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Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance: HVAC, Plumbing & More

When considering your heating, cooling, generator, or plumbing equipment, we recognize that you have made a significant investment to your home and maintaining it is one of the best ways to provide whole-home comfort and peace of mind for you and your family. Much like your car needs regular maintenance in order to run at an optimal level, your systems need to be maintained and fine-tuned in order to achieve maximum energy efficiency and/or performance.

When it comes to maintenance and service, Maryland and Washington DC, area residents have come to rely on United Service Specialists Heating & Air Conditioning. With warranted repairs and our on-time commitment, we have always been dedicated to our customers, their homes as well as their time.

What Does A Preventative Maintenance Service Call Entail?

One of our skilled and trained technicians performs a diagnostic check on your system, and determines your problem. They will also make recommendations as to how to best remedy the problem to ensure that your system performs at the highest level of efficiency.

Plumbing Preventative Maintenance

Preventative maintenance is always a great way to avoid major home repair costs over time. Ensure your home’s plumbing systems stay in top shape year-round with United Service Specialists Heating & Air Conditioning’s plumbing preventative maintenance. Regularly scheduled plumbing preventative maintenance prolongs equipment life, improves plumbing performance, and helps avert costly disasters that may stem from plumbing issues. Our goal is to provide complete preventative maintenance for your systems and to ensure smooth, seamless, and efficient function.

In addition to thoroughly inspecting your home’s plumbing systems for safety and operational concerns, informing the customer of equipment condition, and making recommendations on necessary repairs or replacement if needed, when a trained service technician comes to your home to perform the maintenance check, they will do several things:

HVAC Preventative Maintenance

Regular HVAC preventative maintenance is the best way to ensure trouble-free operation and peak performance. Pre-season maintenance is also important. Regularly scheduled preventative maintenance prolongs equipment life, can reduce the extent or frequency of failures and helps contain utility bills by increasing efficiency. United Service Specialists Heating & Air Conditioning’s goal is to provide complete preventative maintenance for your systems and to ensure smooth, seamless, and efficient function. It is the recommendation of utilities and manufacturers to have regular preventative maintenance

in order to qualify for warranty benefits. Our Preventative Maintenance Program can protect your heating and air conditioning system as well as your generator and includes two tune-ups per year for your HVAC systems and either one or two times per year for your 20 point generator tune up.

In addition to informing the customer of equipment condition, and making recommendations on necessary repairs or replacement if needed, when a trained service technician comes to your home to perform the maintenance check, they will do several things:

Generator Preventative Maintenance

Loss of power always comes at a time that simply cannot be predicted. United Service Specialists Heating & Air Conditioning’s preventative maintenance for generators will improve the state of readiness for your emergency generator and will greatly improve the reliability of your backup system. A generator will do you no good unless it will function to its desired capacity when you need it most and the best way to ensure that this happens is by having periodic maintenance done. In addition to the obvious long-term benefits, having your generator maintained regularly also keeps it working efficiently and optimally, which can save you money in the long-term. Our trained service technician includes the following maintenance checks, when performing your check up:

  • Check refrigerant levels and inspect for leaks
  • Test electronic components and system controls
  • Check coolant heater
  • Check coolant level
  • Check fuel level
  • Check charge-air piping
  • Check/clean air cleaner
  • Check battery charger
  • Drain fuel filter
  • Drain water from fuel tank
  • Check coolant concentration
  • Check drive belt tension
  • Drain exhaust condensate
  • Check starting batteries
  • Change oil and filter
  • Change coolant filter
  • Clean crankcase breather
  • Change air cleaner element
  • Check radiator hoses
  • Change fuel filters
  • Clean cooling system

No matter what kind of generator you have, our skilled technicians can work on it and ensure that it is performing the way that it should

 

Geothermal Frequently Asked Questions:

Geothermal heat pumps are systems that use the natural temperatures of the earth to heat and cool your home or commercial property. These systems are highly efficient and can help you save money on your heating and cooling bills.
A geothermal heat pump transfers heat or cooling energy stored in the earth and transfers it to the home or commercial property from one place to another.
Yes, a hot water generator can be added to most geothermal heat pumps which can save you up to 50% on your water-heating bill in addition to the reduction in heating and cooling costs.

The initial cost of a geothermal system can be higher than a conventional HVAC system. However, the systems typically pay for themselves over time with energy savings. In order to get an accurate comparison of overall costs you need to consider several factors:

  • Return On Investment or ROI – The length of time it takes to recover the difference in costs, factoring in the monthly savings between the two systems. Payback for most geothermal systems runs between 3-5 years, while the systems can last well over 50 years and add substantial equity / value to your property.
  • Federal, state and local tax credits, rebate programs, and incentives can significantly reduce the upfront cost of installing a geothermal system.
  • Take a look at ClimateMaster’s geothermal savings calculator to see how much geothermal can save you on your monthly energy bills

Return On Investment or ROI – The length of time it takes to recover the difference in costs, factoring in the monthly savings between the two systems. Payback for most geothermal systems runs between 3-5 years, while the systems can last well over 50 years and add substantial equity / value to your property.
Federal, state and local tax credits, rebate programs, and incentives can significantly reduce the upfront cost of installing a geothermal system.
Take a look at ClimateMaster’s geothermal savings calculator to see how much geothermal can save you on your monthly energy bills

Horizontal loop installations use trenches about 2-3 feet wide. This area will be bare temporarily, and can be restored with sod or grass seed. For minimal lawn damage, consider a vertical loop system, which requires less space.