Annual servicing and repair for homes and businesses. F-Gas qualified, which is a legal requirement for anyone touching the refrigerant circuit.
Air conditioning that has not been touched in three years will still blow cold air, roughly. It will just be working considerably harder to do it, drawing more electricity, and quietly heading towards a failure in the middle of the hottest week of the year.
SWW services air conditioning across Exeter and Devon, for homes and for businesses. We are F-Gas qualified, which is a legal requirement for anyone handling refrigerant.
The single biggest cause of poor performance, and the one thing that gets ignored. A blocked filter makes the unit work harder for less cooling.
Indoor and outdoor. A dirty condenser coil cannot dump heat properly, which drags efficiency down across the whole system.
A system low on refrigerant is a system with a leak. We find out where rather than just topping it up and coming back next year.
A blocked drain is how air conditioning ends up leaking water down the wall. It takes minutes to check and it saves a lot of mess.
Connections, contactors and controls checked, and anything starting to wear flagged before it fails.
For commercial systems in scope of the F-Gas rules, the leak check and the records are done at the same visit.
Most people use their air conditioning for two months a year and leave it alone the rest of the time. That is a waste of a machine you have already paid for.
Modern units are heat pumps. They will warm a room in winter at a fraction of what a plug-in electric heater costs, because they move heat rather than making it. If you have a home office, a conservatory or a bedroom over the garage, the unit on the wall is the cheapest way to heat it, and most owners have never tried.
Residential air-to-air heat pump installations now have their own £2,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant category. Eligibility depends on the property and the system, so ask us to check yours against the current rules.
Once a year for a domestic system. Commercial systems usually want servicing annually as well, and if the refrigerant charge is at or above 5 tonnes CO2 equivalent there is a separate legal requirement for periodic leak checks on top.
Most often a blocked filter or a dirty coil, both of which a service sorts. If it is genuinely low on refrigerant, that means there is a leak somewhere, and topping it up without finding the leak just means you pay for the same gas again next year.
Less than most people assume, and modern units are far more efficient than the ones people remember. Used in heating mode over winter it will usually be considerably cheaper than a plug-in electric heater, because a heat pump moves heat rather than generating it.
You can clean the filters yourself, and you should. Anything involving the refrigerant circuit legally has to be done by an F-Gas qualified engineer.
Yes. Most of the systems we service were put in by somebody else.
F-Gas qualified installation for homes and businesses across Exeter and Devon.
Washroom refurbishment and full interior fit out across the South West.
Heat pump installation with the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant deducted from your quote.
