Summer is finally here, and it’s important for homeowners to remember to clear out around the exterior portions of the A/C units at their homes. This is something that I somehow forget to do every year, even though I know that it is very important! I don’t know why I always forget to do this, since every year I end up having some kind of an issue with the exterior part of my air conditioning system. The exterior portion of our air conditioning system is back behind the garage where we never tend to go. The only thing that is back there is a bunch of storage for the summer items that we use and a big pile of yard tools. So I guess it makes sense that I forget that the air conditioning unit is back there too. Unfortunately for me, that’s where all of the yard debris tends to pile up and leaves fall from the roof back there pretty regularly. All of this debris ends up getting piled on top of the air conditioning unit. It really needs to be cleaned off thoroughly before we start using the air conditioning system in the late spring each year. If this is the case at your house, let me caution you to go ahead and make sure that the air conditioning unit is cleaned off thoroughly! If you don’t, you can end up with costly air conditioning repairs. That has happened to me before when a large branch got stuck down inside of the fan blades of the unit.