Importance of a Tune-up For Your HVAC Systems

HVAC systems are sensitive machines that are exposed to a wide range of functionality risks. These can include burnt wiring, rodent problems or some hardware malfunctions which can further create personal safety risks as well as a huge financial burden. Considering the expected rise in electricity prices over the next few years (by about 2% across the years), it makes sense to reduce these leakages; a large part of which comes from inefficient cooling systems.

What Problems To Expect From Malfunctioning HVACs

The only way you can mitigate these risks is through regular tune-ups for your HVAC systems. In specific, the risks of working with faulty HVAC systems include:

Unmaintained HVAC Pose Health Risks

Studies conducted by the EPA, found that poorly functioning systems can increase the likelihood of people exhibiting symptoms like headaches, fatigue, skin irritation and respiratory problems. Considering the importance of maintaining high productivity in the workplace, these problems create health problems that your workforce can easily do without.  

Electrical Failures

According to the NFPA, there the total damages from electrical fires amounted to a total of $3.1 billion and 440 deaths have been caused by faulty electrical wiring. 12% of these have been caused by air conditioning and heating equipment.

High Electricity Bills

About 45% of all energy use in the U.S. is attributed to air conditioning and heating systems. Energy efficiency is a major concern for many people using HVAC systems. A fair number of financial analysis reports have pointed out how energy bills sky rocket because of faulty fuel lines as well as gas leakages in HVAC systems.  

Causes for HVAC breakdowns

There are many reasons for why HVAC systems might start malfunctioning or why the wiring burns out. These can include:

Rodent Infestations

Mice and rats can chew through these wires so that the HVAC system short circuits. HVAC systems use large amounts of electrical energy to function and these rodents can cause major electrical breakdowns across entire buildings with their wire chewing.

The Life-Spans of HVAC Systems

Infrequent tune-ups and maintenance can reduce the life-spans of your air conditioning units. If you keep these well maintained, they can keep going for up to 20 years without presenting any problems. Many of these breakdowns completely at the 5-year mark and before that can make for a lot of grief.

In this time span, your ACs might freeze up or fail to deliver optimal air conditioning because of problems that have not been detected yet.

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