If you have a heat pump, you may have heard the recommendation that the system requires service twice each year, compared to the standard once each year with other types of HVAC units. This is because a heat pump is operating around the clock all year.
You can keep reading to learn why biannual maintenance is so important for your heat pump, including some of the risks that you take on when you skip out on the maintenance appointment. When you’re ready, you can give our team a call to schedule your heat pump service in Kenner.
The All-in-One Solution
A heat pump is a single unit that offers both heating and cooling all within the same system. You may be thinking that you already know that and are wondering what that has to do with maintenance. Let’s take a minute to talk about how you would schedule maintenance if you had a separate heater and air conditioner.
Once each year, you would schedule AC maintenance to keep your air conditioner working at its best. You would do the same thing for your separate heating unit. When you schedule maintenance twice for your heat pump, just think about it as if you are scheduling maintenance once for the unit as an air conditioner and another time for the unit as a heater.
Understanding HVAC Maintenance
The entire goal of HVAC maintenance is to catch problems early or prevent problems from ever starting to begin with. When our team can consistently work on your heat pump, we can make minor adjustments and replace parts all along as they wear out. This helps to ensure that the rest of your heat pump is working at its best and not taking on additional wear and tear because of strain.
When you skip out on maintenance appointments, you run the risk of wear and tear building up inside of the system and causing bigger problems. Even if your heat pump doesn’t break down, it may face more frequent repairs without regular maintenance.
Homeowner Maintenance Tips
There are also steps that you can take us a homeowner in between those professional maintenance appointments to ensure that your heat pump is well cared for. For example, you can choose an air filter wisely that has a strong rating to capture more particles so dust has less of a chance of getting into the system.
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