Ductless Mini Split Maintenance (Video)

Mike Cappuccio with Jones Services explains what happens during spring and winter maintenance appointments for ductless systems. Then, he outlines what can happen if you don’t properly maintain your ductless system.

Hi, I’m Mike Cappuccio with Jones Services, and today I’m here to talk to you about ductless mini split maintenance. When do I do it? How often do I do it?

Well, let’s say you’re using your system for heating and cooling. Well, you’d want to get your heating maintenance done in the fall, preferably September, October, probably maybe more October. And your cooling maintenance, you would probably want to get it serviced in March or April, so you can ensure that your system is running properly at that time.

So, what is going to get done? All right, let’s talk about the cooling maintenance in the spring. We’re going to come in, clean the air filters, make sure they’re nice and clean, wash them out, reinstall them, check the fan wheel, make sure everything is aligned properly, make sure it’s balanced properly, make sure it’s working properly. We’re going to inspect the refrigerant lines from the outdoor unit to the indoor unit.

We’re going to check for proper charge on the outdoor unit, clean the condenser coil, and make sure that the system is operating properly. And probably one of the biggest, most important things is we want to ensure that your drain lines are running clear and free and that they’ve been blown out and cleared of any debris because we don’t want water leaking in our home in the summertime.

Heating season, basically, the same thing happens. We’re probably not going to clean the condenser coil in the fall because it’s already been cleaned in the spring. But, we’re going to come in, clean the air filters, do what we need to do, just like we did with the cooling unit, check the refrigerant charge, check all those other things, and change the batteries in the remote control, so you know that the system remote is going to work properly.

Now, as the system gets older and time goes on, there could be needs for more extensive cleaning on the indoor unit, depending on how often you do your maintenance. I’ve seen units where they haven’t been maintained for four, five, six, seven, eight, or even 10 years, and we come in to maintain them, and it’s not as simple as what I just explained. It could involve dismantling the whole unit. It could even require replacing the whole unit at that time.

To keep your unit running efficiently and to maintain cost-effectiveness, just keep the unit clean, and have us out a couple of times a year if you’re using it for heating and cooling, and let’s get these things done that I just spoke about.