kms254
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Ok I know this is not a "Home forum" but we have a lot of smart guys here so I thought I would ask.
Ok, its hot outside, I know this but my house is not cooling like it should. At night it was only getting the house temps down to 81, with the thermostat set at 74. I started investigating and found that the low pressure line was frozen over. I am a new home owner and we had a home warranty. I have always been quite skeptical of them, but I was hot, it was late and I was not thinking rationally. I called them to put a request in, and the service man came out yesterday.
He asked me what was wrong, I told him what I had looked at and what I had done, I showed him pictures of the low pressure line being frozen over. He asked if I had changed the filters, and I had. He walked out to the outside unit and said they were "severely dirty," before I bought the home in march I had an ac repair man do and inspection and he did not mention that they were even mildly dirty, but it is possible to get dirty so I was like ok.
He said it would be 99 bucks to have the first one cleaned and 75 for the second, we have two units, and upstairs works fine. He then told me that because it was so dirty the line pressures were up and he could not get a true reading and if he added freon to the system it could burn stuff out and cause other failures. He also mentioned that if we did not do it, he would tell the home warranty people and they would not pay out on any other claims for the hvac system. I felt kind of strong armed, but its hot and what was I going to do.
So the line pressure before cleaning was suction:50, high pressure 240, after the cleaning(he was really reluctant to give these to me and tried his best not to), suction: 56, high pressure 220. He then added a half a pound of freon and the final numbers was 80 and 275.
Ok, so the night comes around and the house is not cooling down less then 80, so we are a little bit better then where we started but not by much. I got a thermometer and measured the intake temperature to be right at ambient room temperature of 80 and the temperature of the air coming out of the registers to be about 75. Now remember this is at night, its still hot but not 100 degrees like during the day and it was late like midnight, so the residual heat should have been dissipated.
I think I got screwed out of the cleaning, but I figured at this point it was something that should be done twice a year and i watched closely at what he did and what products he used so i could do it myself in the future. I still don't think the problem with my ac unity is fixed. A delta of 5 degrees between intake and cooled air is not that much.
Does any one have any ideas, or know a trustworthy company in the jackson ms metro area?
Ok, its hot outside, I know this but my house is not cooling like it should. At night it was only getting the house temps down to 81, with the thermostat set at 74. I started investigating and found that the low pressure line was frozen over. I am a new home owner and we had a home warranty. I have always been quite skeptical of them, but I was hot, it was late and I was not thinking rationally. I called them to put a request in, and the service man came out yesterday.
He asked me what was wrong, I told him what I had looked at and what I had done, I showed him pictures of the low pressure line being frozen over. He asked if I had changed the filters, and I had. He walked out to the outside unit and said they were "severely dirty," before I bought the home in march I had an ac repair man do and inspection and he did not mention that they were even mildly dirty, but it is possible to get dirty so I was like ok.
He said it would be 99 bucks to have the first one cleaned and 75 for the second, we have two units, and upstairs works fine. He then told me that because it was so dirty the line pressures were up and he could not get a true reading and if he added freon to the system it could burn stuff out and cause other failures. He also mentioned that if we did not do it, he would tell the home warranty people and they would not pay out on any other claims for the hvac system. I felt kind of strong armed, but its hot and what was I going to do.
So the line pressure before cleaning was suction:50, high pressure 240, after the cleaning(he was really reluctant to give these to me and tried his best not to), suction: 56, high pressure 220. He then added a half a pound of freon and the final numbers was 80 and 275.
Ok, so the night comes around and the house is not cooling down less then 80, so we are a little bit better then where we started but not by much. I got a thermometer and measured the intake temperature to be right at ambient room temperature of 80 and the temperature of the air coming out of the registers to be about 75. Now remember this is at night, its still hot but not 100 degrees like during the day and it was late like midnight, so the residual heat should have been dissipated.
I think I got screwed out of the cleaning, but I figured at this point it was something that should be done twice a year and i watched closely at what he did and what products he used so i could do it myself in the future. I still don't think the problem with my ac unity is fixed. A delta of 5 degrees between intake and cooled air is not that much.
Does any one have any ideas, or know a trustworthy company in the jackson ms metro area?
