How To Clean The Indoor Air Conditioner Of A Split AirCon

http://www.home-electronics-review.blogspot.com - This short movie shows the various stages in dismantling the air cooling unit of a split air conditioner. ( The compressor is outside the house and the cooling unit is wall mounted )

The dirty parts are then clean with a chemical solution, before being flush and rinse with clean tap water.


You will need a skilled technician to do it. Ordinary cleaning of a wall mounted will not removed all the hidden dirt and mould as this video shows.

If you are skilled yourself, you can also do it.You need other equipment like handtools, gas pressure gauge, and aircon gas to recharge the compressor after reassembly.

People proned to breathing problems like sinus irritations and asthma suffers are advise to clean their aircon in this manner every 6 months.

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• asthma
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[ros53]

I wouldn't try this at home!, if you pull the unit off the wall and disconnect the pipes you will lose your Refrigerant and thus need a service call to re-charge, and going at about $80 per Kilo of Refrigerant plus labour it could be a costly excersice! just use the attachment on your vacume and clean the filters regularly you should never have any major problems :)

[cinemamania]

yes quite right about that. lucky for me the aircon is install with valves at the compressor side and screw joints at the wall unit side. quite a bit of refrigerant was lossed in the process, mostly that remaining in the pipes and in the wall unit, as the tech that did the cleaning turn off the valve at the compressor side.

Since this major cleaning, I have used a steam cleaner to clean the blower fan and also some of the reachable surface.

Looking forward to some new aircon design.

[fourfortyroadrunner]

This is a good example of why I detest "consumer goods" I worked in HVAC for over 12 years,  and have cleaned my share of coils. When we installed a coil, "if possible" we installed them in such a way that they can be cleaned. These wallmount split units are merely toys. If you have one that gets that heavy use, next time "buy a real one."

[cinemamania]

yes fourfortyroadrunner, air cons like this have not change much for about a 100 years already, just cosmetic changes.

Even though they are toys I believe these toys created a billion dollars industry for many.

Unfortunately that is all that is available to most consumers at the moment.

Fancy cooling systems like floor pipes cannot be installed in apartments.

[kmsawood]

it is possable to clean the air con in your house without removeing the coil its always recomended not to open the system and to keep sealed so to go this far is a bit extreme

[cinemamania]

Hi kmsawood.

Thanks for taking a interest in the video.

The removable air filter just under the covers can be cleaned without dismantling the aircon. This should be clean preferably monthly.

For the inner parts like the cooling coil, blower motor, back casing hidden surfaces, the only way is to dismantle the aircon and do a thourought cleaning.

Try it once to see.

[HappySlave1]

@fourfortyroadrunner Are you perhaps implying that we should all get ducted systems, and what is toyish about wall mounted splits, just curious?

[HappySlave1]

@TheNecyomantia if they are refilling the gas there is a problem with your install, split systems along with all HVAC are closed systems, you should never have to refill the gas 

[TheNecyomantia]

@ros53

$80 for every kilo !!!!! WoW. I got myself an LG split with 5 year AMC. Every 3-4 months the indoor needs full service along with a coolant gas refill. They seem to do it for free. By the way the 5yr AMC cost me $140.

[TheNecyomantia]

@djrpr123

I Have never seen a "Professional" LG servicemen I call every 3 months carefully avoiding the release of this gas into the air. Whether they give a shit about the laws or the environment i don't know. Next time they come visit, I'll take a video showing you guys the "Professional" quality of their work.

[Qayyum9146218]

@ros53 hahaha u don,t have mind ros53 you won,t lose refrigerant becoz it is locked in outdoor unit before removing unit from pipes. but im suprise why refrigerant gas is expensive in 80 $???? im in pakistan and here 1 kg cost 1500 rupes i mean less than 15 dollar

[boldlush]

u cant do that at home!!

[phs84]

this is dangerous and this video should be removed !!!! even if you turn the vales off at the outdoor unit you still lose all gas in the pipe and its dangerous and bad for the environment and banned in most countries !!!! if you insist on doing it you need to call some one with some what of an idea and they can put all the gas back into the out door unit then close the valves then disconnect it. this is a stupid video

[kanjeff05]

i would not recommend disconnecting your evaporator coils from the wall unit, you will release all your freon refrigerant. just clean and vacuum your blow fan most importantly and filter. Just take out the whole front cover, thats its.

[farooquemallah]

This sort of service, at home, should not be promoted. This may result harms as well as big loss, to save smaller profit; it is also not easy for non-technical.

[jo5erock]

Thank a lot man I didn´t learn anything about washing or how to keep my ac clean, how about a tutorial? you just showed us what you did but didn´t show HOW, I so frustrated trying to find a good tutorial on this and nothing, if anyone knows a good one please let me know or send me the link, thanks!