Your air conditioner has a substance called a refrigerant, which serves as the system’s “blood”. It is an integral component of the unit, playing an important role in the cooling process. Unfortunately, prevailing issues from within the equipment can cause it to leak out, leading to extensive damage and inadequate cooling if not addressed properly.
Investing in an addition allows you to create a better, more spacious home while meeting the changing needs of your growing family. Like most renovations, it requires careful thought and planning. Apart from learning about the potential timeline and budget to get it done, you’ll have to consider the type of HVAC setup that will best fit your home addition. This decision, after all, will have an impact on your home’s overall heating and cooling needs.
With the new year comes new opportunities in doing things like getting more home maintenance done this year, HVAC maintenance in particular. In today’s post, Schmitt Heating & Air Conditioning shares some heating and cooling maintenance habits that you should start getting into this year.
For your heat pump or air conditioning system to work effectively, its outdoor unit, which houses the compressor, must have enough clearance on all sides. The ideal distance between it and the exterior wall, fence or shrubbery is at least 24 inches. Local HVAC service contractor Schmitt Heating & Air Conditioning explains its importance in today’s blog.
Spring is officially here, which means the next few months are going to get warmer. You’re probably planning on using your air conditioning system as soon as temperatures rise. Before you do, be sure to have it tuned-up by an HVAC repair contractor in your area. Scheduling a spring maintenance check for your cooling equipment has its benefits, which we discuss below.
Pets offer companionship and unconditional love. However, caring for them is a big responsibility. Among other things, you have to make sure they’re well-fed and well-groomed. Also, as a pet owner, you shouldn’t overlook your HVAC system; it should be in top condition to ensure their comfort and safety.
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There’s such a great need for heating and cooling services that there are unscrupulous people who will use this need to try to scam homeowners out of their hard-earned money. In this blog, the HVAC contractors at Schmitt share the most common HVAC scams and how you can avoid them.
With the high number of computer equipment running at any given time, server rooms have big energy requirements, not to mention the massive amount of cooling needed to prevent any of them from overheating. Heating and cooling expert Schmitt discusses the ways you can improve server room energy efficiency.
Your air conditioning and heating system is a major part of your home or business. No matter what you use it for, it makes up a major part of your home expense in both the construction phase and the maintenance phase. Getting the specifications right is extremely important; otherwise, you may waste a lot of money on something that may not make you comfortable at all.
If you think you have a problematic HVAC unit and you’ve eliminated your HVAC system as the culprit, your thermostat may be the issue. Your thermostat is responsible for communicating the temperature you want as well as the temperature of the room to your air conditioning system. If the former malfunctions, then your whole system can malfunction or do things you don’t want it to.
