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Florida is the hardest place in America to be an air conditioner

A Central Florida AC runs most of the year, often 12 or more hours a day through summer, in humidity that forces it to do two jobs at once: cooling the air and wringing the water out of it. That workload is why maintenance schedules that sound excessive up north are baseline here.

• Have the system professionally tuned up at least once a year, ideally in spring before peak season
• Check the filter monthly in summer - a clogged filter is the cheapest AC failure to prevent
• Keep the outdoor condenser clear: two feet of clearance, no vines, no leaning fence panels
• Pour a cup of vinegar down the condensate drain line a few times a year; a clogged drain line is one of Florida's most common AC service calls and can shut the system down or leak into the ceiling

Repair, or start planning the replacement?

A well-maintained system in Florida typically lasts 10 to 15 years - less than in mild climates, because it simply works more hours. As a rule of thumb, when a unit is past 10 years old and a repair quote crosses roughly half the cost of replacement, replacement usually wins on math alone: newer systems cool with dramatically less electricity, and refrigerant for many older units (R-22) is no longer produced, which makes their repairs disproportionately expensive.