AC Maintenance in Rogers, AR
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 Benton County will get in touch.
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It takes about a minute.
Five months of Rogers heat adds up fast
Your air conditioner runs from May through September here, and on the afternoons that hit 88°F it runs long stretches to keep up. That kind of runtime puts real hours on the compressor and the fan motor.
Benton County has also logged 133 hail events and 152 damaging wind events over the past ten years, with hail up to 4 inches recorded. That kind of weather can bend the fins on an outdoor unit or knock the cabinet out of true, and a tune-up is when a contractor checks the coil and the fan for that damage before it causes a breakdown.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 88°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 133 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 152 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.
Arkansas requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The license covers the contractor as a whole, not each job separately, so the same license that lets someone install a furnace also lets them maintain your air conditioner. Arkansas also does not let counties or cities layer on their own HVAC license, so the state's is the one that applies wherever you are in Benton County.
For maintenance, that license is what stands behind the person working on your system. If the visit includes checking or handling refrigerant, the technician also has to hold EPA Section 608 certification, which is a federal requirement in every state and separate from the state license.
Source: Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing
- What does AC maintenance include?
- A technician checks the refrigerant charge, cleans the outdoor coil, and tests the capacitor and contactor that keep the compressor starting cleanly. They also check the blower and change or clean the filter if needed, and take amp draw readings on the motors to see if any are working harder than they should. Outdoors, they will also look the unit over for bent fins or other storm damage, since a check is a good time to catch that too.
- How often does an air conditioner need maintenance?
- Once a year, before the cooling season starts. Homes in Rogers run the AC from May through September, so a check before that stretch begins gives a contractor time to catch a weak capacitor or a low refrigerant charge before the system has to run day after day at 88 degrees.
- Is AC maintenance worth it?
- Yes, because most of what fails on an air conditioner fails slowly and shows up as a symptom before it shows up as a breakdown. A capacitor that's losing strength, a coil caked with debris, a refrigerant charge that's drifted low, all of those get caught in a routine check instead of on the hottest day of summer. Rogers has logged 133 hail events and 152 damaging wind events over the past ten years, so it's worth having someone look over the outdoor unit each year for bent fins or other storm damage.