{"id":955,"date":"2016-06-06T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2016-06-03T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:23:18","slug":"reasons-you-never-want-amateurs-to-install-your-air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/reasons-you-never-want-amateurs-to-install-your-air-conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons You Never Want Amateurs to Install Your Air Conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an era when \u201cDo It Yourself\u201d projects are more popular than ever before. It can be fun to tackle some household ventures on your own, but it\u2019s important to know where to draw the line between jobs that an amateur can figure out\u2026 and jobs that <em>must<\/em> have a professional.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One household project that requires professional assistance is the installation of a new central air conditioning system. Not only should you never attempt this on your own, you shouldn\u2019t delegate it to an amateur who makes big promises about how much you can save with a non-professional job.<\/p>\n<h3>Here\u2019s why you need a professional for your AC installation:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Proper sizing: <\/strong>Sizing is the process of determining how powerful an air conditioner to install for a house. To correctly determine the size of the AC requires performing a heat load calculation, and only a professional can do this. An amateur is likely to put in an air conditioner that\u2019s too powerful, which will lead to a short-cycling system that will soon start to waste energy and break down.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Correct refrigerant charge:<\/strong> It\u2019s common for non-professionals to place too much refrigerant into an AC. Any air conditioner has a set charge of refrigerant it runs on, and too little or too much will result in a broken air conditioner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sufficient outdoor clearance:<\/strong> Another common error made during amateur installation is placing the outdoor unit where it doesn\u2019t have sufficient clearance on all four sides. If the outdoor unit is blocked, it will make the air conditioner inefficient and put it at higher risk for damage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed: <\/strong>You don\u2019t want an air conditioner installation to take up days\u2014but that\u2019s a risk you\u2019ll take if you have a non-professional attempting the work. Trust the professionals to have the job completed\u2014and completed right\u2014in only a short time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/air-conditioning\">When you want a great air conditioning installation<\/a>, call our team of trained and experienced HVAC technicians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Red Rock Mechanical LLC\u2026 serving Burlington, VT and the surrounding areas for over 23 years with quality air conditioning and heating.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an era when \u201cDo It Yourself\u201d projects are more popular than ever before. It can be fun to tackle some household ventures on your own, but it\u2019s important to know where to draw the line between jobs that an amateur can figure out\u2026 and jobs that must have a professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[115,89],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}