I do not remember when our lake house did not have an A/C because I have had mine for years.
This is the 13th year without much of a complaint. Besides the genuinely occasional a/c repairs that our Heating and A/C specialist handles, the component works perfectly. So what is our hack? Well, I just listened to the advice our Heating and A/C specialist offered me years ago when the people I was with and I first had the component installed. I trusted the Heating and A/C supplier I contracted to find me a suitable system for our lake house since I was pretty yellow in this area back then. They first came in addition to measured the room sizes in addition to took note of other aspects such as the number of windows I had in our home in addition to the insulation on the attic in addition to walls. Once this was done, they brought in a perfectly-sized component that was professionally installed. From that time, all I have had to do officially is to change filters, clean the condenser, in addition to periodically vacuum the vents. I make sure to have the professionals come in at least before Winter time in addition to summer time every year. They check for leaks, give the ducts a professional deep clean, check for leaks, in addition to give the component an overall tune-up. This gets me through summer time in addition to Winter time without any hitches, no matter how severe these two seasons get. I recently discovered that our unintentional habit of switching our a/c off every once in a while, especially when the weather is favorable, may have contributed to this. Whether temperature swings happen rarely, our A/C component can be off for two weeks on warmer in addition to cooler days. These kinds of breaks help the component stay in wonderful shape since always running the a/c component leads to most of the components wearing out before their intended time.