Summer AC Prep Boulder City

Get your air conditioning unit ready for summer in Boulder City by starting with the easy tasks. The first is to clean or replace the air filter. The next is to clean the outdoor condenser unit. You can do both of these things safely and quite easily if you take the precautions of using an electric drill to unscrew the cover of the outdoor unit and wearing gloves so as not to cut yourself on any sharp edges found either outside or inside the unit. Next, check the ductwork. This involves lying down on your side and peering into the duct. After doing this, I strongly recommend scheduling a maintenance check with a professional to perform the tasks I've just described inside the casing and to the coils.

Absolutely! Having your air conditioning unit serviced before the onset of summer is advisable, necessitating a preemptive approach to what could become a troublesome situation more efficiently handled in the spring than the dog days of summer. When Boulder City residents let their air conditioning units lie fallow, with unanticipated breakdowns serving as preventive maintenance's counterpoint, they seem destined to shell out far more money to repair or replace units than they would have spent had they been more mindful of an already ongoing maintenance calendar. And what force drives the maintenance calendar? Efficiency and energy saving.

To get a window air conditioner ready for summer in Boulder City, first take off the filter and clean it. Make sure you use the correct method so that you don’t ruin the filter (some are too sensitive and should not be handled roughly or cleaned using a vacuum).After cleaning the filter, brush or vacuum the coils, which are just above the top of the front of the air conditioner, and brushes and vacuums are just a couple of tools that might do nicely by your coils. Check (and clean if it looks like it needs it) the drain situation on the air conditioner. If there’s any kind of blockage, fix it.Next, check the seals so that air can only go in and out of the air conditioner and not around it into the spaces you reside in. Finally, put power to the air conditioner and verify that the power means something, in that it runs well and doesn’t sound like it’s doing any kind of work that any mortal might find unpleasant.

To ready your AC for the summer in Boulder City, you should first turn off the power before doing any cleaning. This can be done in a couple of ways; for most people, shutting off the breaker that controls the unit is easiest. Once the unit isn't in danger of turning on, clear away any debris around the outdoor condenser and clean the fins with a soft brush or vacuum. If you use a vacuum, get one with a brush attachment. After the fins are clean, wet them down using a gentle spray of water and don't use a hose. If you must use a hose, do it very gently and avoid the kind of force that would easily bend the fins. A clean condenser unit has fins that are straight and in good shape.

During the hot summer months in Boulder City, an air conditioning system usually operates for around 8 to 12 hours daily. This varies, of course, depending on the home's square footage and the cooling capacity of the AC unit, as well as the type of insulation in the house, how well the windows fit, and whether or not the interior doors are closed. That all says a lot for the AC unit in question. But assuming it has a solid basis on which to work, let's consider these next two paragraphs as a sort of thought experiment.

It is not required to cover air conditioning units outside in Boulder City during summer. The weather isn't an issue for AC units, which are built to take all kinds of punishment and keep on working. But if you think about it, does an AC unit really need to be left uncovered? Shouldn't it offer some coverage? After all, it offers coverage when doing the work for which it was designed—i.e., cooling a space. But I digress. Let me get back to the main stall—I mean point.

For some, the best air conditioning temperature in the summer is 72 degrees. But to set your A/C to that number, and then maintain it over a period of time, you are flirting with some potentially disastrous outcomes. One of them is the hike in yonder energy-efficiency bills that you actually pay on a monthly basis. Another is the hike in the "wear and tear" component of your A/C unit's life. You might do well, instead of 72, to aim for something like 75-78 degrees, and to actually achieve those numbers, you might fiddle with some of the other settings on your A/C unit.

Certainly! Here’s a rephrased version of the text:Leaving the air conditioner on all day in the summer when you're not home and the outside temperature is around 100 degrees Fahrenheit can nearly double the amount you're spending on electricity. In Boulder City, where the main cooling units are electric, this can lead to some seriously shocking bills. Running the AC nonstop is basically like running a slow cooker—that is, if a slow cooker could use up to 5,000 watts of electricity in a day, which is what the average amount of energy an air conditioning unit will use if it's just left on.

The ideal daytime setting for your air conditioning in Boulder City is usually about 78°F. This temperature is generally the best for keeping cool while also being energy efficient during the summer heat.

When the temperature in Boulder City reaches 100 degrees, a reliable guideline is to maintain the interior of your home at 20 to 25 degrees below the outside temperature. This would recommend setting the air conditioner at a comfortable and energy-efficient level of between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.