Tropical storms, thunderstorms, and hurricanes may cause several damages to your lake lake house and may even harm your HVAC unit; Damage to your HVAC method can cause energy wastage, inconvenient breakdowns and may even force you to upgrade your HVAC machine prematurely in worst-case scenarios.
To protect your HVAC method from stormy weather, you need to put in arena the most effective safety precautions, cover your outdoor machine before storms and install hail guards. Impacts from hail may result in significant damages to your refrigerant coil and fins of your HVAC’s outdoor unit. Since hail guards are made of thick metal mesh, they can stay in position all year round and still allow efficient cooling and heating. They are designed with hinges to allow self-explanatory arenament and removal to maintain your unit. Trim the branches of nearby trees so they cannot fall, shed leaves or pine needles on your outdoor unit. That way, you will not have extra cleaning to do or to worry about costly damages. You may also want to shut off your HVAC method using your temperature control and then split off power at your circuit breaker box. This will lower the probabilities of power surges resulting from nearby lightning strikes, faulty transformers, or restored power after an outage. Invest in a surge protector in your circuit breaker box for your HVAC system. This will further protect your machine from strong surges attributed to power outages caused by storms. Protect your wires from dangerous shorts. Make sure any HVAC wires between your lake lake house and your outdoor machine are covered and secured.