We’ve all been there: The first summer heat wave comes to town and your air conditioner stops cooling, leaving you stranded in the heat. Air conditioners work hard year after year, but they do require a little upkeep and maintenance to run their best. If your air conditioner’s not cooling properly, there are a number of potential reasons. Some are simple, while others may require a service call from a certified HVAC technician. Here, we’ve outlined 7 potential reasons for your conditioner not cooling—and how to remedy them.
To avoid your air conditioning going out as soon as a heat wave arrives, keep tabs on your system to ensure it’s running optimally before summer approaches. Here are some signs that may indicate that your air conditioning unit is struggling, so you can catch the problem before the unit goes out:
Whether you use a smart thermostat or a basic thermostat, your air conditioner’s cooling issues could solely be a result of an improperly set thermostat. Adjust your thermostat to run the AC at your desired temperature. Switch the fan setting to «On» to check that the fan is working. When in doubt, reference your thermostat’s owner’s manual to ensure you’re using it properly.
If you find that your thermostat is set properly but not communicating with your HVAC unit, the thermostat itself could be broken. This is more probable if you’re dealing with an older thermostat.
Luckily, replacing thermostats is a simple process that most homeowners can tackle themselves. While you’re at it, consider installing a smart thermostat for more control over your home’s heating and cooling.
Whenever replacing electrical components, always turn off the breaker associated with the electrical component and double-check using an
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Today’s boozy vase shares some elements with last week’s although lacks its fullness, containing less than an armful but more than a small posy, although with more time at my disposal it could have become more fulsome than it is. Having achieved my personal challenge of creating a vase with such a large number of blooms, I feel more confident of repeating the exercise and the garden is certainly proving the material to do so.
As of last summer, the island nation of New Zealand was home to 6.3 million head of dairy cattle, up 82 percent over the last two decades. The country also holds 3.8 million beef cattle, 800,000 deer and a whopping 26.8 million head of sheep. That’s a lot of livestock for a country of about five million people.
The garden as a whole has looked pretty hot in recent weeks, with June’s abundance filling it with glorious colour and lush foliage; the gardener, however, sees it very differently, and will quickly provide a list of its defects, things which a casual visitor might overlook. As simple as the overblown geranium above (probably G ‘Ann Folkard’), perhaps, draping itself over several smaller choice plants in front of it, or a more complex problem like the lack of support given to Rosa ‘Strawberry Hill’ (gearing up for a repeat flush) by its current support, below. Certainly, as I see it, everything is NOT coming up roses, or maybe it is but just not in the right place.
If you've already encountered a few or a group of spotted lanternflies in your yard, you may need to take extra steps to protect your yard since this invasive pest can damage the ecosystem around them.
For the first time in decades I heard a cuckoo just the other day, its pealing “Wuck-Koo” ringing out so loudly nearby that I felt a quick, sharp jolt of joy at being so closely in its presence. Once a common sound, the distinctive call of this fleeting seasonal migrant from tropical Africa is traditionally believed to signal the arrival of spring. But as is true of so many other once-common species of birds, its numbers, which are down by an estimated 27 per cent since the early 1970s, have been in slow but steady decline for decades.