Air Conditioner Condenser Cleaning

Air conditioning condenser coils

There is important unit of AC that has function to release the amount heat to the outside of the room that is air conditioner condenser! It is usually placed in the outside of the house (side or back yard of the house). Supporting its function to push out the high air temperature, it is usually equipped with large or medium fan. This fan has function to draw the air across over the coil elements. Ensuring this unit keeps working properly then 6 inches clearance to the wall is the minimum value of the distance that so recommended to install it! It is purposed to provide adequate space while it is running. Make ensure that it is not covered while in use.

Well, copper and aluminum are the primer materials of the coils (in order to make the coils are capable to reduce the thermal (dissipate heat) then usually the cooper material is designed with sleeves-metal attached to the fins-metal). Getting the proper cleaning maintenance to your air conditioning condenser, you need some maintenance’s equipments such as water source, garden hose, nozzle-spray, etc. Those tools are usually dependent to the amount dirt level, location of the components that will be cleaned and type. Some people have opinion that using extra chemical substances is helpful to make the cleaning process will run easily and quickly. This opinion is not wrong absolutely, but if you are not master to do it or don’t have experience to do this option before, then better you avoid it! Because basically chemical is not needed and even wrong composition or wrong chemical substances may destruct the materials of condenser’s components.

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Air Conditioner Covers

An air conditioner cover

An air conditioner cover

Unfriendly weather can damage many machine and other stuff, include air conditioners unit like portable air conditioners. The weather that can result potential risk to damage the machine can formed such as boiling hot weather, cold season extremely, a condensation extremely, and still many more. Therefore you should use a cover to protect your lovely air conditioner, and it usually named as air conditioner covers. They also can protect your air cooler from small dust and even from many insects which can also damage air conditioners.

The covers which primer-function to protect from small dusts usually produced from Dacron, vinyl, or most of them produced from plastics as synthetic material. Therefore commonly they are easily to wash. How about the size? Most covers for air conditioners are designed belong to standard size, so you can find them easily and you can get them with buy in the shop nearly around of you directly. Although they are produced belong to standard procedure of size in market, you should better concern about the button controls and the duct area coverage. Because the weakness is many standard covers of air conditioners in market commonly can as a cover for whole body of air conditioner, but can’t be used to cover the button controls and the duct.

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