Air Conditioning Articles

The experts at West Mechanical wants to help increase your awareness of some of these environmental factors that affect your air conditioner.

At West Mechanical, our professionals want to help with all your HVAC needs. Keeping your air conditioner operating at peak efficiency helps control the energy expenses in your Washington home, maintain your IAQ, & reduce your carbon footprint.

At West Mechanical, we understand that depending on your air conditioner to run efficiently is crucial to helping you get the good night’s sleep you deserve.

Aside from the professionals, like ours at West Mechanical, who really thinks about air conditioners and their components? Air conditioners keep your Friday Harbor, WA, home or business cool and comfy when the outside temperatures are high, and that’s all you really need to know, right?

When an air conditioner (AC) turns on and off in rather quick successions, without running for longer periods, this is called short cycling. It’s fairly common, but when this happens it means there’s something wrong with your air conditioner. So what should you do?

When you are in the middle of summer, it can be difficult to keep heat out of your Bellingham home even if you have your central air conditioning system going full blast. Our team at West Mechanical wants to help you prevent heat from building up inside your home as much as possible so that…

No doubt you’ve heard of Freon®, the refrigerant gas used in your air conditioner. But maybe you haven’t heard of or made the connection with its generic name––R-22 (refrigerant 22), or HCFC-22 (hydrochlorofluorocarbon 22). And maybe you also haven’t heard that by the year 2020, it’s being phased out of usage here in the United…

A major part of your health relies on getting a good night’s sleep. That’s why it’s not just important to run your air conditioner during the hot summer days. You also need to keep your home comfortably cool at night as well.