If you’ve just invested in a fantastic new split system air conditioner for your home or office, and you feel both handy and confident, you might decide to reduce the overall costs by handling installation yourself with the help of some willing volunteers. While that might appear to save money in the short term, it may equally prove to be a false economy. A split system air conditioner should be professionally installed, and below are some of the most important reasons why.

Reason 1: Any Mistakes Could Prove Costly

Setting up an air conditioning system of any size or scale is a matter of quite major precision and skill. Whether you’re putting in small individual units in rooms at home, or installing a large-scale duct system across an office floor, there are precise measurements to be taken, exact amounts of material to be pre-ordered and prepared. It takes a lot of planning and execution.

What’s more, the entire system has to fit together flawlessly once it’s installed. Even the smallest error could lead to leaks, or other disruptions in your home or workplace, and that could cause huge (and expensive) damage.

Reason 2: Professional Installers Offer More Insight

When you’re looking to purchase and install an AC system, a professional installation team will have a much better understanding of what should be done where and why, what should be installed where and why, and so on. If you’re going to attempt the job yourself, or just with a willing group of volunteers (even with some construction experience) there are tips, tricks and key bits of knowhow that the pros have that you never will.

These insights will help you not only ensure a problem-free installation, but also help you to set up the system in a more logical and convenient way. It might be more energy-efficient as a result, or ensure better functionality.

Reason 3: Professionals are Trained to Deal with Any Problems

Even when the professionals get on with the job of installing an AC system, there are things that can go wrong. It’s at those times when you want to be sure you have a strong and professional team on hand to deal with disasters as and when they arise. If you are doing a DIY job and something happens, it will likely take you a long time to regroup and take action, meaning that problems have an opportunity to grow and become more serious.

Reason 4: It Will Be Faster

If you want the job to be done on-time to allow you to either move into your comfortable new air-conditioned home, or into your fancy new office space, then you should always leave it to the people who are best trained to get the job done.

The main thing that will usually hold up a planned purchasing and installation of an air conditioning system is when mistakes are made or structural/building are suddenly discovered. Such sudden mistakes tend to arise when planning is not done properly, and when structural limitations are not spotted in advance. Once again, the professionals will detect these things and avoid them, inevitably finishing the project in a much faster time.

Reason 5: DIY Installation Could Void the Warranty

Finally, the manufacturers of air conditioners are no fools. They know all too well that things can and do go wrong with these systems, and that’s why they have to do everything possible to ensure that they aren’t paying out for repairs that aren’t their responsibility. One good way of doing that is building it into the warranty that only qualified and licensed professionals can work on these systems.