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Hot summer months and your home for sale.

June 1, 2013 by khproperties Leave a Comment

Melting Faces

Is it hot in here?

When showing homes in the hot summer months, many of us have been through the same thing: us and our clients dying from the heat inside the home for sale. As the temperatures climb, homes heat up fast and that hot, stick, stuffy air can destroy your home’s potential. In real estate, we talk a lot about smells, curb appeal, eliminating clutter, and depersonalizing your home when you list it for sale, but one thing we should be talking about here in San Antonio is the indoor temperature.

If you’re home is on the market, you need to keep the home at a comfortable temperature. It may cost a few extra dollars on your electricity bill, but remember, people’s immediate perceptions of a home often determine whether they buy the home or move onto the next home for sale on their list. Can you afford to take that risk? While many people let the temperature rise during the day time and set their A/C to be cooler at night (when they’re home), most showing take place during the day, when the sun can be blistering hot. Keep that in mind. When we walk into a nice cool home with our clients, they often comment things such as “the A/C certainly works well, that’s a plus.” Already, they’re setting themselves in the home and feeling comfortable because a major system is functioning well. Now they can get down to business and because they’re not pouring sweat from every pore, they can stay longer and truly get a feel for your home. If your air conditioning unit isn’t functioning properly, contact an air conditioning repair technician from the expert ac services near you to fix it before listing your home for sale. An ac repair service before listing your home may help you pass the inspection and may even help sell your home. For additional AC maintenance guidance and options contact ac tune up in Kennedale, TX.

So what’s it going to be? A steam bath and no sale or a larger electric bill and comfortable buyers who might just make you an offer?

photo courtesy of Orin Zebest

Filed Under: Sell Your Home Tagged With: advice, summer, selling your home, curb appeal

Summer Heat and Your Air Conditioner

June 27, 2012 by khproperties Leave a Comment

Summer Heat in San Antonio

It’s getting hot in here, but unlike you, your home can’t take off all its clothes.

The systems in your home are designed to withstand normal temperature variances, but once the mercury starts to make a fast move northward in those thermometers, you may see problems arise. We most frequently hear about these issues during the winter with freezing pipes, but the summer months can be just as damaging to your home’s main systems, which may result in the need to get a commercial hvac and furnace replacement.

Think about an HVAC system and it is Recommended Reading this site if you need to know more about it, which really is designed to cool about twenty degrees below outside temperatures for normal operation. Yesterday’s high here in San Antonio reached 105, which would mean that the average A/C really could only support cooling to 85 without some serious overhaul. I don’t know about you, but even 85 doesn’t seem that appealing to me. Plus, you have to consider that the extra work you put on your system to try and get below that temp could be too much, especially for smaller or older systems. End result? A frozen up or even broken cooling system and the need for a new ac unit installation in Cedar Park, TX.

So to keep your system from reaching its limits, always remember to have an ac maintenance, furnace maintenance or your units serviced regularly by experts like Stillwater, OK furnace services (twice per year is recommended), and coolant levels checked. Insulating your home isn’t just for the winter either and proper, efficient insulation can keep the cold in and frustration (not to mention electric bills) at a minimum. Look up ac repair near me to find some reputable contractors in your area.

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Filed Under: Homeowner Tips Tagged With: ac, san antonio, service, repair, summer, heat, air conditioning

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