525. Before The Hot Weather, do this for your Air Conditioner
28 Jan 2026 · 5 min
Derek Cole walks through what to do before summer heat hits. Get a professional tune-up that cleans your outdoor coil and covers breakdowns for six months. Clear weeds around the unit, swap air filters every three months, and have a tech inspect your ducts.
Questions this episode answers
2023-06-01
84-point check
A six-month breakdown-free guarantee; tune-up cost credited toward repairs if system breaks that summer.
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You might be seeing this after it happens, but today we're talking about things you can do before the hot weather hits. Hopefully, hopefully you called it before the hot weather's here. But if not, that's okay. We can go back, we can do it. But number one, first, first of all, summer is quickly approaching as we shoot this now. We're days away from summer happening. Summer's quickly coming, temperatures about the soar about to rise. Number one, schedule a maintenance checkup. Schedule maintenance checkup. Now here we offer a six month breakdown free guarantee with our summer cool spectacular. But whatever you do, have it clean, checked and ready for the summer. That's number one. Our summer cool spectacular is the 84 point check and cleaning of your outdoor coal as well. So we're going to give you a six month breakdown free guarantee that the checklist is so good, I'm going to give you a breakdown free guarantee. And the guarantee is if your system does break this summer, we're going to take what you paid for that tune up. We're going to put it towards their pair. So we're putting our money where our mouth is. Get your system checked and clean. Make sure it's good to go before or after, depending on when you're watching this. The summer hits before the summer hits. It's never really a bad time to do it. So the summer's already here and you haven't done it. It's always good to go and let's get it done. We're in the middle of summer, maybe get it done. We're at the end of summer. Get it done where? Beginning of winter. Get it either way, get it done. Done. Part of that maintenance is cleaning the condition unit, the large metal box outside, outside your home is the condensing unit. Dust, debris, other materials kind of accumulate on that condensing unit. That coil that's around that condenser, all your lungs so it's causing it to function less efficiently than what it could. That's part of our summer cool. That's where we do it, is cleaning the outdoor coal. Because it's been a long year, things happen, things get on it. Also trees, bushes, any plants growing around needs to be cleared out. It needs to have the air to breathe for it to work properly. Number three, change your air filters. Change your air filters. If this is the first thing you've heard or seen from us whatsoever, you have not heard me say this. If this is not the first thing I've said it probably every time. Check and change your filter every month. Once a month. Check or change your filter. At least change your filter every three months. But I will check it and change it every month. Every single month. Inspect your ducts. Part of that summer Cool. I spoke about part of our cover club agreement, part of our regular routine services. We check your duct system. Make sure nothing has a gaping hole, nothing is falling down, nothing is getting in your system. It could be a challenge, but before it gets hot, do those couple things. But it's always a good time to do all those things, even if you see this after it gets hot. But whatever you do, get a professional. A professional. Not just a anyone. A professional to come to your home clean, inspect your unit. Make sure you're good to go before the summer heat says them.
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