The A/C Guy of Tampa Bay Inc. Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Clearwater’

The Single BEST Reason to Get Professional AC Installation

Monday, September 2nd, 2024

We’ll admit, there are many different reasons why customers should choose our team for professional AC installation. We’re friendly, we’re energetic, we’re licensed, and we bring an unmatched level of experience to this industry in Clearwater, FL. But there are a lot of HVAC contractors in the area, and it might take more than that to pull you away from your current favorite.

Many of our returning customers consider the AC Guy of Tampa Bay Inc. the “guy” they call for everything air conditioning. Why is this the case?

One simple reason that we’ll get into below. We promise, once you figure out why everyone is choosing us over their other prospective HVAC technicians, you’ll be choosing us too for air conditioning repair in Clearwater.

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3 Primary Reasons You Need AC Repair

Monday, May 15th, 2023

Your air conditioner goes up against a lot of stress year after year. It’s wear and tear—slow degradation that you can’t stop or halt. As that happens, repairs pop up, and it’s not always easy to identify when your AC does need to be fixed. That’s what we want to help you with right now.

Before you call for AC repair in Clearwater FL, let’s talk about the main signals from your AC that it’ll send you before it breaks down. We’ll run through those first.

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AC Short Cycling? It Could Be Frozen Solid

Monday, February 20th, 2023

Short cycling is an immediate sign that something is wrong with your air conditioner. It doesn’t matter what the cause is: it’s bad news. But when your AC freezes up, that comes with different problems than a simple power-related issue.

Before you get air conditioning repair in Clearwater, let’s walk you through how you can tell if your AC is frozen or not. If all goes well, the solution to your problem could be right here.

While it’s important to get your AC checked out after it’s frozen up like that, these fixes should give you peace of mind in the meantime.

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Now Is a Good Time to Assess Your AC’s Performance This Year

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Two technicians working on an air conditioner outside the home.

Your air conditioner works overtime to keep you cool when you need it and beat the heat of Tampa during the blazing summer months. Right now it’s cool enough that it has a bit of downtime. That gives you the perfect opportunity to see how it’s doing before you need to heavily rely on it next season.

It’s time to do a wellness check on your AC to determine whether you need AC repair in Clearwater, FL, or if you’re A-okay until next season. Let’s find out.

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Has This Summer Been Too Much for Your AC?

Monday, September 5th, 2022

Each summer, your AC goes on a long endurance run as it battles to remove heat from your home. Did it just run its last course and maybe needs to quit?

Because, let’s face it, this was a rough summer to be a cooling system in Florida. Too much heat, too much humidity. A newer AC installation in Clearwater, FL is probably in decent shape and ready for more heat next year (provided it has its annual maintenance appointment in spring). An aging AC may be looking at a wobbly future unless repaired—or even replaced. How can you tell if this summer was too much for your cooling system?

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Dealing With Allergy Season in Your Home

Monday, February 21st, 2022

What does allergy season mean? You’ve probably experienced what it feels like—sneezing, congestion, eye and nose irritation. But why does it happen when it does? The reason is that as the weather begins warming up in spring, it increases the bloom of several plants that send pollen into the air, most notably ragweed. Allergy season can be extremely serious in Florida, and it often strikes early because our winter season is short.

What are the best ways to deal with allergy season in your home? Believe it or not, your local HVAC pros here at the A/C Guy of Tampa Bay have ways to ease your allergy season burdens. We’ll get into more details below.

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Troubleshooting a Heater That Won’t Turn On

Monday, February 7th, 2022

We’re getting more cold weather this season than usual for Florida, so we hope you remembered to have annual heater service in Clearwater, FL through our maintenance plan. (If you haven’t, it’s not too late to sign up!) Maintenance can stop the majority of heater malfunctions, but not all of them. You may run into that most dreaded of all heating problems: a heater that won’t turn on.

When this happens, you don’t need to panic. If your furnace or heat pump needs professional repairs, all you have to do is call The A/C Guy of Tampa Bay and we’ll see the problem is fixed. Before you call us, however, you can go through several troubleshooting steps. The heating system may not have as big a problem as it at first seems, and going through these checks may get the system working again.

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A Bad Thermostat vs. Your AC: What Can Go Wrong

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

When Thermostats Go Bad!

Sounds a touch dramatic, but we want to make a point about how important your home’s thermostat is for the overall operation of your HVAC system. The thermostat affects comfort, energy consumption, and the health of the AC and heater. Thermostat problems often look like other HVAC troubles, and it takes a skilled professional to make an accurate diagnosis of the malfunction and fix it.

We’ve listed below ways a thermostat can malfunction and how it affects your house and AC (as well as the general HVAC system).

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Should I Get a Bigger Air Conditioner for My Home?

Monday, August 9th, 2021

Earlier this year, we wrote a post about the cooling limits of an air conditioning system in a home. This is called the temperature differential of an AC, which is how much the air conditioner can lower the indoor temperature compared to the outside. The temperature differential for residential ACs is 20°F.

Of course, this doesn’t mean every air conditioner can work the same for every house. A small air conditioner may be able to lower the temperature by 20°F, but for only a limited area. This is the air conditioner’s capacity, which is separate from the temperature differential. The capacity of an air conditioner is how many BTUs of heat it can remove from a house in an hour. For example, a small window AC can remove about 5,000 BTUs/hour from a space, but this is only enough to cool down a single room. Larger central ACs can remove 12,000 to 60,000 BTUs/hour.

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Did You Get the Best Heating Efficiency This Winter?

Monday, February 22nd, 2021

The end of this winter season is extremely harsh for some parts of the country. Here in Tampa Bay, it’s standard late-winter-as-usual, which means the spring warmth is already arriving and many of us can expect to start using our air conditioning systems. As the season of heating comes to a close, it’s a good time to assess how efficiently your heating system performed.

It may seem hard to know that, especially when heating systems don’t do as much work during our mild winters compared to more northern states. But there are ways you can analyze your heating system’s efficiency and judge whether you need heating service in Clearwater, FL to improve it.

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