3 Tips for Taking Care of Window Air Conditioner Units Yesterday, we featured 5 Tips for Annual Air Conditioner Maintenance. It was a helpful article for anyone with central A/C, but Unplggd reader Amanda H pointed out that we completely neglected many small, cool dwellers with window or free-standing air conditioning units. Just like any other appliance in your place, the window A/C also needs tender love and care. Make sure to give it a thorough cleaning at least once a year: 1. Wash the filter. The main thing to do to upkeep your window unit is to make sure you wash the filter screen on a regular basis. After popping out the front grill of the unit with a putty knife, remove the mesh filter. Wash it together with the grill in a mixture of warm, soapy water and bleach to remove any mold. 2. Clean the coils. You'll find evaporator coils underneath the filter. To keep your A/C going strong, you'll want to vacuum them thoroughly using a brush attachment. Remove any stubborn dirt with a plastic scrub brush.

Do the same thing with the condenser coils at the back of the A/C unit. The idea is that extra debris gets in the way of air flow—an your cool air. Use a fin comb to straighten any bent coil fins. You can find fin combs at a home or hardware store or online for around $10. (Image: Flickr user skeddy in NYC under license from Creative Commons.)Important: Please report inappropriate ads by sending a message to . Please include the Posting ID located in the header of each ad. Courtesy of our friends at the Lo-Down, here’s a photo of an SUV, on Pitt Street in the Lower East Side, with a standard window air conditioner unit in a back window (à la Mayor Bloomberg, except it’s not stationary). Maybe the car’s A/C is broken, or maybe this guy just likes being really, really cold. Either way, if you were already afraid of air conditioners falling from the sky — and you should be — now you have to worry about them hurtling out of speeding cars as well. Flying air conditioners are our Sharknado.

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