How to Prep Your Home for an HVAC Installation in Largo, FL
Installing a new HVAC system is a significant undertaking. You’ll need to prepare your home in Largo, FL, for the work that will take place there. To make the job as easy and efficient as possible, here’s how you should prepare for the arrival of HVAC professionals for an installation:
Take the Day Off
An HVAC installation is typically a long and laborious process that will probably eat up most of the day. As the installers perform their work, they will need to know how to navigate through your home and reach various pieces of critical equipment, like your circuit breaker. Therefore, you should make an effort to have someone present to supervise the proceedings on installation day.
If possible, schedule your HVAC installation for a day when you can afford not to go to work. If you can’t do this, at least make sure that someone whom you trust is there to greet the installation team.
Clear a Path for the Service Techs
When the HVAC installation team arrives, they will bring a great deal of heavy and cumbersome equipment. They will need to carry that equipment through your driveway, into your home, and through various rooms and hallways. They’ll also need to remove all of your old HVAC machinery from your home.
Therefore, you should strive to give installers as much space as possible to do their jobs. This may require you to move various pieces of furniture to other locations, prop doors open, park your car somewhere other than in your driveway and so on.
The more space the installation team has, the more quickly they’ll be able to work and the less likely they will be to damage HVAC equipment in the process. This will save you both time and money on possible future repairs.
Get Your Pets and Children Out of the Way
Pets and small children are even more likely to interfere with an HVAC installation team’s work than things like tables and chairs. If animals and kids are playing in a certain important area of your home they can get in the way of the installation. At best, your team will simply have to work around them, but at worst, injuries and damage to your home or equipment may occur.
The best way to avoid these risks and inconveniences is to simply remove the potential for problems on installation day. Have someone watch your children and pets, whether they’re outside the home for a day or simply outside of where the installation team will be working.
Get a Smart Thermostat
If you don’t own a smart thermostat, the benefits of getting one can be significant. Smart thermostats can learn your habits and help you save on energy bills. Your HVAC installation may or may not include installing such a device for you. If it does not, we suggest that you buy a smart thermostat in advance and install it.
Have Your Wi-Fi Password Ready
If you either already have a smart thermostat or plan to get one, you can ask the installation team to connect both your device and your new HVAC system to your home’s Wi-Fi network. This will allow your HVAC system to function much more efficiently and give your thermostat access to information that it can use to craft a more comfortable indoor environment for you.
To do this, the team will need to have your Wi-Fi password and be able to access your network. If you prepare the password in advance, you can make these events flow much more smoothly.
Once you’ve implemented the suggestions that we’ve discussed above, your home in Largo, FL, should be ready to receive a new HVAC system. After that, you’ll just need to call Advanced Cooling Systems to schedule AC or heating installation services.
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