FAQs

Air Conditioning (or A/C as it is more commonly known) is relied upon heavily in the warmer months to keep your home feeling cool and comfortable. There are problems that can affect your A/C unit and prevent it from running efficiently, costing you more money. These include:

Uneven Cooling

Airflow is very important to ensure air conditioning is working effectively and many factors affect the balancing on a room-to-room basis.

Damper registers

In the air conditioning mode your system can be “dampered” greatly to push more air to needed areas of your home.  As you damper down registers, this builds up pressure to even out the distribution evenly. Making sure you have the right registers is very important. Registers that force the air up will give you better room circulation and will do a better job in providing even temperature. Each register from there can be opened or closed more to balance the rest of the room. Up to 10% of registers in the cooling mode can be shut off completely.

Let Rentmeister evaluate your system and make sure that it’s working effectively for you.

Potential Problems

Undersized Air Conditioner:
People feel that they are not getting maximum A/C because the air conditioner is undersized. This is not always the problem and we find that it is usually because the air conditioner needs maintenance. A dirty filter, or wrong filter, blower wheel or evaporator coil being the main areas for maintenance. When these parts of the system are dirty, it affects the airflow, lowers the blower capacity and circulation, also increasing the power necessary to operate your A/C unit.

Register Differences:
Wood registers are too restrictive for running a good heating and air conditioning system. They do look nice in your home but are not functional.

There is a difference in metal registers. Make sure that fins are turned up and not at a 45° angle. This forces your air toward the ceiling and gives you better indoor air quality.

Register Deflectors:
Many home improvement stores sell register deflectors for registers.  Most of the time these seem to be a hindrance rather than a help to your heating and air conditioning system.

Sizing Air Conditioners:
Air conditioners in the past have usually been oversized rather than undersized. Each air conditioner has different components and each unit is different depending on which coil you use.  It even makes a difference with the furnace you install to the capacity that your air conditioner will put out.