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 at newtons heating and air conditioning or really just in the air conditioning industry i can safely say there is a couple of signs you should look out for to know if you have a good HVAC technician for your Clearwater Florida home. One of the most over looked aspects in our industry especially with newer equipment is something called sub cooling and super heat. You maybe thinking what is that? I will do my best to put it in laymen’s terms so that it is easy to understand. You can think of your subcooling as how much refrigerant is getting to your indoor unit. Super heat you can think of it has how much of the refrigerant is actually inside your indoor unit. These two crucial numbers can tell you a lot of what is going on with your system. With some of the older equipment such as r22 systems, technicians tended to just feel the pipe and tell if its cold and just look at one pressure on their gauges. One of the most common expression in our industry is beer can cold for this pipe. This may have worked on r22 systems because they are much more forgiving than, what the newer equipment is for your refrigerant charge. So most people that have been doing this for a long time were taught this way from the very beginning and maybe still using this practice. I admittedly was taught this way when i first started in the HVAC industry and than the nightmare happens. Customer calls back and says my unit is not cooling and we go out there and the pressure looks good? The pipe feels beer can cold, what can be happening? Thankfully i talked to another HVAC technician that I was working at the company i was working at and now is currently working with newtons heating and air conditioning. He asked me what is your subcooling and super heat? So now me looking like a deer in head lights asking what do you mean by that? the HVAC technician explained to me exactly what is and what the different tool was that i needed in order to check it. So i go to the supply house and pick up these gauges that tell you sub cooling and super heating and sure enough the unit was way under charged causing the unit to not cool. On the flip side I’ve seen it where people will just charge by pressure and the unit would be way over charged. This is terrible because if your unit is way over charged it can destroy your compressor which is one of the biggest ticket items on your system. So in conclusion ask your HVAC technician is my sub cooling and super heat proper and see if he looks like a deer in headlights and make sure he can actually take care of your Clearwater Florida home. You can also check out our website to see more articles like this at www.newtonsheatingandairconditioning.com