Do you have an AC guy check your units twice a year?

[Marian Smith]

Do you have an AC guy service your unit regularly? How often and what does he do? Does he catch/prevent repairs before they happen?

[JD Martin]

Definitely at least once per year, and preferably twice. If you are only going to do once, I would do it in the spring just before AC season. Most of our tenants run AC harder than heat, and it's harder for a dirty system to make cold air in high heat than it is to make warm air in cold weather - gas will just incinerate everything, and heat pumps have auxiliary coils. Most calls we get come from low or no AC. Yes, he catches problems early, and most problems are dirty units from not changing filters often enough.