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Air Conditioning & Heating Service
Plantation has mature tree cover, which is pleasant to live under and hard on outdoor units. Leaves and seed matter pack the condenser fins, head pressure climbs, and the compressor pays for it quietly over a couple of seasons. Cleaning it properly is not the same as hosing it down.
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Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM, Miami time. We are closed on Sunday.
Plantation sits in central Broward and was built mostly between the sixties and the eighties, on generous lots with a great many trees. Good for the cooling load, bad for the condenser.
Shade over the outdoor unit sounds like a benefit and mostly is, until the same trees drop enough material to pack the coil. A condenser under mature trees can collect a remarkable amount of debris, and a coil at half its effective surface area costs capacity on exactly the days you need it.
Houses of this age usually have attic duct work installed with the house. Flex duct does not last forever: the liner tears, the insulation compresses, and joints that were taped rather than mastic-sealed let go. A system fighting a leaking attic duct system looks undersized when it is not.
Once the liner has torn, cleaning the duct is temporary at best: the surface it is cleaning is the thing that is failing.
Our maintenance visits here always include a proper coil wash and a check of clearances around the unit. Both take a few minutes and both directly affect how hard the system has to work for the rest of the season.
Fins packed with leaf litter make a unit run hot and cut out early, and short cycling explains what that does to a compressor.
Outside. A coil packed with leaf litter costs capacity, and a system that cannot get ahead of the load never removes moisture. Cleaning the condenser properly is the first thing we do here.
Sections can, and often should. We replace the run that has failed rather than the whole system, and we say plainly which sections are still sound.
For the cooling load it is a gift. For the equipment it means debris in the condenser and moisture that lingers, so it changes what maintenance has to cover rather than whether you need it.
