Air conditioner is basically a cooling device that helps reducing the level of humidity in a particular room. These are an indispensable part of any home as these beautifully counteract the effect of biting heat. For the effective working of the appliance, each and every air conditioning unit is provided with the filters.

Finding the filters dirty and discolored? Do you want to replace it? Just wait. You can do something else. You can timely clean the filters before it end up in huge electricity bills or even destroying the unit as such. Cleaning them regularly can overcome this problem moreover this will enhance the life of the filters and unit in turn.

Always remember that one should turn off the appliance before making any adjustments, repair or even replacements. So, here also, the first step would be turning off the air conditioner. Now, the next step is to determine the ventilation duct where the filters are placed. Generally, these are located on the walls of the unit, but units with filters locate on the ceiling are also available.

Just take out the hatch by opening of two screws on two latches on the top of the hatch where air filter is placed. Carefully pull out the filter from the duct, if it is placed on the ceiling. Filters placed on walls need not to be taken out.

Make use of a vacuum cleaner. Just plug in the hose and run the appliance on the air filter. You will be surprised how much dust one air filter can collect. After vacuuming the entire surface you should see a big difference in the appearance of your air filter. Instead of a dusty gray it should be a shade of blue and somewhat translucent.

Ensuring, you have properly vacuum the device, place in the filter. At last, tighten the hatches by rotating the latches clockwise.

If you neglect to regularly maintain your air conditioning filters, you probably realize at some point, your air conditioners takes a longer time to cool and seem to consume more power when you check the electricity bills.

In case the cleaning of the filters is not taken care of, it will have an adverse effect on the compressor of the unit and we may have to change the compressor that will tell on our budget.

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