How to maintain air conditioners correctly: useful tips for proper care

To make air conditioner work properly, it should be serviced regularly: clean it from dust and dirt, debris and check the efficiency of parts. You can do something yourself, and for some works it is necessary to call a master. Let's consider how to correctly service conditioners and some tips on its care.

How often it is necessary to take care of the conditioner

When you need to clean the split-system depends on the frequency of its use. Service maintenance of climate equipment can be categorized as follows:

• Standard air conditioner maintenance once a year, often in the spring. This includes diagnostics of the equipment, checking the condition of the main elements and the system as a whole. They determine the level of freon pressure, how the inlet and outlet temperatures differ, clean or replace the filter in the internal unit.
• The air conditioner, which works for heating in winter and cooling in summer, is serviced twice a year: in spring and in fall.
• Extended maintenance of the air conditioner is carried out if it works constantly. The specialist can help to make a schedule of diagnostics and cleaning, suitable for the specific equipment and operating conditions.

Air conditioner cleaning sequence

When cleaning an air conditioner, the following steps are followed:

• The outside unit is washed from the outside using a pressure washer, steam generator, or by hand. It is also cleaned with compressed air from the compressor. The powerful jet blows poplar fluff and dust out of the unit.
• Remove dirt from the fan of the outdoor unit. To do this, disconnect the grille and treat the internal parts with a vacuum cleaner. Then wipe them with a damp cloth.
• The condensate drain pipe is blown and cleaned.
• Check the efficiency of the electric motor, tightness of the refrigerant circuit, inspect the drainage system.
• Remove the casing from the air conditioner. Remove and clean the air filter, dry it. Clean the cooling radiator, then install the filter back. Remove dirt and dust from the indoor unit fan.
• Refill freon if necessary.
• Check how the air conditioner works in different modes, adjust the remote control and optimize the settings.

To make the air in the room always clean, it is necessary to clean filters regularly. It is desirable to do it once a week if the conditioner works constantly. It is necessary to remove the front panel of the split-system, take out the filters and wash them under water jet. During cleaning of the apartment you can clean the filter with a vacuum cleaner. It is also important to clean it manually. This is done delicately, so as not to break the fragile parts. The filter should be allowed to dry completely before installation.

Tips on how to care for your air conditioner

A few useful recommendations:

• It is important to periodically inspect the split system. If water starts to drip from the internal unit, ice appeared on the pipes, and air cooling in the room worsened, it means that you need to turn off the equipment and call a master.
• It is recommended to invite the service at least once in 2 years.
• If the conditioner is intended only for air cooling and is not equipped with all-season system, when the temperature drops below zero outside, it is not recommended to turn on the equipment.

If unusual noise or squeaking is heard when the air conditioner is operating, it is better to turn off the equipment. It is possible that parts are defective or clogged. In such cases it is recommended to call the service department.