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If you’ve heard of Aircon Maintenance but never
had yours done before, you might be skeptical.
You get your car maintenanced, you book your annual
physical, you even go to regular dentist appointments.
Just like you wouldn’t wait on a doctor visit until a
medical emergency, you shouldn’t wait to do
maintenance. You should have your
unit serviced twice a year—once for heating season,
once for cooling. Maintenance is vital in making sure
your unit keeps your family comfortable all year. It
also ensures the safety of the unit’s parts. Some
parts can leak toxins like carbon monoxide into your
home if they go unchecked.
Our technicians will make sure your unit is working
properly, and they’ll help keep it clean! A dirty
unit is more likely to have problems later on.
Not only that, but we breathe
about 12000 liters of air every day. Children have higher
respiratory rates (they breathe more), so if you
have kids, they’re more susceptible to contaminants
in the air. Wouldn’t you like to know the air in your
home is clean?
The Benefits of Maintenance
Not only is maintenance a good idea for safety and
comfort, but it’ll save you money in the long run.
People who have their maintenance
completed twice a year report 95% fewer breakdowns
and up to a 30% decrease on their energy bill!
Regular maintenance will increase the lifespan of
your unit. Your Aircon unit can likely live for
12-15 years if it’s properly maintained. For every
year your unit goes without maintenance, it loses some
of its efficiency until it eventually breaks down and
can cost your family thousands to repair or replace.
Heat Exchangers (Indoor units)
If your blower gets weighted with dust, it will slow
the flow of air, and your motor can burn out.
The constant on-off of your indoor unit leaves it
vulnerable to cracks, introducing carbon monoxide
to your family’s home. Have you ever drank
from a straw with a hole in it? You probably didn’t
get much of your drink to come through the straw.
The same thing can happen with your indoor.
If there’s a crack or hole in the piping / tubing,
your indoor might not start up, but will definitely not
do it’s job. We’ll be sure to check your gas pressure
to make sure it’s appropriate for your system!
One of the main things we look for during maintenance
visits is cracks in the condensers and the pipe run,
simply because they’re so dangerous—we wanna keep
your family safe!
Air Conditioner Maintenance
No matter what kind of system your home has, our
technicians will check all the wires and their
connections to make sure they’re secure and
haven’t wiggled loose. This includes any electronic
elements of your system inside and outside your home.
During the spring,
Atomic Aircon & Refrigeration services will clean
your outdoor unit to make sure it can pull air without
dirt and debris blocking it. Everyone needs their
outdoor unit cleaned at least once.
When your home seems too hot or too cold, it’s
usually first instinct to look at your thermostat and
adjust the temperature. We know it’s
important to have the flexibility to change the
temperature in your home, and that’s why we always
check your thermostat! Our techs wanna make
sure yours is performing and displaying accurately to
give you maximum control.
The Outdoor Unit
Your outdoor unit is like a vacuum cleaner.
If you never empty the bag of your vacuum, it won’t be
able to pull up dust or dirt anymore. It’ll just stop
working.
Not all problems with your AIRCON SYSTEM unit
come from dust and debris, but most do.
Your outdoor unit pulls in a lot of air to keep your
home cool (it cycles the hot air from the outdoor
condenser to cool the gas which is then
cycled through the indoor to emit cool air inside your
home) — dust, grass clippings, animal fur, and
pollen come with that air.
Over time, the outside of your unit gets covered
in all this nastiness. Not only that, but when it rains,
those pollutants get caked onto your unit.
When your unit can’t breathe, it will work harder and
harder to keep your home cool, but eventually, it’ll
burn out (after it racks up your utility bills).
Regular maintenance with ATOMIC ensures your
unit stays clean! When we come out to your home
for your AC maintenance, we’ll take the lid off
the unit to get a really thorough cleaning.
Our technician will spray your
unit with an eco-friendly solution on the inside and
out that helps peel all that caked on grime right off!
Then, we’ll hose down your unit from the
inside. We don’t want all that gross stuff going into
your unit, so we spray it out!
Your Condenser Fan
Sometimes, the wires that deliver power to the motor
in your outdoor unit can break loose.
This results in one of two things: the blades gets
caught in the wires and the motor gets burnt out, or
the wires get cut. Neither
option is pretty, but during your maintenance visit,
our technician will ensure all wires are secure.
Leaks in Your System
Our techs will measure your refrigerant levels in your
system to make sure it isn’t leaking or wasting
precious refrigerant. Refrigerant can be toxic to you
and your family, so we’re extra thorough about
checking for these leaks.
Insects in Your Unit
Most of the time, outdoor units are in your yard on the
ground. For some reason, all outdoor electronic devices
seem to attract bugs, especially ants.
When it comes to your air conditioner, ants are
more than just a little pest. Ants can short out
high volt energy contacts!
The Indoor Unit
The part of your unit that resides in your house
includes a part called a blower wheel. The blower
wheel helps pull humid air from your house,
keeping things much more comfortable for you and
your family! Because of the humidity in your house,
the electrical components can get moist
and dust can stick to them. Over time, added weight
to the wheel will cause it to come out of balance and
it won’t be able to push air well. Your
unit will have to work longer to achieve the same
outcome, and your evaporator coil will ice up.
Not only that, but when dust sticks to the wheel
itself, it can cause the motor to overheat.
All of this can cause chaos with your utility bill!
Scheduling Your Aircon Maintenance
Making sure you schedule your Aircon maintenance
twice a year is crucial if you wanna keep your family
safe and comfortable all year.
ATOMIC technicians are highly trained and
participate in ongoing training to keep
up-to-date on the latest methods of
protecting your family.
We service, maintain and repair ALL makes and types
of air conditioners.
Our charges is as follow for the KOSH (Klerksdorp,
Orkney, Stilfontein and Hartebeesfontein area):
R 350.00 for the first aircon on site (limited to 4 aircons),
and R250.00 for all consecutive aircons on site (limited
to 3 additional aircons)
We DO NOT do minor services, we do complete
maintenance services. MINOR services to be done by
the customer (eg: cleaning of the indoor filters)
