
5 Home Cooling Myths You Need To Know
Homeowners and business owners are always looking for ways to use energy more efficiently with the aim of reducing their utility bills while minimizing their carbon footprint at the same time. However, along the way, certain ideas have surfaced about how people believe they ought to use their AC, versus how the AC actually operates. At Canoga Heating and Air Conditioning, formally MightyServ, we want to examine and debunk five commonly held home cooling myths many homeowners fall susceptible to so that they can understand the truth about their heating and cooling systems. Air Conditioners Produce Fresh Air Contrary to what many people believe, ACs do not let in, create, or generate fresh air. Rather, they refrigerate the air within a room. Air conditioning units have a chemical compound called refrigerant, housed within a closed system of coils. The air conditioner forces this refrigerant to evaporate and condense into a gas, and as this happens, it becomes colder. This chemical compound changes from liquid back to gas in a constant cycle through the condenser. While this is happening, a fan moves warm air from the room over the refrigerant–filled coils to cool it. The heat generated by the conversion process