Michall Daimion Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. Blog: Posts Tagged ‘HVAC’

How Cool Can Your AC Make Your Home?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
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Have you ever looked at the thermostat for your house and seen the lowest setting—which is usually 60°F—and wondered if the air conditioning system could make the house even cooler than that? True, you wouldn’t want it to be colder than 60°F, which is already too cold for most people, but what are the actual limits of an AC? 

This isn’t a frivolous question. Even if you don’t want to turn your home into an icebox during the summer, understanding the boundaries of what your air conditioner can do will help you know how best to set the thermostat and how to avoid pushing your AC harder than its limits. We’re going to examine those limits below.

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Is a Heat Pump a Viable Option for Winter Comfort?

Monday, December 14th, 2020
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If you have some familiarity with the heat pump, then you know that the major advantage of this comfort system installation is that it can operate as both a cooling and heating system. A heat pump is similar to a refrigerant-based air conditioner: it circulates refrigerant between two sets of coils, evaporating refrigerant in one coil to absorb heat and condensing the refrigerant in the other coil to release that heat. 

What makes a heat pump different from an AC is that it can change the direction it circulates refrigerant, causing the two coils to swap functions. An air conditioner can only move heat from inside the house to outside. But a heat pump can reverse the way it runs so that it moves heat from the outside to the inside. All it takes is an adjustment on the thermostat for the cooling system to become a heating system.

But this leads to an obvious concern … does this actually work in cold weather to make a viable choice for a year-round West Chester, PA, HVAC system?

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Heating Maintenance: Now Is the Time to Schedule It

Monday, November 16th, 2020
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The serious cold weather is about to arrive, and you know that it’ll be here to stay for a few months. If you haven’t yet arranged for Phoenixville, PA, HVAC service to inspect and tune-up your heating system, now is when we recommend you schedule it. Delaying this service only reduces its benefits and puts your household at a higher risk of having a heating system that doesn’t work, doesn’t work as well as it should, or wastes large amounts of money.

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5 Reasons Your AC Is Unevenly Cooling the House

Monday, September 21st, 2020
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When you turn on your air conditioner, you expect it to send cooled air to all the rooms in the house attached to the ventilation system. After all, that’s why you have a central air conditioner: to provide cooling all around your house.

But what if you notice the AC isn’t giving your house the even cooling treatment it’s supposed to? You can expect some temperature fluctuations in the house based on room placement, insulation, and window exposure. However, if you find rooms are much hotter than they should be while others are fine (or even too cold), you have a problem with the HVAC system.

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