Owning a pet is amazing, but it also requires high responsibility. It is one of your most important jobs to provide your pet with a safe and convenient home. And this is when it comes to giving a little more attention to your HVAC system. Here are some tips which you can follow to make sure the convenience of your home both for you and your pet.
Clean is always better
Keeping your pet always clean will eliminate a lot of dangers and unwanted consequences. Regularly bathing and brushing your pet is one of the main ways to keep the good air quality in your house. It would also be great to keep your pet hair at minimum to avoid any kind of allergies.
Exposed Wires
Even though most of the time puppies and kittens are the ones who always love to chew and try to find anything “chewable” to use as a toy, you should also be conscious when it comes to older pets. So, to avoid any injury, danger or damage to your pets make sure you always enclose the wires in conduits.
Air Filters
Having a pet in your house means you will have to change your HVAC system’s air filters more often than the one’s without a pet. Having pet hair go in to your HVAC system with the air, will cause the filters to get clogged which in its turn will make your air conditioning system to run inefficiently, causing you dirty air and higher energy bills. So, make sure you check and change your air filters regularly to avoid this kind of issues with your heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
Outside Condenser Units
Your pets can also be a little threat to the outside HVAC unit, especially if they have a free reign of the yard. It is not a secret that pets, especially dogs like to claw at hard surfaces. Therefore, they might target your condenser and damage both themselves and the unit. Dogs also like to mark their territory by urinating. So, if they choose the condenser, it will result the fins to erode over time, as well as costly refrigerant leaks. To avoid this, you can simply put up a fence or any type of barrier around your condenser unit.
In any case, Las Vegas Rooter professionals can perform maintenance at any point to make sure you have properly set HVAC system both for you and your pet. Call us at 702-247-1419 right now for more tips on how to ensure the convenience of your home.