To Repair or Replace?
It is 6 p.m. on a Friday night and it is a sweltering 85 degrees inside your house. Your air conditioning is not working and the service technician states that the fan motor is bad and it will cost X- amount to fix. Your unit is X-years old. Repair or replace.... What do you do?
When you're frustrated with an equipment break-down, it can be tempting to find the least expensive "quick fix" to get on with your lif in relative comfort. That "quick fix" may be the least expensive now, but it may not give you the most value in the long run. Paying for repairs to an old or inefficient system often simply prolongs the inevitable. It's like putting a band-aid on a serious injury. An older system that breaks down once is likely to break down again and again. Tha means more emergency service calls or, worse yet, the risk of damage to your home or to other components of your heating and cooling system.
There's an ongoing cost factor to consider. Restoring your old system will only bring it back to its current level of energy efficiency. After you've recovered from the repair bills and the frustration of system breakdowns, you still won't save on your energy bills. A six-year-old air conditioner is considered grossly inefficient by today's energy efficiency standards, as are most units built before 1980. You could save up to 60% on your energy bills with new high-efficiency equipment. That's why installing a new system can actually pay for itself in energy savings within a relatively short time.
At Preferred Air, our priority is to provide you with as much information that will help you make the best possible decision for your family. We don't want to string you along with repairs only to replace the unit within a short period of time. With that information in hand, homeowners always make the right choice. No matter what you decide, we are always available to serve you.
