Red Rock Mechanical, LLC Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Burlington’

Why Your Air Conditioner Can Develop Refrigerant Leaks

Monday, July 13th, 2015

We’ve talked before on this blog about refrigerant (a.k.a. “Freon”) leaks in your air conditioning. This is a serious problems for an AC, because the system should have the same amount of refrigerant for its entire service life. It’s an unfortunately prevalent myth that an air conditioner uses up refrigerant as it works and needs to be “topped off.”

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How to Change the Air Filter in Your Air Conditioning System

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Annual professional maintenance for your air conditioning system is vital for its long-term performance and short-term energy savings. But there is an important maintenance step you must take on your own during the summer, or as long as your AC needs to run on a regular basis: cleaning out the air filter once a month. (In the case of an AC that uses permanent filters, the filter will need to be replaced.)

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Where Is the Air Filter on My Air Conditioning System?

Monday, June 29th, 2015

If you are reading this, it’s probably because you know that it’s important for the operation of your air conditioning system to change or clean its air filter once a month during the summer. Without this regular attention, the filter will become clogged and start to impair the AC, leading to higher bills and possibly repair needs.

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The Problem with an Oversized Air Conditioning System

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

Here’s a piece of advice we cannot stress enough when it comes to residential air conditioning: you must leave the installation of a new air conditioner for a home to HVAC professionals. It is not only a matter of seeing that the new AC is correctly hooked up and will work as it should. It is also a matter of finding the right size of air conditioner.

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Why Is No Cool Air Coming from My Air Conditioner?

Monday, June 15th, 2015

Perhaps the most common emergency service call that HVAC technicians receive during a summer is for an air conditioning system that is only blowing out room-temperature air. This is a malfunction that homeowners notice quickly, and it’s obviously something they will want fixed even quicker.

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How Leaking Refrigerant Affects Your Air Conditioning System

Monday, June 8th, 2015

It isn’t exaggerating to say that refrigerant is the lifeblood of an air conditioner. The compressor acts as the heart and pumps the refrigerant through the AC’s components, carrying heat from one location and depositing it in another. Without circulating refrigerant, you won’t have a working AC.

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3 Signs of Sewer Line Damage to Watch For

Monday, June 1st, 2015

The sewer line that serves your home is a part of the plumbing that you won’t think about very often: it does its important job—the removal of collected solid waste and waste water from the home and out to the municipal plumbing system—underground and out of sight. That’s just as it should be. But this does create the problem of making it difficult to know when the pipe has suffered from damage causing a leak or blockage. Corrosion, tree root infiltration, and construction can create problems in sewer lines, and the sooner you can detect the problem and call for plumbers, the better off you’ll be. Below are three signs you can watch for that will warn you that you may have a sewer line in trouble.

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3 Mistakes You May Make With Your Air Conditioner This Summer

Monday, May 18th, 2015

As summer starts, people all over the country will turn on their air conditioners to keep their homes comfortable during the heat. But many of those people will make basic mistakes with operating and caring for their air conditioning systems that will end up costing them money or even contribute to an early failure for the ACs.

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Signs You May Have a Slab Leak

Monday, May 11th, 2015

Slab leak is a professional plumbing term used for leaks that occur in water lines under the foundation of a home. The name can also apply to any leak that starts under a hard rock surface, but with homes it almost always means leaks in the cold and hot water pipes down in the concrete under the house. About 80% of slab leaks happen in the hot water lines, and the rest in the cold water lines.

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Air Conditioning Question: What Is the Evaporator Coil?

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Most homeowners know very little about how the air conditioner that keeps their house cool works. There’s no problem with this; that’s the reason we have highly trained professionals to take care of any issues an AC might encounter, as well as to handle installation and maintenance work. However, a bit of knowledge can always come in handy, and in this post we are going to shed some light on one of the most crucial components in your home’s cooling system: the evaporator coil.

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