By Team JSR

Here are 9 tips you can start using today to ready your Heatpump or A/C when hot, humid weather arrives.

1. Clean Inside and Outside

Not just saving money on operating costs, it’s highly recommended for safety. Over winter, your heat pump collects dust and grime, and this impacts the efficiency when you switch to the pump’s aircon feature. Test all units and clean them thoroughly, including taking the filters out to clean and replacing them as required. Have your air conditioner or heat pump serviced by a professional at least every year.

Heatpump Or A/C Cleaning

2. Don’t use A/C or Heatpump too early 

While it may be tempting to turn the air conditioning ON at the first sign of a hot day, doing this too early in the summer can result in wasted energy and higher bills. Using a fan lets you stay cool without needing to lower the temperature of the entire house. This will save you money and electricity.

Cool OFF With Fan

3. Keep your AC at the desired temperature

Want to cool your home to 24°C?

Lowering temperature won’t cool your home quickly. Your AC cools your home at the same rate whether you set it at 24 °C or 20 °C. Set your AC to the desired temperature to prevent it from cooling your home more than necessary, so you don’t have to pay extra on your bill.

Cooling with Heatpump Remote Control

4. Close blinds and curtains to block excess heat

Sunlight streaming through closed windows can heat your home. If you’re out during the day when leaving in the morning, try closing as many curtains and blinds as you can to block out excess heat from the sun. Closing Blinds and curtains will reduce how much energy will be required to cool your home when you return home.

Blocking Excessive Heat

5. Reduce the use of appliances that generate heat

If you’ve got your air conditioner to cool the house, try not to use appliances that let off heat into your home, like a dryer and the oven. On hot days, these appliances may make your air conditioner work harder to cool your home.

Cooling your home works the same way as heating it, but in reverse – you want to keep the cool air in your home! Close windows, doors, and pull-down blinds or close curtains if you have the sun streaming in.

Reduce uses of all appliances during summer

6. Close rooms that don’t need cooling

When you’re home alone, close off the excess space that doesn’t need cooling when using your air conditioning.

Close OFF excess space

7. Turn off TVs and Electronic Devices

Think about your appliances too. When cooking large meals, close off the kitchen from the area you’re cooling off. When you are not watching your TV Or working on your computer, don’t leave them on as these electric devices can generate a lot of heat.

Tv Appliance

8. Close bathroom doors when showering

When showering, make sure the bathroom door is closed and leave the windows open during and afterwards to cool the bathroom down. If you don’t do this, your air conditioner will have a hard time dealing with a hot and humid bathroom environment.

Bathroom Door

9. Insulate Floors and Roofs If you haven’t

Remember, proper insulation not only warms your home during winter but also keeps it cooler during the summer. Consider Insulating the floors and the roof of your home.

Insulate-floors-and-roofs

Need help maintaining your Heatpump and A/C?

JSR and its team are trusted air conditioning specialists in Waikato, providing consultation, maintenance, and installation for Heatpump and A/C systems. Get in touch with JSR, and we’ll book you an appointment with an A/C technician.