AC Maintenance in New Albany, IN
Air conditioners here run from May through September, so April is the time for a tune-up. Tell us about your system, and a licensed contractor who covers Floyd County will get in touch.
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Five months of hard running takes a toll
Your air conditioner works from May through September in New Albany, and on the afternoons that hit 86°F it runs long and hard to keep up. That kind of stretch wears on the parts that keep it running, the ones a tune-up is built to catch early.
Floyd County has also seen its share of rough weather, 41 damaging wind events and 17 hail events over the past ten years, with hailstones as large as 1.75 inches. A storm like that can bend the fins on your outdoor unit or knock it out of alignment without you noticing right away. A maintenance visit is a chance to catch that kind of damage before it turns into a breakdown on the hottest day of the year.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 86°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 17 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 41 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
Book your AC tune-up in April, before homes here start needing cooling in May.
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A tune-up checks the refrigerant charge, cleans the coils, tests the capacitor and tightens the electrical connections.
In Indiana, HVAC licensing for homes is left to the counties and cities.
Floyd County sets its own rule on who can do HVAC work, and whether a license is required here depends on the local office, not the state. Indiana keeps no state record of HVAC contractors, tested or otherwise. Whatever protection exists starts at the county or city line, not above it.
For a maintenance visit on your air conditioner, the credential that applies everywhere, Floyd County included, is EPA Section 608 certification. Any technician who opens the refrigerant side of your system, to check the charge or service the coil, has to hold it. That is a federal requirement, not a local one, and it holds regardless of what Floyd County does or does not license.
Sources: Indiana Department of Workforce Development · State of Indiana
- What does AC maintenance include?
- A contractor checks refrigerant pressure, cleans the condenser coil, and tests the capacitor and contactor in the outdoor unit. Inside, they check the coil and the blower, and replace or clean the filter if it needs it. They also check the thermostat is calling for cooling correctly and look over the electrical connections, since loose ones are a common cause of a system tripping off.
- How often does an air conditioner need maintenance?
- Once a year, ideally in spring before the cooling months start. Homes here run the AC from May through September, so getting it checked before that stretch begins means the coil is clean and the refrigerant charge is right before the unit has to work through 86°F afternoons.
- Is AC maintenance worth it?
- Yes, because most of what causes a system to fail during the cooling months is something a contractor could have caught earlier in the year. A dirty coil makes the compressor work harder, a weak capacitor eventually stops the fan from starting, and low refrigerant means the house never gets as cool as the thermostat says it should. Catching those early, before May through September, keeps the system running the way it was built to.