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Get Ready for Professional AC Installation: How to Prepare Your Home

Having new cooling equipment installed is always exciting. With a new air conditioner, you can look forward to better temperature and humidity control, cleaner indoor air, and lower energy bills. Professional installation optimizes these benefits and others by ensuring that new ACs are correctly sized for their service areas, attached to well-fitted and high-functioning ducting, and set up according to manufacturer specifications. Although your AC installer will handle all the heavy lifting and detail work, there are a few things that you can do to make this process a seamless and easy one.

Collect and Share Info for Accurate AC Sizing

When HVAC technicians size air conditioners, they consider far more than just the cooling capacities of different AC models and the square footage of homes. They use the Manual J Load Calculation, which takes into account:

  • Ceiling heights
  • Window sizes and locations
  • Number of building occupants
  • Insulation amounts and R-values

When asked, be ready to share these and other details with your service provider. This way, you can avoid short cycling, overheating, premature failure, and other issues that are common among oversized and undersized units.

Clean Up Your Back and Side Yards

Central air conditioners and ductless mini-split ACs have indoor air handling units and outside condenser/compressor units. AC condensers are typically mounted to concrete or composite pads in back or side yards. These highly pressurized components must be on stable, level ground. For optimum airflow, they also need at least 24 inches of clearance on all sides.

If you have pooling water in your yard or other plumbing or grading issues, take care of these things long before your installer arrives. You should also trim back all hedges, bushes, grass, and trees, and clear out all debris.

Remove Clutter Near Your Indoor Storage Area

Your technician will need easy access to your current indoor air handler to remove it. Keep your air conditioner’s indoor storage area clear. Make sure that there are no tripping hazards in your hallway or adjoining rooms. Your installation team will be carrying heavy, cumbersome equipment.

Provide Easy-Access Parking

Among the best ways to make your home more accommodating for HVAC technicians is by reserving a curbside or front-door parking space. This way, they’ll have a short distance to haul your equipment and they won’t have to travel far to visit their truck for tools.

Your HVAC technician will size your new system, help you choose the right air conditioner for your budget and goals, and pull your old equipment out. AC installers handle everything from thermostat upgrades to all necessary air duct modifications. The best way to help is by making sure that indoor and outdoor storage areas are clean and easy to access. For top-notch air conditioning installation in Vineland, NJ, contact Laury Heating today.