Home appliances are great investments of yours, need lots of care and protection for using them properly, whether these are being used or unused. After all, these assist us and make our lives comfortable and tension-free. 

Protect your Home Appliances 

 

 

To look after these appliances are higher to make their lives longer and they can perform well. Just like the AC needs some preventative steps to facilitate you always approximately. 

 

 

Why do you need to cover your AC 

 

 

When summer has off and winter is getting ready to come, this time your AC is powered off. Even if AC has a heating function that you can use in winter, but in the fall season it demands some care. So in this matter, you should cover your AC; indoor and outdoor unit to protect them for some reasons. 

 

 

Protection of AC; Indoor and Outdoor Unit 

 

These precautions matter a lot for the especially outdoor unit. Because the indoor unit normally does not experience such effects as leaves, snow, and other seasonal consequences. Although dust and dirt can hurt the indoor also, so to cover it, is compulsory too. Otherwise, the outdoor unit requires more safety due to place in the open air and can face lots of challenges. 

 

 

Dust and Dirt: Everything becomes a victim of dust & dirt whether it is powered off. So to cover your accessories are compulsory to ensure their safety. That is why it is necessary to cover your Ac; indoor and outdoor in the off-season to make them safe and secure from dust and other outside particles. 

 

 

Direct Sunlight: Especially for the outdoor unit, it needs to be covered by saving it from too much sunlight that directly hurts your outdoor. So cover with breathable cover is good for your outdoor life that helps it to work efficiently. Moreover, you can also build a shed in summer for preventing it from direct sun rays. 

 

Block the Coils: As opposite the sunlight, the snow and other outside particles can block the coils that leads to unexpected breakdowns, and need expensive repairing when you will start up your system in the summer.

In winter, especially in northern areas, snow or ice may make a mini glacier in your Air conditioner. Like when snow or water drops can get in your AC, it may be freeze or being melted within it that may damage your coils, if such procedure will happen repeatedly. So you must take care of your outdoor to use it smoothly. 

 

 

Leaves in Fall Season: Similarly, in the fall season, leaves, nuts, seeds, etc can collect into the unit where the moisture collects. So it may cause corrosion or blocks the moisture drainage that leaves the worst consequences for your system. 

 

 

Cover in Flooding and Thunderstorm: If you cover your air conditioner in hard and harsh weather conditions, it must protect you from severe damages and your great investment cannot be wasted or even does not need more money for repairs. So to cover your AC is the best way to protect it. 

 

 

Which way is right to cover AC 

 

 

As got to know that to cover air condition, brings good results, lead to getting information that what is the right way to cover your AC. 

 

• Wrap your AC with a breathable Ac Cover. 
• Don’t wrap with the plastic cover that is not good for AC’s life. 
• Don’t cover your entire outdoor unit; it should be at least 6 inches above the floor. 

 

 

At the End 

 

 

No doubt, it is also true that to cover your AC is still debatable; homeowners are in favor to cover the air conditioner that makes it safe while AC makers have another opinion about this. So as having a view of the reasons to protect the AC, may lead to the need of covering such great investment in off-seasons.