Knowing when to exchange your home’s heating and cooling system may be a challenging endeavor. it's a difficult decision to prevent repairing an older, less-efficient central AC unit and invest during a new central air-con system. If you're facing an air-con replacement, this text will guide you through selecting an air-con contractor to tips that will assist you to prepare your home before the AC replacement project begins.
Know the Terms
The top air conditioning brands have different ratings on performance, costs, and other factors. As you discuss units together with your contractor, remember of the subsequent terms:
Heating Season Performance Factor or HSPF: This rating determines the efficiency of an apparatus. Heat pumps with a rating of a minimum of 8.2 are awarded the Energy Star label by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency or AFUE: the share of the energy used that's converted into usable heat. the upper the share, the more energy-efficient.
Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio or SEER: This rating notes the efficiency of the cooling system. the upper the SEER, the more efficient the system. The base standard SEER is 13 for forced air systems. most recent forced air systems have a SEER that reaches from 13 to 21.
Energy Efficiency Ratio or EER: This rating bases its energy efficiency rating on how the unit would react to an outdoor temperature of 95 degrees, an indoor temperature of 80 degrees and humidity of fifty percent.
