Is Your Home’s HVAC Ready for the Hot Summer?

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Temperatures are rising this week and it seems the humidity is around the High Plains. First, is your HVAC ready for the hot summer?  Do you change the filters regularly?  Hase Adam’s Air come out to your home for a summer and winter inspection of your system?  If you haven’t checked the boxes please call us.   Here are 10 items you can during these heat waves in Texas.

1.Raise the temperature on your thermostat to 75-78 degrees.

2. Use ceiling fans to cool your house.

3. Change your air filter at least every two months.

4. Heat food in your microwave

5-Hang curtains in larger windows.

6. Clean behind your dryer.

7. Skip the dryer altogether.

8. Switch to LED bulbs.

9. Seal cracks and openings

10. Turn down your water heater temp.

 

 

Why should I replace my existing HVAC system?

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Replacing your HVAC system is crucially important to the working order of your home. As the years go by systems are becoming more efficient to help the user save on their monthly bills. In addition to your current system’s obsolete, less efficient nature, as time goes on your system is becoming increasingly less efficient because of normal wear and tear. Whether or not you’re properly maintaining your systems as they get older, they have to work harder, which causes your monthly bills to increase.

 

 

Dirt, Dust, and Grime

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So here we are in the first part of June.  Yep, we’ve had a lot of rain, and you’re thinking, surely their can’t be dirt and dust in the air.  Well maybe not yet but one thing we know about the High Plains of Texas is, the dust and the wind will blow and touch everything that is outside and many items inside your home.  We have placed four pictures of actual equipment from this area.  Top right shot is a blower motor and its dirty, (you should have seen the blower wheel)?  Top left is a filter that had not been changed in a very long time. Bottom right is an outside condenser.  This can get dirty as well.  Bottom is a bucket full of whatever came off the inside coil.  Hair, dust, dirt grime, pet dander and grease.  All from inside the home.  Two items you can take care of.  One would-be change the filter out at least every 30-45 days.  The outside condenser can be washed with a water hose, simple.  The other items you will have to call Adam’s Air at 806-316-1103

Dirty Coils Make for Breathing and HVAC Problems

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If your air conditioner isn’t being maintained regularly, it may not be cooling as efficiently. Dirty and accumulated debris can block the coils and reduce their efficiency, which will cause them to wear out faster. The indoor evaporator coil may become dirty if furnace filters are not changed regularly.  In the pictures posted in this blog entry you can see a home where the hair, pet dander, dust, food particles, and regular home particulates have made what we call a sweater of your coil.   But this is not the sweater you want! In the High Plains of Texas, you should be changing your filters at least every 30 days. Dirty evaporator coils can cause your furnace and air conditioner to work harder and reduce efficiency.  And in the long run destroy parts of the HVAC or break down your complete systems.  A trained technician will be able to clean extremely dirty coils.  Please call Adam’s Air for us to come out and look over your coil and system.  806-316-1103

 

Indoor Air Quality in Your Home, ( what are your kids breathing at home).

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Our company, Adam’s Air, is in Amarillo, Texas in the High Plains of Texas, which is in the Panhandle of Texas.  We have lots of wind and at times big time dust storms.   The dust leaves its mark on everything.  Your home, your car, the sidewalks, and driveways.

One hidden place the dust hides is your HVAC system.  No matter how much you think your home is shielded from the dust, it’s going to sneak in.  The ducts in your attic and ceilings push air and heat throughout your house.   They will also carry dust, viruses, bacteria, food and pet odors.  So many items that you and your family are breathing in.  So as a homeowner, what can do to seal up your home?  First make sure your windows are sealed from the outside.  If you have an older home the caulking sealing your windows will crack and break away.  Taking all that old caulk out and refilling it will help seal sir from coming in.  The air filter which is in your system needs to be changed out once a month.  This is so important in changing this out like clockwork.  This will help you breathe easier and less contaminants going through your home. Modern homes also have a return, and you will have to change the filter in that area as well.

There are many products that are made to help you breathe easier as well.  Electronic air cleaners, special UV lights, such as the Reme Halo, whole home duct cleaner that will get up to 99.9% of the indoor nasties that get in your home.  Air duct cleaning can help start the process of cleaning your home air.  Adam’s Air and our sister company, 806 Air can help you with your Indoor Air Quality.  Call us today.

So, what do you do?  Call the professionals at Adam’s Air Heating and Air.  We can look at your system, check all parts to make sure they are running the correct way and make sure the outside and inside coils are clean. We can also recommend products for cleaner air!  Call us today, 806-316-1103