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It\u2019s not polite to ask people their age\u2014unless they\u2019re children, in which case they\u2019ll probably tell you their exact age to half a year without you having to bring it up.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s not polite to ask people their age\u2014unless they\u2019re children, in which case they\u2019ll probably tell you their exact age to half a year without you having to bring it up.<\/p>\n
You never need to worry about offending your air conditioner by asking its age. But you may not know how to go about \u201casking.\u201d This can be a problem if you\u2019re debating whether to replace the system before next summer. An AC\u2019s age is a vital piece of info for choosing \u201crepair vs. replace.\u201d If you didn\u2019t originally install the air conditioner, you may have no idea how long it\u2019s been in your home.<\/p>\n
We can help. Discovering the age of a cooling system is simple once you know how. (Figuring out what to do afterwards is the tricky part!)<\/p>\n
Go to the outside cabinet of the air conditioning system. You\u2019ll find a metal nameplate attached to it containing the system\u2019s technical specs. On most units, the nameplate is fixed to the backside of the cabinet.<\/p>\n
Near the top of the nameplate you should see the manufacturer\u2019s date as a month and year. (Sometimes the manufacturer\u2019s date is abbreviated as MFR DATE.) If you find this, congratulations: you now know the \u201cbirth date\u201d of your AC. Easy!<\/p>\n
But the manufacturer\u2019s date may not be on the nameplate. In this case, take a digital snapshot of the plate. Using it as a reference, write down the model number, serial number, and brand. The manufacturer\u2019s date is imbedded in this data, and if you know where to look or whom to ask, you can extract it. One way is to go online and type this information into a search engine along with the words \u201cmanufacture date.\u201d What should pop up is a site explaining how to decode the serial number to find the manufacture\u2019s date.<\/p>\n
For example\u2014and this is only for one manufacturer\u2014you may learn that the serial number 7032TPW3F<\/em> for your brand and model of AC means the unit was manufactured in the 3rd fiscal week of 2007, i.e. January 2007. How did you determine this? The 7<\/em> represents the year, and 03<\/em> is the fiscal week. If you want to be extremely<\/em> specific, the 2<\/em> is the work day\u2014but you don\u2019t need to know this number unless you plan to throw your AC a birthday party.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t want to go into this level of Sherlock Holmes detection, call a local licensed HVAC contractor\u2014like us!\u2014and provide them the data. They can give you a fast answer about the air conditioner\u2019s age.<\/p>\n Now that you know the age of the AC, you must figure out if it\u2019s too<\/em> old. This is a whole other in-depth topic, and we suggest speaking to our HVAC professionals to find out if you should have a new AC system put in before next summer or if continuing with air conditioning repairs in Chicago<\/a>\u00a0is the best plan.<\/p>\n Discovering the age of a cooling system is simple once you know how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[23,14,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Next?<\/h2>\n
Ready to replace your AC? Or have it repaired?<\/a> ServiceMax is the contractor to call\u2014open all day, every day!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"