PaunchyPirate
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PSA: Chipmunks can damage outside air conditioning units.
The AC guy just left my house. I had called them in when it was clear that my AC was not adequately cooling the house during the last few days hot spell. I've never had problems cooling my house to my desired 75 degrees or slightly lower until this year. It had been running nearly continuously and only managing to cool the house down to about 77 degrees. Well, as it turns out, the outside unit wasn't actually running at all -- I hadn't noticed that!
Chipmunks had built a nest up inside the outside unit and it had broken an electrical contact device. The unit wasn't even powering on. It was repairable and cost me $265 for the pleasure.
The good news is that the coolant didn't need replaced as the repair guy had guessed was the culprit. In case you didn't know, older systems that use R-22 coolant are now much more expensive, if not impossible, to have their coolant recharged. Meaning most that have this issue are simply ruled out-dated and replaced. My system is indeed past it's expected lifespan, so I would have likely just replaced the whole system. But for now, I'll pay the $265 and keep my old system until it totally collapses.
The AC guy just left my house. I had called them in when it was clear that my AC was not adequately cooling the house during the last few days hot spell. I've never had problems cooling my house to my desired 75 degrees or slightly lower until this year. It had been running nearly continuously and only managing to cool the house down to about 77 degrees. Well, as it turns out, the outside unit wasn't actually running at all -- I hadn't noticed that!
Chipmunks had built a nest up inside the outside unit and it had broken an electrical contact device. The unit wasn't even powering on. It was repairable and cost me $265 for the pleasure.
The good news is that the coolant didn't need replaced as the repair guy had guessed was the culprit. In case you didn't know, older systems that use R-22 coolant are now much more expensive, if not impossible, to have their coolant recharged. Meaning most that have this issue are simply ruled out-dated and replaced. My system is indeed past it's expected lifespan, so I would have likely just replaced the whole system. But for now, I'll pay the $265 and keep my old system until it totally collapses.