One of the niceties of heating and cooling your Atlanta home with a geothermal system is the minimal maintenance it requires. The system’s relative simplicity explains that. But minimal maintenance shouldn’t be taken to mean no maintenance. Keeping your system’s operation smooth and efficient necessitates periodically checking the heat pump’s fluid levels and temperatures as well as changing filters in both the air handling unit and the geothermal ground-loop system. Aside from that, once-a-year maintenance service should be provided by the registered, qualified geothermal energy engineers at EcoMech. These dual efforts – yours and ours – can assure that your compressors and circulation pumps hang in there for a good 35 to 50 years, the reckoned life of your geothermal system.
By all means, consult your owner's manual for correct maintenance procedures. Suffice it to tell you here that inspecting fluid levels as a rule involves checking on the amount of refrigerant necessary to run the geothermal heat pump.
There are,to be precise, two filters in the air handling unit that must be changed every so often: one in the discharge ducting, the other in the air return system. Both filters capture airborne particles collected from all over your home; particles on the order of dust, fluff, dust mites, insects, and smoke residue. Typically, HEPA filters are employed, but there are other types of decent filters that can be helpful to those suffering from allergies.
Disposable geothermal system air filters are the most prevalent. Switch them out them every three months. Permanent filters, which you can refresh with a vacuum-cleaner hose, should be taken out of the housing and cleaned every one to three months. Whether cleaning or replacing, it’s vital that you put on rubber gloves, eye protection, and a face mask that covers your mouth and nose. It’s even more vital, though, that you cut the system off from all power sources beforehand!
For more details on maintaining your geothermal heating and cooling system, review your O&M Manual or
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