Robert Darrow, @properties

Your home is one of your greatest investments. Properly maintaining your home is paramount to preserving its maximum value. Properly maintaining your home will enhance its value and make it cheaper to run while you’re living in it. Also, lower operating costs also can make you home more saleable. After all, given the choice of two identical homes on the market, one with $200 per month utilities and one with $400 utilities, which as a buyer, would you choose?

Each Wellington Park townhome has two separately controlled and zoned HVAC systems. Keeping them well maintained and having properly adjusted settings will save you money and hassle down the road.

Before summer gets fully underway, there are a few tasks to undertake to prepare your home for the summer cooling season. Taking these steps should help:

• Save energy usage and costs.

• Make your home more comfortable and  “livable” during the summer months.

• Cause the systems in your home work less hard and to last longer, thereby saving you maintenance and replacement costs.

While there are many things that can be done, there are three important ones to be done at a minimum.

Filters

Replace your furnace filters every month. Use simple, inexpensive blue fiberglass filters – not the fancy (and expensive) high efficiency filters; they can actually restrict airflow in your furnace.

Humidifiers

Each furnace has its own built in Aprilaire whole-house humidifier. These are for winter use only and should be turned off in the cooling season.  Turn off the water supply to the humidifier.

Move the flapper-valve on the air-supply pipe to the summer position (cross-wise to the pipe).

Turn off the Aprilaire via the control panel which is next to your furnace thermostat.

Condensers

Have your roof top HVAC condenser units inspected, serviced and recharged by an HVAC professional.

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