Home » Air Conditioning in Denton, TX » BCI Mechanical, Inc. provides quality air conditioner coil cleaning for Denton, Dallas, and the surrounding Texas communities. Cleaning your air conditioner coils can make a significant improvement in system output and efficiency. Your air conditioner coils are a vital component of the system, performing heat exchange to provide cool air for your home or business. During normal system use, debris builds up on the system’s coils, reducing their ability to facilitate heat exchange. With less coil area available to perform heat exchange, your air conditioning system must work harder to meet demands, placing stress on the coils as well as other system components. When the air conditioner coils are not clean, your system cannot perform as effectively or as efficiently. Air conditioner coil cleaning removes the harmful buildup from your coils, allowing the system to meet demands and operate more efficiently. BCI Mechanical provides air conditioning coil cleaning services for residential and commercial air conditioning systems.

The process is performed by our skilled technicians, which includes these steps: If your air conditioner isn’t performing as expected, dirty coils may be to blame. Restore system output and efficiency through air conditioner coil cleaning from BCI Mechanical; contact us today to schedule service. For 30 years, BCI Mechanical, Inc. has served Denton, Dallas, and the surrounding Texas communities with a commitment to service and value. For all of your air conditioning, heating, air quality, plumbing, and propane needs, the BCI Mechanical, Inc. team has the skill and dedication necessary to provide you with superior service, installation, and repair.This is the story of a happy family that got too hot and sweaty. They'd lived in their house for a while, and everything was fine at first. The central air conditioning system kept them nice and cool. Over the past few years, however—they're not sure exactly when it started—their 'Home, Sweet Home' started turning into their 'Home, Sweat Home.'

One day, for no apparent reason, the air conditioner couldn't even keep the air inside their home at the 85° F temperature that they'd gotten (sort of) used to. Mom told everyone to check throughout the house and feel for air flow at the supply registers, but no one felt the faintest whisper of air coming out of them at all. Come to think of it, not a single person in the happy family could remember the last time that they had actually noticed air coming out of the vents.Dad marched them all out to the backyard on that hot afternoon to see if the air conditioner was running. Little Cindy thought she'd heard a huge clunking kind of sound — Kwaaaa-klurnp-Kwaaaa-klurnp-Kwaaaa-klurnp, it went — back there earlier in the day, but as they stared blankly at that old metal box, it just sat there, silently soaking up the summer sun, making no pretense that it was doing anything to cool their home. They knew it was finally time to call the air conditioning service company. When the HVAC company's truck arrived at their house, the repairman quickly discovered that the compressor had failed completely.

Then he went inside and looked at the blower and evaporator coil. He went ahead and took the whole thing apart and learned quickly that there was no use in trying to restore their old air conditioner. They needed a new one. Here's what he found that probably killed it. From the top, the evaporator coil didn't look so bad. As you can see below, the fins look nice and clean so the air should have been able to move freely through them.ac unit in spanishThat was the output side of the evaporator coil. how big is a 3 ton ac unitWhen he turned it over to look at the side where the air went into the evaporator coil fins, he saw this.install outside central ac unit Let's zoom in a little.That is one heck of a lot of sludge! It's amazing that they lived with this system as long as they did.

But it's not surprising they felt no air coming out of the supply vents. The coil is covered almost 100% with dirt that turned to sludge when it hit the wet coil. Let's zoom in just a little more for jollies.Is it any wonder they felt no air coming out of the vents? I made up the story about the happy family above because all I know is that my friend Jake Reid at Moncreif Heating & Air Conditioning gave me this coil from a dead air conditioner that they had replaced. It's not hard to see, though, that this air conditioner wasn't doing much to keep the house cool. It's hard to condition air when no air can flow through. The problem here was that a lot of dirt got through the duct system and the filter. So, how did it get so dirty? Again, I don't know the actual story behind this one, but one possibility is that the air bypassed the filter. It might do that when a filter doesn't cover the entire duct, as shown at right. Another possibility would be that there's a lot of leakage between the filter and the blower, and the system pulls in dirty crawl space or attic air.

When you put the filter at the return grille in the house, that could easily happen. Also, the dirtier the filter gets, the more air it'll pull in through the leakage sites rather than from the house, where it's supposed to be pulling all its air from. Here are a few tips to make sure you don't end up with a coil that looks like the one above. There's no excuse for a coil as dirty as the one I showed you here. Take care of your air conditioner, and it won't die of asphyxiation like this one did. Let it die a natural death. You know, the kind that results from planned obsolescence. It's always healthier when you can direct your anger at manufacturers rather than yourself. Photo Friday - HVAC Filter HorrorsThis is not the actual happy family of the story. In fact, I don't even know if the family who owned this AC was happy. For all I know, the home may have been occupied by a miserable and lonely team of retired mud wrestlers, which could be another explanation for the state of that coil.