How often do you get your ACs cleaned?

[CANSIAM]

Once a year just prior to the April/May heat onslaught........

[ross163103]

I clean the dust filters monthly and have a contractor do a deep clean-complete disassembly, every 3-4 months. Pretty amazing the amount of dirt/sludge that gets on the evaporator and fan, especially the fan. The one time I tried to stretch the interval out to 6 months the drain got clogged from all the debris, started leaking on the floor. The unit runs approx 12 hrs a day. The thing to think about is not so much the dry dust but the mold that's forming on the evaporator and fan.

[1FinickyOne]

Cleaned? First we check its BMI to see if it deserves to be cleaned in the first place - Mama don't wan no diabetic legged a/c coming round' here!

 

ok - once a year and it is cleaned by my maid's nephew who seems like a conscientious and capable young man - - if he kills me, she would lose a customer... and I roll the dice from there... 

[hotchilli]

On 9/20/2024 at 11:13 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Mine is 6 months old, so kinda due a clean but I'm slightly nervous about getting it cleaned. A well known company put gas in unnecessarily and on a later clean managed to cause a fault, so they are out for sure, can others be trusted?

In Pattaya

Do it yourself...  no need for a technician to clean out the dust

[novacova]

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

The outside compressor  gets pretty dirty too if you look closely, do you clean that?

Spray them with a low pressure hose when cleaning the walkways. 

[Dazinoz]

On 9/20/2024 at 11:52 AM, BKKKevin said:

Have them all done annually... Complete spray clean and gas topup.

If done properly you should never need a gas up. And if you do you should have leak located and repaired.

 

I had AC in my bedroom for 19 years back in Oz and NEVER needed a gas up. I changed it for an inverter type and the old one  went into shed and worked ok, although rarely, without a top up.

[scubascuba3]

35 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Do it yourself...  no need for a technician to clean out the dust

You clean the outside compressor?

[DD86]

6 hours ago, novacova said:

Haven’t cleaned this for at least three years…

using a pre filter stays clean.

It's the fan that gets cloacked

[Dazinoz]

1 hour ago, DD86 said:

It's the fan that gets cloacked

Which fan? There are 2, a barrel fan in the indoor unit and a standard bladed fan in the outdoor unit. The outside fins (condenser) can get very dirty especially here in Chiang Mai and needs cleaning yearly. 

 

See my next post.

Edited 2 hours ago by Dazinoz

[Dazinoz]

The outdoor unit often gets neglected.

 

This video shows how dirty the outdoor unit fins get here in Chiang Mai. It was professionally cleaned one year prior.