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: In my experience as a HVAC contractor and as a HVAC technician in Clearwater Florida i can safely say there are many different questions a customers will have, when choosing the system they want for their air conditioning replacement. There are many different brands and seer rating that you can choose from. Today i would like to give you some tips on the SEER ratings and what we at newtons heating and air conditioning recommend. Now you maybe wondering what even is a seer rating for a air conditioning system. All units have and them, even the portables that you buy at Walmart or home depot. The government or the united states department of energy actually mandates the minimum seer you are allowed to install in your home and this creates a lot of problems in my opinion. To put SEER into laymen’s terms its just how much your air conditioning system consumes in electricity. So all of the equipment manufactures actually have to follow these rules when manufacturing the equipment. So at a typical company or especially at a larger company you will be given multiple options of SEER ratings for your equipment rating typically ranging from 14 seer to 21 seer. So higher the SEER rating the better right? It takes less electricity so i should have a lower electric bill! Well i will tell you that a higher SEER equipment actually comes with a catch 22. Let me explain, on a basic 14 seer system on the condenser you will have a capacitor and contactor that turns your equipment off and on. These systems are very basic and are easy to test and best yet most parts on a 14 seer equipment we will have in stock on our truck. So a 21 SEER air conditioner is the same right in its reliability? Well here comes the trade off for that lower electric bill. Firstly they are so expensive that i don’t think the increase of cost will ever be offset by the increase amount of your new equipment for your electric bill. I have seen higher SEER equipment be any where from 50% to 100% more expensive than a 14 SEER equipment. Lets put that fact aside, are they at least just as reliable as a 14 SEER air conditioner. I can safely say as a HVAC technician and as a HVAC contractor in Clearwater Florida that they have the most amount of problems out of any unit. In Florida we have a very unstable power grid, meaning when you come home all of your clocks are reset or maybe your lights flicker when your watching tv. These changes in your electric are called power surges or brown outs and you guessed it. This is the number 1 reason of why high efficiency equipment fails beside all of the extra bells and whistles that always seem to have problems. Lastly the parts or so difficult to get. typically these parts for your higher SEER equipment are weeks out. When we call the supply house asking for the parts on the system I’ve seen lead times of getting the parts as long as over a month. Lastly the cost for these parts are so expensive that when your unit is out of warranty i have seen boards cost easily $2000 vs a 14 seer equipment having a bad capacitator that is on our truck and costs less than $200 out the door. So in conclusion when your are considering your new equipment for your air conditioner installation we highly recommend 14 seer equipment. This is due to higher SEER equipment not being able to offset the price of your electric bill. They are much less reliable and when a part breaks it very expensive and can take a long time to get the parts. If you like this article and would like to see more like this you can visit us at www.newtonsheatingandairconditioning.com