Window AC Air Conditioner Maintenance: Mold Mildew Smell Breathing Problems

Always want clean your filter run it under hot soapy water at least several times during the summer; this is your number one line of defense as far as cleaning out particles that are gonna get recirculated through your living area. Because that is what air conditioners do: they recirculate the air after they bring it into your living environment. That is usually where most people stop however there is a lot more to do! How these new window units are designed is you have got a fan which is bringing an air from the outside and if you can see here in getting here see this trough, this piece of plastic that is connected and can you see on the bottom with the groove in it that trough is how the water is recirculated. The water that collects from the condensation in the rainfall hanging outside your window recirculates that water against the cooling coils. Okay that is the cooling agent the air conditioning unit and cools down your motor, however the problem with that is at that standing water is in the bottom of your AC unit all season long and that's a Petri dish for mold and mildew which is gonna make you sick because you're gonna be breathing all that in so it's kind of a catch-22: these new window units do cool off the motor reduce your electricity bill a little bit, but if you have a mold or mildew situation it's bad news. What I do is I drill a hole here where the water collects on the bottom of the coils. And with a steel drill bit I just kind a puncture the metal because if you go any further you will puncture your copper fre on coils and then your unit is finished, like throw it out in the garbage.  So if you want to do a little mod here not have standing water in the bottom, just drill one hole through that and that's going to drain your water. Your AC motor will run a little hotter, but for me, where I live in Northeast I just turn it off at night just keep it on the hottest days, so proceed with caution on that but that's what I do. Basically what you want to do is just hit with compressed air and get where there's spider webs with vinegar or bleach rag. This is pretty cheap stuff you do not want to see any black dots any mildew or any mold of any kind, just wanna see clean white; do the same thing to outside coil: keep it clean around here make sure everything is nice and clean.  This year it looks really good for the next season.  Please give a thumbs up if you enjoy this video; would be great to have you on board as a subscriber.