How to Make clean your Swamp Libation Pads

Cleaning your swamp cooler pads is something that should be done on an almanac basis and is typically done when you beginning turn on your swamp cooler for the year. Cleaning your pads is a adequately simple procedure that tin make a big divergence. If you find that your swamp cooler is not working likewise and y'all haven't cleaned your pads nevertheless, you should consider washing them.

Why Cleaning Your Swamp Cooler Pads is Important

Cleaning your swamp cooler pads is important for a variety of reasons. In New Mexico, we tend to have difficult water, which contains dissolved rock, limestone or dissolved minerals like calcium, magnesium and sometimes iron. While not unsafe to your health, hard water tin create issues with your home's piping, fixtures, appliances, and of course, your swamp cooler. Over fourth dimension, difficult water minerals begin to harden and buildup on your swamp cooler pads. This can affect your cooler'south efficiency and even produce a fish-similar smell. Cleaning your pads annually helps manage mineral buildup, makes the pads concluding longer, removes foreign affair (like cottonwood seeds) and improves efficiency. For Mastercool swamp coolers, you should clean the pads annually and replace them every 3-5 years.

Direction on How to Make clean Your Swamp Cooler Pads

Below are step-past-step instructions on how to clean your swamp cooler pads. There is besides a video to walk you through it. Cleaning your pads is something that y'all can do yourself. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, telephone call your local plumber. This service is ordinarily included if you take someone come up out and start-upwards your swamp cooler at the showtime of the season. Nevertheless, yous should always inquire to make sure that it'due south a part of the service.

Equipment Yous Will Need:

  • Drill or Phillips Screwdriver – you'll demand a drill or screwdriver to gain access to the inside of your swamp cooler.
  • Protective Glasses – It'due south always important to wear personal protective equipment (PPE). Safety glasses or goggles will help protect your eyes from any unexpected droppings.
  • Gloves – This grade of PPE protects your easily from things like hot metal (your swamp libation could be very hot, depending on the time of 24-hour interval) and cuts or scratches.
  • Ladder – You lot'll need a ladder to access your roof. Be certain to make sure that the ladder is on a flat surface and is secure.
  • Hose – You'll demand some kind of hose in order to properly spray downwards your swamp cooler pads.
  • Flashlight – You may need a flashlight in order to look within the unit in order to run across where the power outlets are and unplug them.

Step past Step Instructions

1. Choose a Good Twenty-four hour period with Nice Weather

Make sure you take care of this on a squeamish day. Don't endeavour and get this washed if it's windy or stormy. Secure your ladder and make sure information technology is placed on firm, level ground. Visit the American Ladder Institute for full instructions on ladder condom.

2. Disconnect the Ability to your Swamp Cooler

You'll and then want to exist certain you've asunder the ability to the unit. Take off the panel on the side of your swamp cooler to gain access to the power outlet. Unplug the cords to both the pump and the motor. You'll find the receptacles on the inside of your unit.

3. Remove the Cooling Pads

The next step is to get the pads out. They are located in the front office of the libation with a mesh cover. You'll need to unscrew the panel in order to slide out the front covering. And so you lot'll remove the top panel, which will popular right off after you've removed the front mesh covering.

Once the pads are exposed, remove the distribution tube section laying on summit of the pads. This isn't connected to annihilation, so but pick it upwardly and set it off to the side. Exist sure to put items in a safe place, especially if you're on a slanted roof.

At this signal, the pads will easily slide on out and you may take several sections of pads depending on your cooler.

iv. Check the Pads Condition

Once the pads are out, be sure to check their status. Are they falling apart? Are they super heavy? If the reply is "aye" to either of these questions, then they probably have a lot of difficult h2o build-up and need to be replaced.

Afterward y'all audit the pads, safely transport them from the roof to the ground so y'all tin can launder them.

5. Cleaning the Cooling Pads

Once yous've moved the pads off the roof, milk shake them out manually (much like a rug). This is a simple way to get rid of some of the loose foreign thing within your pads.

Before washing, look at the side of each pad and look for instructions that will indicate which side is the forepart and back.

You'll then begin by backwashing the pads (showtime from the back and go to the front end). Grab your hose and tilt the pad at a down angle. Y'all'll meet slanted grooves on the sides that will show yous the pathways within each pad. This allows you to forcefulness the debris through the pad.

Go ahead and begin washing each pad thoroughly. If y'all are cleaning your pads and the calcium isn't coming off easily, chances are you lot demand new ones.

One time the pads are cleaned, carefully transport them back upwardly the ladder to the roof.

6. Identify Pads Back in Swamp Cooler

Place the pads back in their place and position the distribution tube section back on top of the pads.

Set the meridian metal panel back in place and then put the mesh console back in front and screw the panels back together.

7. Plug it all dorsum In

Plug both the swamp cooler motor and the pump back in. Place the metal panel roofing back in place and spiral it in.

And you're done! Easy-peasy, right?!

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Keanu Alaniz

Keanu has been with TLC for vi years and is a licensed HVAC technician. He has experience repairing and replacing furnace and air-conditioning units.