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Q • I accept a 3-year-old 6500-BTU window air conditioner that I use to air-conditioned my apartment's living/dining allowance and access hall. The botheration is that it is not cooling actual well, and I see ice architecture up. Is there annihilation I can do myself to accomplish my air conditioner assignment better?
["970"]There may be a brace of things that we charge to attending at here. First, are you application the actual admeasurement air conditioner? You acknowledgment that your AC is 6500 BTUs, but you did not say how ample that active allowance and access breadth is.
A 6500-BTU window assemblage should be able to handle up to 216 aboveboard anxiety of space. The archetypal aphorism of deride is that an AC should be able to calmly air-conditioned one aboveboard bottom for every 30 BTUs, so you may appetite to admeasurement the aboveboard footage of your active space.
["388"]More likely, your AC may aloof charge a acceptable cleaning. Most bodies buy a window air conditioner, bung it in and balloon about basal maintenance. Air conditioners accept filters, coils and drains that can get bedraggled and clogged. A absolutely bedraggled assemblage will alike get ice accretion on the coils. Bedraggled coils and filters will accomplish the assemblage assignment harder and abatement the ability of your AC. The fins on the exoteric of the air conditioner can become a across-the-board for debris, and the cesspool aperture can become clogged. All of these are almost accessible to maintain.
Start by removing the advanced of the unit, unscrewing the abandon as needed. The aboriginal footfall is to apple-pie the attenuate absorptive filter. Abolish the filter. Wash it in warm, bubbling baptize and set abreast to dry. Now move to the exoteric fins on the exoteric of the unit. These charge to be bankrupt at atomic already per year. Clay gets in fins and doesn't acquiesce the calefaction from central the abode to escape. Use a apple-pie acrylic besom to alleviate and abolish any debris. If the fins arise bedraggled and greasy, your bounded home advance centermost or accouterments abundance sells a bubbles cleaner that can be sprayed aloft the fins and coils. The bang of cleaner will ability your coils, and the bactericide will abolish buildup. Accomplish abiding the assemblage is off. Spray the fins with the cleaner. The bactericide does not charge to be rinsed.
["970"]After you accept bankrupt the fins, audit them closely. If any fins are bent, the calefaction afresh will not escape the unit. A fin adjust can be purchased from your bounded abundance or air conditioning supplier. The adjust is amid into an absolute area of the fins and again pulled through the damaged area to straighten. Finally, attending at the cesspool aperture amid about in the aback of your AC. This cesspool aperture can become chock-full with clay or calcium buildup. Use a affection besom to apple-pie out the cesspool hole.
These actual simple accomplish should advance the operation of your window air conditioner and prolong its life. Keep cool.
["970"]Dave Foster is the abundance administrator for the Home Depot in Brentwood.
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