Now that the weather is finally heating up & the Winter time is over, there’s something that you should do if you have central air conditioning in your home.
- A lot of people seem to forget about the exterior air conditioning component that is outside of your home.
Periodically, sticks, sod, weeds, or other outdoor debris can get too close to your air conditioning component & mess up your cooling system, then you want to make sure that before you turn the air conditioning system on for the first time in the summer time that you have completely cleaned around the air conditioning system component outside, and our air conditioning system plan is situated back behind the garage, & sometimes I completely forget that it’s even back there. Out of sight, out of mind, & all that! Well, a couple of years ago, I made the big mistake of not checking the air conditioning component out before I turned it on for the first time in the summer time & it was a sizable mistake. The morning that I turned it on for the first time, the weather outside was honestly hot. The temperature was genuinely up in the nineties & it wasn’t even lunchtime yet. I remember it well because the whole thing was legitimately traumatizing to me! When I turned the air conditioning system on, there was a odd grinding sound followed by a scraping sound outside. Then, abruptly, the air conditioning vents started to blow out a terrible, acrid smell into the house. I ran outside to look at the air conditioning system component & there was a giant raccoon inside of the air conditioning system unit. It was terrible! I will never turn the air conditioning on again unless I check it first.