The Fix-It Playbook — Spring AC Checklist

Twenty dollars and an afternoon in spring is the cheapest insurance an air conditioner will ever get.

Five checks, done before the first hot day, catch the things that take systems down in July — a choked filter, a condenser coil packed with a winter's worth of debris, a drain line about to clog, closed or blocked registers, and a cool-down test that tells you whether anything is still wrong while it's cheap to find out.

On one printable page: all five checks in order, what you need for each, and what a bad result actually means.

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