A/C Breakdown Fixes

Y’all, it’s hot outside. Thank god for climate control. There’s nothing much better than A/C in 90 plus degree weather, in the gross humidity of GA. But what are you to do when your climate control stops working? You could… suffer or you could fix it, but how? And when I ask how I mostly mean how much will it cost you and is there anything you can do to circumvent some of these costs?

FIX ONE: Did You Reset It?

I know. Look, I know what you’re thinking It’s not like your laptop, or a game system it’s an A/C. Yes, it’s not a common electronic, but it is an electronic. I know air conditioner units are this big block of thing sitting in a closet or your basement, that you don’t identify as being at all like your computer but there are indeed computerized parts in there. So, turning it on and off will help? Maybe, won’t hurt. Doing this… will take some work. I’m not going to be able to explain it to you but luckily Google exists. Look at your air conditioning unit, figure out what model it is, look it up.

FIX TWO: Replace the Filter

Yes, I’m saying the obvious things, but have you them? When you’re A/C is working it’s cycling air pulling in the warm air, cooling it, sending it back out.  Which means the airs running through the filter, picking up dirt and dust particles. Eventually the dirt will clog the filter completely and hinder the flow of air through the system.  This may happen before or after the label on the filter pack said it would (before). The moral here is, check your filters if your air unit isn’t working correctly. Even if your filter isn’t so dirty that it has developed a life of its own, maybe you don’t want it to get that dirty and you should change it before it gets there.

FIX THREE: Get on the Condensation Line!

Hah, this one wasn’t so obvious! And the subtitle didn’t make much sense, let’s move on. The condensation line is the small pipe that sticks out of your house by you’re A/C unit that drips. It’s getting rid of the moisture and condensation that your A/C collects from the air in the line of duty. This can get clogged. This can cause a variety of problems, but they will all lead to you’re A/C losing functionality, AND WE CAN’T HAVE THAT! So, you need to get that cleaned out. There are easy instructions on how to do that around the internet.

None of those worked… well, it’s time to call for help. We’ve done just about everything to get it working by ourselves. You can rest assured that your not calling and spending money on a nothing problem you could have fixed yourself.  Now, you need help. Don’t fiddle around with the insides of the actual unit, a HVAC technicians’ job is a lot of work and pretty specialized. At this point it’s time to leave it to the professionals.



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