Introduction: Welcome to newtons heating and air conditioning blog. Today we are talking to our customers in Clearwater Florida. I am HVAC contractor and at newtons heating and air conditioning we have experienced HVAC technicians that are working under me and we have combined working experience of nearly 40 years between just two of us. We specialize in HVAC repair, HVAC maintenance, HVAC installation and we can take care of all of your HVAC service needs in Clearwater Florida. In addition for Clearwater Florida customers we are pros at doing any heat pump repair, they are our specialty and are very common in Clearwater Florida. We not only strive to be a Affordable HVAC company in heating and cooling but the best HVAC company in Pinellas county. In our blogs you will be able to learn about proper AC repairs and heating repairs and great HVAC installation tips. I hope you enjoy this article and we hope with these informationally rich articles that we maybe be able to take care of all your residential HVAC services needs. The main take away of these articles is to inform you about the best practices you can do as a homeowner and how to protect your self from unfair business practices. We do truly believe in honesty over sales and will do our best to do only Ac repairs or Ac service before ever recommending a ac installation. We know getting a Air conditioner installation is one of the biggest investments you can make as a homeowner. The last thing i want to make clear before we move onto this article. The most important thing you can do as a homeowner to help prevent unexpected air conditioner repairs or heater repairs is do get air conditioning maintenances or HVAC tune ups regularly or twice a year. While getting an annual maintenances done does help, getting an Air conditioner service done twice a year is better to avoid costly Air conditioning replacement. Thank you and we hope you enjoy this article, We love serving Clearwater Florida!
Our topic for today: One thing i recommend to all of my customer at newtons heating and air conditioning whether i was a HVAC technician or a HVAC contractor in Clearwater Florida is to clean your drain line. So you maybe wondering how do i do this? Well let me explain what is kind of going on and why you need to clean them regularly. Your air conditioning system has a evaporator coil on your indoor unit and it gets to be about 40 degrees. All of your indoor air passes through it and you get cold air. Because its so cold though it makes condensation and a lot of it. This is especially true when its in the middle of summer and your unit is running all of time. Sense there is constantly water in this drain line it will start to build up with algae. This is actually extremely common for HVAC units in Clearwater Florida and all of Pinellas county. When it becomes to much it plugs the whole 3/4 inch pvc pipe and your drain line back ups. Now this is a problem because if it backs up it actually goes into your float switch and shuts your system off. The float switch has something that looks like a bobber and as the water rises so does the bobber and than it trips. If your unlucky you may not have one at all. I cant count how many homes in Clearwater Florida that I’ve been to a customers home and the drain line backs up and starts dumping water onto the floor or celling. Nothing is worse than your drain line backing up and making your ceiling fall because there is no safety switch. So how do you clean it and should all homes have a float switch? There is only one style of unit called a package unit and the whole unit is outside so on these systems only you don’t need a float switch but if your air handler is anywhere in your home, your unit should have one. So what can you do as a home owner to help prevent this? Firstly getting regular air conditioner maintenance is the best thing you can do so we can not only clear your drain line but check your float switches. With that being said as a homeowner you can do 2 things yourself. You can put white vinegar down your drain line and that will help treat it but it does not do anything for any algae that is already in your drain line. What you can do as a homeowner is purchase a shop vac to clear your drain line which is the way we do it as well. What you do is go outside and look for a 3/4 inch white pvc pipe. You take the shop vac hose and put it over the drain and you can use your hand to make a good seal. This will pull out all of the algae and if you did this about every 3 months you really wouldn’t ever have a drain line problem. If you like this article and would like to see more you can also visit us at www.newtonsheatingandairconditioning.com