Floridians welcome winter.
Winter is a welcome time in Florida as most folks see it as a time of opening windows and getting fresh air into the house. Cooling down and not feeling like you have to stay inside all the time, and of course lower electric bills. Not all Florida winters are the same though and letting that fresh air inside though good needs to be filtered properly so the new allergens that now invade your home leave just as fast as they came in. With that said, winter is a great time to do work on you’re a/c system. 1. It is not in such high demand. 2. Your local a/c company will probably be much happier moving around your attic and looking at your duct work in the winter when its 60 degrees in the attic and not 130 degrees. 3. You will be much happier knowing you can stay in your house all day and with the system down and it not being such a big deal. Now with these good reasons can you see why winter is a great time to work on you’re air conditioning repair system.
Besides the normal wear and tear of the summer months beating down on you’re a/c system sometimes a small accumulation of dust settles on your heat strips so when you turn that heat on for the first time you get that smell of burning substance or duct particles. This Is normal if you haven’t had your system recently tuned up. One more reason why maintenance plans are so important, getting serviced twice a year can set your system up for a very efficient summer and the Winter tune up can make your system ready for the winter months but more importantly checking it out after the hard summer months can save money but more importantly give you peace of mind you are ready to go into the winter. Please remember Winter Springs heating repair though usually unseen provide you the home owners with the utmost comfort on those hot summer days and those cold winter days that with out would be very uncomfortable.
As mentioned earlier opening the windows is a wonderful thing to do in the winter, makes the house fresh and just gives your home a more warm feeling! Now that you have opened the windows though you have let in outside allergens, such as weed, pollen, tree and other outside pollutants that now will invade your home system, two things to do. 1. Use a pleated filter if using one inch filter and change it regularly. This will be different for every house. The house with 2 people living in it will change their filter less times in a year compared to the house with 5 people 2 dogs and one cat will. Each individual home owner needs to check there filter once a month to get a safe idea on how long the filter will last. Or they can just change out once a month to be safe. 2. Increase your filtering options by installing a 5 inch media filter or a electronic filter for whole house filtering. There are many options for filtering your indoor air that you can choose. By getting help from you’re a/c professional you can decide just which one is right for you.
So in review Winter time in Florida is great! One we can open our windows and bring in fresh air, we can tune up our systems for a money saving winter. We can get our duct systems worked on by a/c professionals that won’t mind your attic so much in the 60 degree weather. Most of all though we can give your system a clean bill of health both inside and out, including your duct work and you will have peace of mind going into the winter and then back to spring that you’re a/c system is in the best shape possible.