Keep your cool, Montgomery County
We repair and replace air conditioners, ductless systems included in Montgomery County, Ohio. Repairs, replacements and seasonal tune-ups, all priced before we start. Most calls get handled the same day, and someone answers the emergency line at any hour.
AC repair, replacement, and ductless systems for humid Ohio summers — fixed right the first time, at a price you approve before we start.
Every way a Montgomery County home stays cool.
Should the fan be set to AUTO or ON?
AUTO for most houses, most of the time. On ON the blower runs continuously, which does even out temperatures between rooms and keeps air moving through the filter. The catch in a humid climate is that when the compressor stops, moisture is still sitting on the indoor coil, and a fan that keeps running evaporates it straight back into the house. You get a cool, clammy result and a higher bill. If you want the air mixing benefit, a variable-speed blower on low is the version of this that does not fight the dehumidification.
Should I be looking at a heat pump instead?
Worth pricing alongside, particularly if the furnace is also near the end. A heat pump is an air conditioner that can run backwards, so it cools in summer exactly like the unit you are replacing and then covers a good part of the heating season too. In this climate it usually pairs with the existing gas furnace as a dual-fuel system, with the furnace picking up when it gets properly cold. The thing to check first is your electrical panel, because that is the surprise that turns up after the quote rather than before it.
Is it cheaper to leave the AC at one temperature all day?
No. This one persists because it sounds sensible, but a house loses heat to the outside in proportion to the difference between inside and out. Letting the house drift up while nobody is home narrows that gap for hours and the system spends less energy overall, even counting the longer run to pull it back down. The one caveat is size: a setback of more than a few degrees on an undersized system can mean it never quite catches up on the hottest days, which is a comfort problem rather than a cost one.
When should the AC be serviced, and does it matter?
Spring, before the first stretch of real heat, and the timing matters more than the visit does. Everyone discovers their air conditioner is broken in the same week, which is the week nobody has availability. A tune-up ahead of that finds the weak capacitor and the dirty coil while it is a scheduled visit rather than an emergency one. It also gives you a measurement to compare against next year, which is how a slow refrigerant leak gets caught before it takes the compressor with it.