As the summer days stretch on and the temperature continues to climb, your air conditioner works tirelessly to keep your home cool and comfortable. Here are some valuable tips to help your AC get through the dog days of summer, ensuring it operates efficiently and effectively while saving you money and preventing unexpected breakdowns. We can help with our air conditioning service in Shreveport if you need us.
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Why Does My AC Keep Running for So Long?
Monday, July 15th, 2024
As summer temperatures soar, your air conditioner becomes your best friend, keeping your home cool and comfortable. However, if you notice your AC running for unusually long periods, it’s not just your energy bill that will suffer. Long AC cycles can indicate underlying issues that need prompt attention.
Let’s delve into the common reasons why your AC might be running longer than it should and what you can do about it, such as AC repair.
How You Can Lower Your AC Bills This Summer
Monday, June 3rd, 2024
Summer is here, and while we all enjoy the warm weather, the rising temperatures often bring soaring air conditioning bills. At Hall’s Heating, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration, we understand the importance of keeping your home cool without breaking the bank. Here are some effective ways to lower your AC bills this summer, starting with the crucial step of scheduling air conditioning maintenance in Bossier City, LA.
Here’s Why We Recommend AC Maintenance Every Spring
Monday, May 6th, 2024
At Hall’s, we understand the importance of keeping your home comfortable all year round, and that begins with ensuring your air conditioning system is in peak condition. While you may not think much about your AC during the cooler months, when spring arrives, it’s the perfect time to schedule your annual air conditioning maintenance.
We highly recommend having your AC system checked by a professional HVAC technician every spring. This helps to ensure your system runs efficiently, extends its lifespan, and saves you money on energy bills. Here are the top reasons why scheduling AC maintenance in the spring is essential:
Is Duct Cleaning Worth It?
Monday, April 24th, 2023
You probably already know how important air conditioner maintenance is for extending the life of your home’s AC unit. But what about duct cleaning in Shreveport, LA? Is that equally as important? The short answer is, yes.
Duct cleaning offers a variety of benefits for both your home and your family. You can keep reading to learn more about why duct cleaning is an important investment to make as well as what you can expect from a duct cleaning appointment.
It’s Still Spring, So Don’t Delay With AC Maintenance
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Air conditioning maintenance can be done at any time of the year—but it makes the most sense and does the most good to have it done in the spring. That way, the air conditioning is tuned-up and repaired (if it needs repairs) right before the hot weather arrives. The timing couldn’t be better!
If you haven’t arranged for an AC maintenance appointment with an HVAC technician yet, please do it as soon as you can. Summer and the hot, humid weather is coming up fast.
Why Your AC May Overheat and Stop Working
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Your air conditioning system works hard on hot days—that’s what it’s there for, after all! But even an air conditioning system can get too hot, causing its motors to trip the circuit breaker to the system. You can reset the breaker, but it’s likely to happen again and again and again. Not an inconvenience you want during the summer!
An air conditioner is designed to handle extremely hot days, but malfunctions can cause it to overheat and trip a breaker. We’re going to list the most common malfunctions that create this problem and what you can do to help prevent them.
Summer Problems You’ll Avoid Thanks to Spring AC Maintenance
Monday, April 16th, 2018
We always encourage our customers to schedule spring air conditioning maintenance with us. We don’t want to be a pest about this, but it is extremely important to have these inspections and tune-ups done each year before the big summer heat and humidity arrives. There are many reasons why air conditioning maintenance is such an important job, and we’re going to look at a few specific problems an AC that doesn’t have spring maintenance done might run into.
How to Shut Down Your AC at the End of the Season
Monday, October 30th, 2017
Eventually, your air conditioning system is going to shut down for the rest of the year. The cold settles in for winter, and it won’t be until spring arrives that you’ll turn on your cooling system once more. But you can’t simply trust that your AC will leap to life next year, fresh from a winter nap and ready to get to work once more. Air conditioners don’t work that way! You’ll need to schedule maintenance for it in spring, the same way we encourage homeowners now to schedule maintenance for their heating systems.
And there are a few steps you can take now to help your AC shut down for the season and remain in good condition over its winter break. You can call on us if you need any other air conditioning service in Benton, LA or elsewhere in our service area.
How a Dirty Evaporator Coil Affects Your Air Conditioner
Monday, June 26th, 2017
Where does the actual “cooling” in an air conditioner occur? It happens along the surface and fins of the evaporator coil, located in the indoor cabinet of the air conditioner—which is also known as the (surprise) evaporator. Warm air drawn through the return air ducts by a blower fan passed over the coil, and the cold refrigerant moving through the coil evaporates. This draws heat from the air (as well as moisture), lowering the temperature of the air. The air continues into the ventilation system and then to the various rooms around the house.
It’s important for an the evaporator coil and fins to have a clean surface. During regular air conditioning maintenance, HVAC technicians always make a check of the coil and fins to see if they are developing dirt and grime across their surfaces. If they are, the technicians clean off the dirt so the air conditioner will work at its best during the summer.