In most houses and apartments today you will find a type of air conditioning unit such as portable units or central aerial units. To work effectively and save yourself money on your electricity bill, you must make sure that you maintain them correctly; But there is always the chance that there needs to work on them. You can save costs on these repairs if you have regular maintenance performed on your air conditioning units.

When you have to have a repair technician come to your home to work on your air conditioning unit there are two main areas that they will usually have to work on. These two units are the evaporator and condenser units. If it is a split air conditioning unit the condenser will usually be located outside of the home.

Before calling a repair technician for routine maintenance or summer repairs, look for specialties that technicians offer during the fall and spring. The maintenance of the routine service may include verification of cooling fluid levels, adjust all belts, cleaning air filters, leak checking, etc.

When you have these service maintenance repairs performed, observe how the technician does so that you can save money by doing some of the things yourself. You can change the filter and you can read the manual to see if this gives instructions on how you can check leaks in case you have problems during the year. One thing you still need to remind you before playing with air conditioning and make sure the power source is completely off.