You must look at your air conditioner as you would your vehicle, the more miles you drive the maintenance you will have to perform on your vehicle. Your air conditioner is no different, the average air conditioner that runs around 2200 hours in the Houston area, now if you take two identical air conditioning systems properly installed and left one set at 70 degrees and one set at 80 degrees, it stands to reason the one running at 70 degrees would fail before the one set at 80 degrees. 

Now if you take the same scenario, the system that’s set at 70 degrees and the coils and blower are cleaned annually, filter changed monthly while the one set at 80 degrees where no maintenance was ever performed, and the system never cleaned would more than likely have more break downs and shorten the life of the system and fail before the one that was properly maintained. On average in the Summer when operating your air conditioner, it consumes 60%-70% of your electric. Example: $250 light bill at 60% air conditioning consumption would be $150. Now if the condenser and evaporator coils become restricted with dirt and cause the system to decrease its efficiency by 30 % which could increase the operating cost you an extra $35-$45 dollars per month. 

This could lead to overpaying for electricity in one cooling season up to $400 more per year. Most maintenance plans cost between $150 to $350 per year per system. Pricing will vary depending on what the maintenance includes like: cleaning, services discounts, and equipment discounts. So, if you really calculate the cost of a yearly maintenance plan and having your system cleaned annually and what it would cost you extra on your light bill, it really becomes a wash. The biggest reason to have maintenance performed annually or biannually is keeping the system cleaned, finding issues that could cause breakdown or failure and extending the life of the air conditioning system. 

An air conditioning system is just like any other piece on machinery, periotic maintenance needs to be performed to keep it operating and functioning properly. Maintenance agreements will cost you yearly, but they are far cheaper than having an emergency NO COOLING call in the middle of Summer where an electrical part has failed causing the compressor to fail. The electrical part could have been detected on an annual maintenance inspection and been replaced saving thousands of dollars. For more information, please visit: https://totalcomfortsolutionsac.com/

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