Like any type of heating and cooling equipment, maintaining your heat pump is essential to keep it in top working order.
It’s easy to neglect your heat pump and postpone maintenance, but once you realize why regular service is so important, you’ll never miss a routine appointment again.
Regularly maintaining your heat pump provides the following benefits:
• Greater energy efficiency: A heat pump that is serviced every six months operates more efficiently than one that never receives professional tune-ups. Inspections that improve heat pump efficiency include changing the filter, sealing ductwork leaks and verifying proper refrigerant charge.
• Longer equipment life span: A well-maintained car can last years longer, and the same is true of a heat pump. Tightening electrical connections, replacing worn belts and cleaning the indoor and outdoor coils are all measures that protect system components and help them last longer.
• Lower energy consumption: More efficient heat pumps consume less electricity, which lowers your bills and helps the environment. Fixing refrigerant leaks, checking electrical connections, checking amperage, and cleaning away dirt all help to lower energy consumption.
• Improved comfort: A few adjustments and inspections can improve the heating and cooling output of the heat pump, helping you feel more comfortable in any season. Measures that improve your comfort include verifying correct electric control and ensuring that no return and supply registers are blocked, a just a few.
These types of inspections take place during professional tune-ups. However, there are things you can do on your own in between professional maintenance visits that provide similar benefits. These include:
• Changing the filter
• Keeping plants and other vegetation trimmed back from the outdoor unit
• Cleaning supply and return grilles and making sure they’re not blocked
Make sure you give us a call and set up your maintenance.
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