According to an Heating, Ventilation, and A/C specialist that I watch on YouTube, wrapping your outdoor A.C.
unit while in the depths of Wintertide isn’t all that necessary, but many people in snow zones recently witnessed a big icicle fall from the edge of a roof and busted straight through the top grill above the condenser fan! During Springtime, though, calls come in to Heating, Ventilation, and A/C service companies because they start to see complications with cooling system cooling.
An Heating, Ventilation, and A/C tech easily will be dispatched to a home, walk to the side or around back, and quickly see the heat pump still wrapped up from the Wintertide time… The embarassed beach house owners literally forgot to unwrap their A.C. units and checked every little thing but the unit when they had trouble. Securing a piece of wood right on top of the fan guard will be enough to shield your fan from getting wrecked in this situation. This also prevents snow from compacting into ice right on your fan blades which can be rough on the motor, but it can also throw your fan easily off balance, run the motor hot, and become noisy as an unwanted result of the weight imbalance! When wrapping your outdoor Heating, Ventilation, and A/C unit for the season, be sure to spray the inside with bug killer. See if you can find an easy way to make to unit “pest free” because it will act as a shelter from wind and terrible weather, however bugs, mice, squirrels, and snakes like little places to escape from nature’s worst seasons. If there are venomous snakes where you reside, remove your careful wrapping after Wintertide with extreme caution.