Being comfortable in your home no matter how hot it is outside should be a
simple matter of adjusting your air conditioning to a desired temperature. This
can only happen however if you have the right system for your home and it is
being properly maintained.
“The system should perform the way you want it to,” advises Jon-George Popowich
of Boonstra One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning.
As simple as that sounds, there is a lot that goes into determining which air
conditioning system should be installed in your home. It begins with a home
visit that includes a “complete engineering analysis”. The process takes from
60 to 90 minutes, allowing time to measure the square footage of your home,
ceiling heights and the amount of surface area that windows take up. These
measurements help in the calculation of heat gain, or the amount of hot air and
sunlight that comes into your home. Even the direction your home faces has
implications in designing a cooling system.
“If you want to dial in Aspen on that hot summer day, we can do that,” the general manager for Boonstra says.
Homeowners can do “little things” like adjust dampers in the floors and ceilings
to help regulate and balance air
temperature or they can use the services of a Boonstra technician. These
professionals can also check air speed, another factor in creating the perfect
home environment. For example in a two-story home it’s advisable to close
dampers in lower level of home to push more cool air upstairs.
According to Popowich, “Installation is crucial to your system performing as
you want it to. If you don’t install it properly it never will achieve that
cool Aspen breeze on that hot summer day.”
Boonstra invests in its installers so they are educated in the most up-to-date
installation techniques to ensure your system works reliably, efficiently and
performs to your comfort expectations.
“We recommend that you do have annual maintenance, no different than if you are
maintaining a car and bringing it in for oil changes,” Boonstra’s sales manager
explains.
A maintenance program would involve a visit from a technician once a season to
make sure the system is “running
efficiently and will be reliable for years to come”.
