How does your Air Conditioning System Work to cool your house?

How does your Air Conditioning System Work to cool your house?

• Christian Brothers Air Conditioning in Austin helps educate our customers which in turn helps them to understand the value of replacing their old inefficient equipment with a new high efficient money saving system.

• So, how does an air conditioning system work without getting too complicated? Any house with a central air conditioning system has a thermostat on the wall. When it is getting hotter in your home, the thermostat senses this heat and signals the air conditioning system to begin to lower the temperature. This now starts a progression of events. By the way, did you know a properly placed thermostat should be attached to the wall right about five feet off the floor and within six feet from the return air grill?

• The thermostat tells a part of you’re A/C system called the air handler to turn on. The air handler then starts to suck air from the house through the return air grill(s) and its associated duct work.

• The air from the house goes through the filter, and hopefully you change it on a monthly basis. The filter removes and traps much of the dust, dirt, lint, and other particles before it can get into your air handler and beyond. The better the filter, the more stuff that gets trapped.

• The air handler moves and forces the warm air through another component of you’re A/C system called the evaporator coil. This coil removes heat and then the air which remains is now cooler and is delivered to the house through your ductwork and out the supply vents in the ceilings or walls of all your rooms.

• When your thermostat senses the temperature drop and reaches the temperature of your liking, it shuts down the system until things heat up again.