IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR AIR CONDITIONER

• Maintain your air-conditioning system
  • Perform periodic maintenance to the air-conditioning equipment at your home throughout annual maintenance contracts. Servicing AC systems has generally significant role in maintaining healthy and comfort environment for people living inside the house. It also helps to reduce downtimes of operating equipment, increase their life span, and reduce overall energy consumption. The need for periodic servicing of the indoor and outdoor units becomes essential in this hot and sandy climate, which even requires continuous cleaning/treatment of heat exchanging coils, not only to improve its efficiency but also to maintain its cooling capabilities.
• Adjust your thermostat set-points
  • Several building parameters affect the optimum temperature set-point at which occupant comfort is satisfied. This would also vary from one room to another inside the house. These factors include;
    • Nature of occupancy, number of occupants and type of activity
    • Surface area of walls exposed to outdoors and glazing type and area
    • Capacity of the cooling unit in relation to the heat load of the specific room
    • Operating condition of the cooling unit and its maintenance condition
    • Location of thermostat unit controller and its temperature measuring sensor inside the room as to the representation of that location for average temperatures in the seating areas.
  • Test various temperature levels within a range 1-4oC above current set-point, at different zones/rooms in the house during different occupancy scenarios, and for different times of the day, week, or season. Implement the change and conduct the trial experiments of different adjustments in each part of the house, and without affecting the internal thermal comfort conditions.
• Reduce cooling demand in unused rooms
  • Avoid setting thermostat units to lowest temperature values in normally unoccupied areas or when there’s no occupancy in the house. Research shows the potential of saving 1% of cooling energy for every 1 degree increase in temperature set-point for a daily period of 8 hours.
• Reduce infiltration and cooling air loss
  • Inspect doors and windows at your home and make sure these are well insulated and free of openings. Prevent thermal leakage and undesired air flows by ensuring all frame openings are properly sealed.

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