Reasons Why it Pays to Invest in Preventive Maintenance

A reliable HVAC system is essential for your comfort, especially during our extended cooling seasons here in the Coastal Bend. Investing in preventive maintenance is the easiest way to keep your comfort system in optimal operating condition.

What’s Involved in Preventive HVAC Maintenance?

You might think that periodic HVAC equipment tuneups are enough to properly maintain your system. While twice-yearly visits are a good starting point, true preventive care goes beyond basic tuneups with a proactive approach toward optimizing the performance of the entire HVAC system and its different components. Depending on your particular comfort system, this may include a central air conditioner, heat pump, furnace, ductwork, air cleaning or filtration unit and zoning elements.

This system-wide approach to maintenance gives your technician a chance to uncover emerging issues so you can have them addressed before they develop into serious problems and costly repairs. It’s also an opportunity for you to learn about steps you can take to enhance the system’s overall performance.

Preventive HVAC Maintenance Provides Substantial Paybacks

To help you realize the value of comprehensive HVAC care, here are some of the paybacks you’ll get from the investment:

• Preserved energy efficiency. Maintaining your entire HVAC system helps the equipment retain its original energy efficiency rather than having it decline over time, and this keeps your consumption and operating costs in check.

• Repair prevention. Minor issues are always easier and less costly to fix, so finding and correcting problems early can prevent expensive, extensive repairs down the road.
• Enhanced safety. Keeping your HVAC system in optimal operating condition can help avert safety hazards, such as equipment overheating, the risk of fire, and carbon monoxide and gas leaks.
• Longer lifespan. When mechanical components are well cared for, they tend to last longer and even exceed their expected lifespan.
• Comfort and health advantages. Keeping the equipment functioning at optimal levels also helps avert temperature variations, high humidity, and health problems related to poor indoor air quality.

To learn more reasons why preventive maintenance is a worthwhile investment to protect the HVAC system in your Coastal Bend home, contact us at CCAC.

Our goal is to help educate our customers in Corpus Christi, Texas about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Guide or call us at 361-678-2495.

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