Replacing an old air conditioning system: The useful "life" of an air conditioner can vary greatly. Such factors as climate, maintenance, care, quality and capacity can increase or decrease the service of a system by months and even years. On the average, a residential central air conditioner will last from 10 to 15 years.
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Installations
Continental Engineering will professionally evaluate your heating and cooling requirements
and provide you with the very best solution that will meet or exceed your expectations.
Our professionally trained installers are motivated to provide quality services
and extraordinary customer service. Our own personnel perform ALL work and we are
State licensed, bonded and insured.
Our supervisory personnel follow up all of our major installations with a Quality
Control Inspection, and we operate a 24-hour emergency service to insure your peace
of mind.
Back when your home was new, the cooling and heating equipment was probably state-of-the-art.
In other words, the efficiency was the best available at the time.
For example, if your home was built before 1991, the SEER (Seasonal Energy Efficiency
Ratio) of your air conditioner was probably about 6.0. After that, the U.S. Government
said all new homes had to have units with a minimum 10.0 SEER rating. Today, the
Department of Energy states that as of January 23, 2006 the minimum SEER will be
13.0. higher efficient units are available anywhere between 14.0 and 20.5 SEER.
Your heating system also has an efficiency rating. It's called AFUE (Annual Fuel
Utilization Efficiency), and it tells how efficiently the furnace uses gas or oil.