What is a precision tune up? What are the benefits? How often should this be done? These are just a few questions that most people want to be informed on.
A precision tune up (PTU) is a fancy name for cleaning the indoor and outdoor unit of an air conditioner system. This entails cleaning both coils (indoor and outdoor unit), clean the drain line, check and inspect all wires and connections and make sure the unit is working efficiently. Cleaning the coils on a unit means more than just spraying water to get the dirt off. The coils are constantly sucking in air therefore in bedding and compacting the dirt deep in the coil. A coil cleaning spray should be used to break up the dirt and dust that is deep within the coil and then rinsed thoroughly with water. The refrigerant should also be checked to make sure there are no leaks.
The benefits of having a PTU done on your system will help your system last longer and run the the best it possibly can. Just as the oil in a car needs to be changed every 3,000 miles, an air conditioner needs to be cleaned on a yearly basis. Not having your unit cleaned yearly is compared to not changing the oil in a car for 166,000 miles. Remember that during summer time in Florida an air conditioner is on almost all day.
It is recommended by Energy Star that an air conditioner system should be tuned up yearly. Some companies say that this should be done twice a year, but there is no real need for that. If a company does a tune up once a year and does a thoroughly efficient job the air conditioning system will be good until the following year.
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