounter underneath homes during our routine duct system maintenance appointments are as follows; crushed ductwork from crawling over the piping, sweating/condensating duct work, high percentage of air leaks, poor insulation from age, and the list goes on. As a delivery system for all the air you breathe in your home, we want to ensure that your ductwork is 100% effective in maintaining clean air and proper distribution.
It’s time to get a new air conditioner for your home. Great, you’ve come to the right people to help you with your central AC installation in Greenville, SC. We’ve got the NATE-certified technicians who can do the job right, starting with sizing the unit and…
Wait, what does “sizing” mean, you ask? Good question! Understanding what it means to “size” an air conditioner and why it’s so important will tell you plenty about why it pays to work with the best licensed HVAC professionals around.
When your air conditioner is running, you may occasionally hear the sounds of water dripping inside it. This is a normal sound to hear: it’s condensate moisture from the cooling process getting moved out of the AC. Like any part of an air conditioner, the condensate drainage system can malfunction and lead to water leaking out of the unit.
If you see water pooling around your HVAC cabinet indoors, you’ll want to have the problem corrected as soon as possible with professional AC repair in Greenville, SC. Leaving this unaddressed not only threatens parts of your home with water damage, it can cause the air conditioner to shut off, lose efficiency, and become damaged.
What can go wrong that will lead to these water leaks? We’ll look at the causes more below.
If you find that one of the indoor blower units for your home’s ductless mini split system isn’t working, you’ll be annoyed about it. However, this is a time when you’ll also discover one of the greatest advantages of having a ductless mini split heat pump: if only one indoor unit breaks, it doesn’t affect the others. You’ll only lose heating or cooling in a single space, and you won’t have a major comfort emergency until you get a mini split repair in Greenville, SC from our technicians.
Now that we’ve helped you see a “bright side” to your predicament, we’ll look into the reasons why that one wall unit isn’t doing its job.
The compressor is the component of an air conditioner that uses the most power to operate. Arguably, it’s the most important AC component. Without the compressor, an air conditioner cannot carry out the process of heat exchange that allows it to pump heat out of a house and cool it down.
You might have heard that if the compressor for your AC fails, that means the entire air conditioning system is shot and you need to replace it. That’s a big and expensive move—but is it true that a dead compressor means the end of your AC?
Well, sometimes it does. But not always. Below we’ll look at the different scenarios for HVAC replacement in Greenville, SC when you have a failed compressor.
There are four different options you have when the compressor for your AC dies:
In April we wrote a reminder about having air conditioning maintenance done before the summer arrives. Our Moose Plan makes it easy and more rewarding!
Now it’s almost officially summer, and if you haven’t yet scheduled your AC tune-up in Greenville, SC through our maintenance plan, we definitely recommend you do it now. Although there’s technically no expiration date for maintenance (as long as it gets done once a year), you’ll get the most benefits from a tune-up and inspection if you have it completed before the main summer heat arrives.
Need some more encouragement to sign up for the Moose Plan and schedule your AC tune-up? Our mascot, Moose, has put together a list of ways that getting maintenance pays you back. The money you save over the lifetime of your air conditioner, combined with the peace of mind that your AC is working its best, is well worth it.
As summer gets underway, it’s a good idea to know some of the ways that ACs can give us warnings they aren’t in the best condition. The easiest way to tell when an AC is malfunctioning is when it stops sending out cool air. But we want to help you get ahead of a “no cool” air conditioner if possible with some tips on warning signs you can watch for. Or, in the case of this post, listen for.
Strange sounds are one of the easiest ways to determine that you’ve got a cooling system that needs professional air conditioning repair in Greenville, SC. Anything that isn’t the standard sounds you hear from your AC—the whirring of fan blades, the hum of the compressor, the occasional drip of water, a few clicks as it shuts off—are reasons for concern. Below we’ll look over the most common warning sounds.
