Every Texan’s worse nightmare – AC problems in the summer!
We moved into this place back in February, and the AC has been cooling decently this summer, if not outstandingly. It was draining a lot of water out the pipe on the side of the house, enough to have a puddle of water on the ground, so I called someone out to fix that a couple of days ago.
Well, now it’s barely cooling at all. I call the AC company back out, and they say it has too much freon. Supposedly it should be between 65-75, and ours is reading 110. They want $300 to evacuate and re-charge the system.
Well, that sounds pretty fishy to me. Seems like if it that was the problem we would have started having problems as soon as we turned it on back in the Spring, not here at the tail end of the summer.
I know it’s hard to diagnose a cooling problem “long distance,” as it were, but does this sound plausible, the system not cooling because it has too much freon?
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
We moved into this place back in February, and the AC has been cooling decently this summer, if not outstandingly. It was draining a lot of water out the pipe on the side of the house, enough to have a puddle of water on the ground, so I called someone out to fix that a couple of days ago.
Well, now it’s barely cooling at all. I call the AC company back out, and they say it has too much freon. Supposedly it should be between 65-75, and ours is reading 110. They want $300 to evacuate and re-charge the system.
Well, that sounds pretty fishy to me. Seems like if it that was the problem we would have started having problems as soon as we turned it on back in the Spring, not here at the tail end of the summer.
I know it’s hard to diagnose a cooling problem “long distance,” as it were, but does this sound plausible, the system not cooling because it has too much freon?
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt