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Read MoreAircon maintenance is an essential part of maintaining your home. Especially in hot and humid weather in Singapore. Being located near the equator has its advantages of having good sunny weather all year round but this brings about the high usage of air conditioning. With the high usage, this means higher wear and tear and is a machine, it needs its tender loving care as well for it to serve you and your family for years ahead.
You may have come across aircon servicing technicians that will always be telling you that you need to top-up your “aircon gas”. It seems that the technicians are always checking your aircon gas levels and they will always tell you that the gas is not sufficient. You need to know that your air conditioner does not need to fill up the gas every now and then. It is not like a car that runs on gas that needs to fill up. The freon gas is actually a refrigerant that runs through the cooling coils to give out the cold air when the compressed air is forced through the coils. So in short, it does not disappear. If there is not enough gas, then you should probably engage the technician to run a quick check on leakages instead of just topping up the gas. The technician will be happy to top it up as he is just coming back to charge you again and again.
Don’t let an AC technician just “top you off” with refrigerant. Remember: if your air conditioner is low on refrigerant, it’s leaking somewhere. If you just refill it, you’ll be low again soon.
A good AC tech will let you know that you have a leak and offer to fix it. Some companies don’t do that though because they’d rather just charge you to keep coming back and filling up your system.
Plus, doing it the right way is time-consuming. Fixing a refrigerant leak involves:
Don’t let an AC technician just “top you off” with refrigerant. Remember: if your air conditioner is low on refrigerant, it’s leaking somewhere. If you just refill it, you’ll be low again soon.
A good AC tech will let you know that you have a leak and offer to fix it. Some companies don’t do that though because they’d rather just charge you to keep coming back and filling up your system.
Plus, doing it the right way is time-consuming. Fixing a refrigerant leak involves:
Most refrigerant leaks are silent because they’re pretty small. But a large leak can cause your air conditioner to make a hissing or bubbling noise when it’s running.
Don’t let an AC technician just “top you off” with refrigerant. Remember: if your air conditioner is low on refrigerant, it’s leaking somewhere. If you just refill it, you’ll be low again soon.
A good AC tech will let you know that you have a leak and offer to fix it. Some companies don’t do that though because they’d rather just charge you to keep coming back and filling up your system.
Plus, doing it the right way is time-consuming. Fixing a refrigerant leak involves:
So the next time when you engage an aircon technician and he asks that you top up your gas, verify that the gas needs to top up. As him on how does he justify for the need.
Remember, engage only the professional and ethical aircon technicians to assist in your maintennace of your aircon units.
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