Maintain a Daikin Split System Air Conditioner at Home

We need to spruce up and prepare a Daikin split system air conditioners to keep the humidity out of our homes and keep us cool-headed during the warm months. It is not a pleasant experience, after you have worked hard all day, to come home to an air conditioner that is barely alive, leaving you to a sweaty, uncomfortable evening at home.                                                                                                                                             

We want to be proactive about this and get our daikin split air conditioners ready now! Whether it is a wall unit or central air, we need to do a few simple things to make sure they are operating efficiently and effectively. Before doing any maintenance on your air conditioner, always make sure that it is unplugged and that the circuit breakers are off or the fuses are removed. Never remove the housing and attempt to repair the unit yourself.                                                                                                                                               

Air Conditioner Maintenance

Like trying to row a boat into the wind, a poorly maintained Daikin split system air conditioner will need to work harder to operate and use more electricity.                                                                                                                                            

Here are some tips to help keep your air conditioner running well and your home comfortable.                                                                                                                                                

1. Plug in your window unit to make sure it is operating before the season begins. You don’t want to wait for a hot sticky day to find out it no longer works or that the circuit breaker is off, causing you to wait for hours for the house to cool down.                                                                                                                                                

2. Unplug the unit and remove the filter. The filters are housed behind the front grill area of the unit. Replace the filter if it has deteriorated beyond use. A home improvement store or your local hardware store usually stocks these.                                                                                                                                    

3. Clean the filter by using a mild detergent, rinsing it thoroughly and letting it dry before replacing it. This should be repeated monthly during the cooling season.                                                                                                                                    

4. Using your vacuum or shop vacuum, gently vacuum the front grills on the air conditioner and the rear condenser coils. Be careful not to destroy the condenser coils when cleaning. Gently brush and vacuum the dust and dirt from the coils. Make sure to straighten any bent coils. Use a plastic comb or something that cannot puncture any of the condenser tubes.                                                                                                                                    

5. After you have completed the cleaning process, turn the unit on. If it is not blowing out cool air, the freon may need to be replenished. You will need a service professional to clean your Daikin split air conditioner.                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                               

The Basics of Air Conditioner Installation Gold CoastHomeowners Should Know

If you want to have any kind of air conditioner installed in your home, then you will probably need to call in professionals in order to arrange this, and you may also want to ensure that you understand exactly what is involved with installing an air-conditioner unit in a wall, or connecting it to ducts. Depending upon type of air conditioner you have bought, installation can be very simple, or it can involve a lot of hard work. If you understand how the air conditioner works, and how it should be installed, then you can work out how long your installation team will need, or at least understand what the team are doing as you watch them fitting the conditioner to your rooms.

In order to understand the process of air conditioner installation Gold Coast homeowners will need to know how the air conditioning system works. All units have the same basic ingredients, which includes a condensing unit, and evaporator coil, and a refrigerant. There will also be a fan, and a temperature control switch which will allow you to get the temperature of the room. When you pick a temperature which is lower than the current heat of your room, the air conditioner will start to work. The power turns on the condensing unit, causing a compressor pump to move gas through the condenser, and it then turns into liquid and passes through the refrigerant area. This increases the temperature of the liquid, turning it back into gas as it passes over the evaporator unit. This is the process which allows an air conditioner to take warm air from the room (as gas) and bring cool air into the room (as re-created gas).

When the air conditioning unit is installed into your home, there are two main ways that it can be fitted. The first involves creating a hole in a wall, or in a window, and connecting the external parts of the A/C unit where the gas is turned into liquid, with the internal parts where it is heated into a gas. These are the most basic kinds of unit fittings, and can be time consuming since they require physical holes to be made, and the parts connected through that hole. However, it can be done within a few hours.

The second type of unit fitting involves duct and split-system A/C units. These require more work, since there is a single outside point but a number of internal devices, all connected to that external point. If you want this kind of air conditioner installation Gold Coast homeowners will have to call in a professional team who have experience with this type of air conditioner unit, and can fit them without creating holds in ducts, or damaging the unit.