{"id":640,"date":"2012-08-13T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-08-10T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:54:52","slug":"washington-dc-air-conditioning-tip-things-you-should-never-do-to-your-air-conditioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/air-conditioning\/washington-dc-air-conditioning-tip-things-you-should-never-do-to-your-air-conditioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC Air Conditioning Tip: Things You Should Never Do To Your Air Conditioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s a large central system or a small on, with proper care and maintenance, your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/air-conditioning\">Washington DC air conditioner<\/a> should last for a quite a while.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, people can do simple things which, in retrospect, should have obviously been avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t block the air intake&#8211;air is vital to the process, so laying anything over the unit (a towel or clothes to dry) will significantly strain the motor.\u00a0 Always make sure there is enough clearance.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t block the vents&#8211;likewise in a home, it is easy to move a sofa or lay an area rug over a grate in the floor or cover an unsightly vent in the wall with a pretty painting.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t think it will run forever without cleaning the fins, vents and changing the filter at least once a heating season;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t leave the units exposed in winter&#8211;always cover when not in use for long periods of time;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t bury the condensate drain in the ground&#8211;in central units it is vital that the drain is left with a clear flow away from the house;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t steam clean or use hot water to clean the fins&#8211;damage and corrosion can easily be caused by the heat; flush with warm water or spray.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t remove the overload relay to force continuous running&#8211;VERY dangerous and a guarantee of damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A little attention to your Washington DC\u00a0air\u00a0conditioning\u00a0\u00a0goes a long way to ensure years of comfort. Call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/contact\">Polar Bear Air Conditioning<\/a>\u00a0if you need to schedule a maintenance visit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s a large central system or a small on, with proper care and maintenance, your Washington DC air conditioner should last for a quite a while.  Sometimes, however, people can do simple things which, in retrospect, should have obviously been avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,86,214,83],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}