Preventative Maintenance: HVAC
For your preventative maintenance on your HVAC systems, you want to change filters quarterly, at least. If you are a pet friendly property, you might wanna do it more often, but leave that up to you, your schedule, your policies and procedures on your property. It's a good practice to replace the filters obviously on all.
Make Readies, anytime I'm in an apartment doing a service request, no matter what. I'm changing an air filter un, unless I was just in there a week ago. But air filters are extremely inexpensive for what they. Keep out of your HVAC system if replacing a four or $5 filter every now and then will save me thousands of dollars later because of clogged coils, cleaning burnt compressors, clogged condensates that leak down into other apartments.
That's worth it to me. So quarterly filter changes. You want to clean your evaporator coils. You want to disinfect your drain lines? Yes, I said disinfect. Disinfect your drain lines. Clean your condensing coils. This will all be wonderful things to keep your HVAC system running the way that it should. You want to inspect your thermostats, replace any batteries.
That might need to be replaced. If you have old mercury thermostats and you're switching 'em out for some regular electronic thermostats, do it during these PMs. And then you wanna do exterior inspections, 'cause you're gonna be out there cleaning your condensing coils. You wanna make sure that your service valves have valve caps.
You wanna make sure that your cover plates have screws. You wanna make sure your fan motors are nice and tight. Look for signs of pest control. Ant hills. If you've been in the industry long enough, you've replaced a contactor because they've been a buildup of ants or just critters of some sort that have gotten in there and made a home.
They love the heat, they love the hum of that electricity. Do those visual inspections clean those ant hills replace. Get ahead of it. Alright, this is the springtime. PMs should be a big thing right now. So for HVAC systems, quarterly filter changes. Clean your coils, inspect your thermostats, and check refrigerant levels if and when you can, just to make sure that you have no leaks, visual inspections, valve caps, screws on your condensing units, just to make sure everything's operating properly.
