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Article: Take the heat off your air conditioner; if the high cost of keeping cool makes you hot under the collar, try these tips for reducing summer electric bills.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 1986
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TAKE THE HEAT OFF YOUR AIR CONDITIONER
A large Texas-based heating and air-conditioning contractor tells it like it is: "Most people use an air conditioner like they do an automobile," he says. "They don't worry about efficiency. They just pay the fuel bill and run the darned thing until it quits. Then they call the service-man."
Few of the 50 million U.S. owners of air conditioning understand how air conditioners work. Most of us set thermostats too low and forget to change filters. We stack lawn furniture on the outside condenser housings and let grass clippings clog the coils. Most important, we fail to have the systems checked professionally at ...