Planned Maintenance
Regular maintenance optimizes performance, prevents breakdowns, and ensures safe operation. Annual planned maintenance of your heating and air conditioning equipment is recommended. We recommend you have your air conditioning system(s) checked and configured for air conditioning mode operation early in the spring. Similarly, we recommend you have your heating system(s) checked and configured for heating mode operation early in the fall. Our defined and refined procedures ensure your system is thoroughly and economically checked and maintained.
Call 847-963-1583 now to schedule maintenance of your system.
- Air conditioning season maintenance
Air conditioning season maintenance consists of a 22+ point comprehensive tune-up. Humidifiers are shut down and humidifier by-pass dampers closed, if applicable, to ensure efficient air conditioning system operation. We ensure your system is operating efficiently by ensuring coils and air moving components are clean and by monitoring the refrigeration cycle. If your system requires refrigerant, we will recommend appropriate corrective action to find and repair any leak and recharge the system. Even if your system does not require refrigerant, we check for signs of refrigerant leakage and ensure caps and compression fittings where refrigerant is prone to leak are adequately tight. Motors and bearings requiring lubrication are oiled or greased, and if applicable, blower belts are checked for wear, aligned, and properly tensioned. Electrical connections are also thoroughly checked. The end result is that your system will be ready to keep you comfortably cool all summer long.
- Heating season maintenance
Heating season maintenance consists of a multi-point* comprehensive tune-up and safety inspection. Safety checks ensure fossil fuel burning systems are venting properly and that deadly carbon monoxide is not being released into the occupied space of your building structure. Other safety checks ensure your heating system will shut off properly in the event of a system component failure. Beyond safety, we ensure your system is operating efficiently by ensuring critical heat distribution system related components are operating properly and are clean. To ensure long term reliablity, motors and bearings requiring lubrication are properly oiled or greased. If applicable, blower belts are checked for wear, aligned, and properly tensioned. For fossil fuel burning systems, ignition system components requiring cleaning are cleaned, and system ignition is checked. To further ensure reliability, system electrical connections are also thoroughly checked, and any component prone to fail during the upcoming season is flagged for replacement. We also monitor your system through a heating cycle to ensure all aspects of its operation are proper.
We recommend you let us maintain any attached humidifier when performing the other heating season maintenance above. When maintained, your humidifier will be cleaned, configured, and have its proper operation verified. We can also replace its evaporative media for you.
*A 15+ point comprehensive tune-up and safety inspection is provided for all fossil fuel burning heating systems (natural gas or oil), and a 11+ point comprehensive tune-up is provided for resistive electric strip forced air heating systems. We also provide multi-point tune-ups for air source and geothermal heat pump systems.
