How Having Your AC Maintained Benefitted You This Summer
Rodger Brown • August 28, 2023
A man is working on an air conditioner outside of a brick building.

If you invested in air conditioning maintenance last year, you may be wondering what you got out of it. After all, your air conditioner probably worked great without any hiccups. Do you really need to invest in AC maintenance if nothing is wrong?

Scheduling AC maintenance in Beavercreek, OR consistently every single year is the best way to take care of your unit. If you haven’t scheduled your service yet for this year, give us a call today. You can also keep reading to learn more about the benefits you experienced this summer from investing in AC maintenance for all of the previous years.

Benefits of AC Maintenance

Justifying AC maintenance is easy enough, but the results aren’t always obvious at first. When AC maintenance is done right, you don’t actually notice a difference in your air conditioner. It may leave you wondering if you really need AC maintenance at all. Isn’t your air conditioner working great? You may have heard the old saying “Don’t fix it if it’s not broken.”

But that’s the thing about AC maintenance: the only time you notice a difference is when you skip out on it. Skipping out on maintenance for your air conditioner can lead to higher utility bills, frequent AC problems, and a less comfortable home. But if you invested in air conditioner maintenance last year, you haven’t had to worry about any of these things.

Peace of Mind

Aside from the tangible benefits of air conditioning maintenance, the peace of mind that it offers is perhaps one of the greatest benefits. If you’re like most families, you have a lot going on. You work and you have children at school and in various activities to keep up with. You even have your own obligations outside of your work and your family. You don’t need to add to your list of things to worry about. It’s already long enough.

When you invest in air conditioner maintenance, you can breathe a sigh of relief, because you know you won’t have to worry about your air conditioner for the next year. Even if you have to spend money during your AC maintenance appointment to make repairs, that’s the whole point. Any investments you make during an AC maintenance appointment are proactive. You are fixing small problems so they do not become big problems later on.

Savings

You also save money on your energy bills. When you think about AC maintenance affecting a single summer of AC operation, it’s honestly probably not that big of a deal. The amount that you would have spent more on your energy bills for a few months probably doesn’t even add up to the cost of the maintenance you invested in.

But AC maintenance is not about a single summer. It is about the entire lifespan of your air conditioner. And every AC maintenance appointment you have scheduled up to this point has helped you save money year after year. So while a single summer may not add up to a lot, 15 to 20 years’ worth of energy bills from your air conditioner can add up quickly when you’re talking about saving money.

Lifespan

If your air conditioner is older than 15 years, then your AC maintenance has earned you additional years of life beyond what was expected from your air conditioner. Keeping up with AC maintenance can easily mean that your air conditioner will last for 20 years or longer. All of those years are extra on top of the 15-year average lifespan for a residential unit.

The team at California Indoor Comfort is here to help. Please call Sydni, our Office Extraordinaire, to schedule your next appointment ! We will take care of you from there!

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