Hurricane season is upon us, and at Polar Bear Air Conditioning, we want to ensure you’re fully prepared to keep your home and air conditioning system safe.

Here are some essential tips to help you get ready:

1. Secure Your Air Conditioning Unit

Hurricane Straps: Use hurricane straps to secure your outdoor unit. This helps prevent it from being displaced or damaged by high winds.

Mesh Covers: Install mesh covers to protect your unit from flying debris, leaves, and critters that can cause internal damage.

2. Protect Against Power Surges

Surge Protection: Invest in a surge protector for your air conditioner. This helps prevent damage from voltage spikes that often occur during storms.

3. Prevent Corrosion:

Sea Coating & Sacrificial Anodes: These upgrades provide crucial protection against the corrosive effects of salty air and water, prolonging the life of your unit.

The image above is a unit located on the west coast of the island with sea coating & sacrificial anodes.

The above image is an A/C unit located on the south coast of the island without any Polar Air customizations.

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Additional Tips for Hurricane Preparedness:

Stock Up on Supplies: Make sure you have essential supplies like water, non-perishable food, flashlights, and batteries.

Create an Emergency Plan: Have a plan in place for your family, including evacuation routes and emergency contacts.

Secure Outdoor Items: Bring in or secure outdoor furniture, grills, and other items that can become projectiles in high winds.

Stay Safe this Hurricane Season

Full Hurricane Protection Package

1. HURRICANE STRAPS – Core drill and set high strength L-Brackets and secure equipment to reduce storm damage.
2. SEA COATING – This is ideal for systems with moderate coil corrosion or near the sea coast to help extend the life of the system and maintain efficiency. Remove outdoor condenser casing, wash condenser coil and apply coil foam cleaner, let cleaner stand for 10-20 minutes. Rinse cleaner and repeat if necessary. Run unit until coil is completely dry. Remove condenser casing and apply sea coating to protect from salt corrosion. Reinstall condenser casing.
3. CONDENSER MESH – Install condenser mesh to prevent debris and critters from entering condensing unit causing damage to condenser fan motor, condenser fan blades or control boards.
4. INSTALL PREMIUM SURGE PROTECTOR & VRM KIT – Installation of premium surge protector utilizing new to the market Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) Technology along with Thermally Fused Metal Oxide Varistors (TMOV) for ultimate protection. This kit also comes with a Voltage Range Monitor that monitors the line protecting equipment against over and under voltage conditions that can cause damage to circuit boards and motors. Included is a NEMA 3R enclosure protecting these components from the weather.
5. Surge Protector Warranty: Limited Lifetime
6. VRM Warranty: 2 years
7. Labor Warranty: 90 days
8. Disclaimer: this product will not protect your system from lightning strikes.
9. CORROSION GRENADE – The Corrosion Grenade® by A/C Zincs, Inc. provides a proven solution for extending the life of the air conditioning system’s aluminum fins. This deterioration is due to exposure to coastal environments. Economical and easy to install, the Corrosion Grenade® sacrificial anodes are an adaptation of a marine application for fighting galvanic corrosion. This is a truly green solution to a costly problem.

Normally $1767
Now $1299

Basic Hurricane Protection Package

1. CORROSION GRENADE – The Corrosion Grenade® by A/C Zincs, Inc. provides a proven solution for extending the life of the air conditioning system’s aluminum fins. This deterioration is due to exposure to coastal environments. Economical and easy to install, the Corrosion Grenade® sacrificial anodes are an adaptation of a marine application for fighting galvanic corrosion. This is a truly green solution to a costly problem.
2. SEA COATING – This is ideal for systems with moderate coil corrosion or near the sea coast to help extend the life of the system and maintain efficiency. Remove outdoor condenser casing, wash condenser coil and apply coil foam cleaner, let cleaner stand for 10-20 minutes. Rinse cleaner and repeat if necessary. Run unit until coil is completely dry. Remove condenser casing and apply sea coating to protect from salt corrosion. Reinstall condenser casing.
3. CONDENSER MESH – Install condenser mesh to prevent debris and critters from entering condensing unit causing damage to condenser fan motor, condenser fan blades or control boards.

Normally $823
Now $499.00