What Can Go Wrong With a Neglected Air Conditioner?

The warm summer months are nearly here. This means it is time to think about your air conditioner again. If you’ve gone more than a year without having a trained commercial HVAC technician come out to your place of business, now is the time to do so. You don’t want to neglect your air conditioner! 

Below are just a few of the reasons you don’t want to skip your needed yearly maintenance:

#1 Your HVAC unit will break down before it should. When you see that the manufacturer’s estimated service life for an AC is 10 to 15 years, that estimate is done by assuming you keep up with the recommended annual maintenance. Without this yearly maintenance, you can cut that time in half! Why would you want to need to replace your AC after eight years when it could have lasted for closer to fifteen? That’s an expensive replacement, and one you’ll be making before you would have otherwise needed to!

#2 It won’t work as well. What would happen if you never changed the oil in your car? It would eventually break down on the side of the road, but before that you’d have all sorts of problems with it. The same goes for your air conditioner. Not only will your HVAC unit have a shorter life, it will have a less efficient one too. An air conditioner that isn’t kept in peak shape through regular tune-ups and cleanings just won’t be able to do its job as well. 

#3 Your monthly electric bills will be higher. As an air conditioner’s ability to do its job declines, it will need to expend more power to run than it otherwise would. You can expect your electrical bills to rise each month as it works harder and harder. On average, a HVAC unit will become 5% less efficient each year unless it’s maintained.

#4 You will need to call for emergency repairs more often. The majority of emergency repairs would have been preventable through maintenance. In other cases, maintenance will catch the small issues early so you won’t be stuck making an emergency repair call.

#5 People will be uncomfortable. An air conditioner that isn’t working well enough will lead to a very hot, stuffy building. No matter what type of business you are running, this isn’t a good thing. From restaurants to retail stores, no one wants to be hot inside your establishment!

Planned maintenance costs less and minimizes downtime. Call Coffey Refrigeration for your commercial air conditioner maintenance. The summer is rapidly closing in, and we want our customers who haven’t yet arranged for their regular air conditioning service visit from our technicians to have it done as soon as possible. Schedule your HVAC planned maintenance now, instead of waiting until you, your staff, and your customers are uncomfortably hot. We can be reached by calling (509) 586-1519.