How To Take Care Of Your AC During Dubai’s Hottest Months

Lying directly in the Arabian Desert, Dubai is among the hottest places in the world with an average temperature of 20 to 36 degrees Celsius all year long. Its climate usually consists of pleasantly warm winters, but scorchingly hot summers, wherein the temperature can reach as high as 49 degrees Celsius, further aggravated by the winds from the Persian Gulf which brings extreme humidity all throughout the municipality. To survive the heat of the latter season, which is usually from May to September of every year, people in Dubai tend to depend a lot on air conditioning (AC) units to cool their spaces down.

If you are from Dubai or from areas that are equally hot and humid, read along and learn how you can take care of your AC unit for you to survive the scorching heat along with your cooling system:

 

 

• Prepare your AC unit before the summer season.

 

Before the summer season, your AC unit may not have been used often, collecting dirt and debris as it sits idly for months. With this, experts emphasize the necessity of having AC units tuned up before the summer season in order to prepare it for exhaustive usage. This allows AC cleaners and experts to clean air ducts and filters in order to get the unit to run at its full capacity, allowing you to enjoy cool and clean indoor air amidst the hot season. Otherwise, you may end up suffering from heat when your AC unit breaks down in the middle of summer.

 

 

• Check your unit’s air filters monthly.

 

AC units operate by moving air through your indoor spaces, sending cool air in living areas and collecting old air to return to the system. Before the air is returned to the handler, it goes through the air filter, a component which traps allergens and pollutants. As these allergens and pollutants build up over time, they can clog the filter and reduce airflow, causing the entire system to function poorly. To avoid this, you must check your air filter at least once a month during summer seasons in order to ensure that your AC unit will be able to perform at its full potential.

 

 

• Make sure to shade your unit’s condenser.

 

A condenser is the outdoor component of an AC unit that includes the compressors, refrigerant lines, fan, and condenser coils. This component functions to release heat outside by raising the temperature of the refrigerant, allowing heat transfer from indoors to outdoors to be more efficient, while also allowing air to flow freely through the condenser coils while the fan cools it.

When this outdoor component is exposed to extreme outdoor heat, it becomes more difficult for the system to operate as air may take too long to cool. With this, it becomes necessary to shade your condensers in order to avoid exposing them to extreme weather conditions.

If you are looking to have your AC unit serviced to prepare for Dubai’s hottest months, reach out to Adam’s Care, a certified AC maintenance company in Dubai.