zfire Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Anyone here who knows an AC repair guy in my general area who is trustworthy?My house seems to be warming up this evening! :twisted: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkurfan Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 household.. Not really.. Your car, www.iatn.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdspeedbump Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 when you say "far" east side, we talking laporte,pasadena or baytown? or are we talking inside the beltway?most of my contacts right now would be way west (richmond, katy, etc), but my daughter might know if i knew where you were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zfire Posted September 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 La Porte...at Underwood area.Well crap--we have frozen something (Cranky says copper pipe probablly) inside the unit in the house this morning. Ideas? Cost to fix? I have to call someone, but sure hate to do it ona Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdspeedbump Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 dd doesn't answer her phone..typical. there's a little hardware store i used to buy a lot of plumbing /elec. stuff from on south main just south of downtown laporte. i think it's ca lled harvey's or something similar. he knows about every tradesman in laporte, and could steer you to someone who wouldn't have a lot of overhead and kill you with the hourly rate.best i got on short notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zfire Posted September 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Is it La Porte Hardware? That it the only one I know of down that way. I usually go west to Deer Park or Pasadena, since I am technically closer to those places.Reason I am so leary....everything we fix around here I feel I've been taken.I went through AC problems on 2 cars...one fixed...one a thousand later still no air. Last year they said eventually I will have to replace furnace and ACand I said ok, give me an estimate. One guy said 4k for just the furnace and another 3 for the AC. Another guy said 4600 for the whole mess...ya see?Sigh.............know we need to replace all this stuff.....................but we do have bills.As to the house... I just read that I could have a dirty evaperator coil, or be low on freon , or a duct may be collapsed, etc. Ok a friend knows a guy, and was going to contact him today and see if he can come by. But if your DD calls you back, I still would like the info, cause the day is young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracrap Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 to get u by on borrowed time ...if u have a leak, find someone to put in a leak sealant called" one shot"..it costs a hundred bucks for the can , but its liquid gold for stopping leaks in a condensor or evaporator coil..i use it on service calls for my customers..a condensor or evaporator coil leak cannot be repaired like a car's radiator, it must be replaced if the sealant doesnt work..."frozen somethin"..i take it to mean you see ice on a coil?if so , it means theres a low charge, dirty coil, low blower speed or low ambient temperature....all will result in ice buildup on a coil....if thats not what you meant, then nevermind:wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zfire Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Probably a dirty inside coil. And more than likely it could use a bit of freon too. Can't they usually?? The outside has been totally cleaned.I found a guy to come over late this afternoon.Last year had a tech out to clean and service and all that stuff, and he took that little blue mesh looking filter out of the unit. Told me it reduced air flow.In hindsight, I think my problem may be coming from that not being there and letting dirt through. So...dirty coils. I have it running now. It's cooling nicely and not frozen at the moment. One shot..got it. I figure What do you mean by ambient temperature? Do I have to go look this up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Ambient temperature is the "normal" temperature.Reduced airflow over the coils will freeze the evaporator up. If there is no filter on the unit, I bet, that is the problem. The humidity compounds the problem.Any airflow into the system should flow through a filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracrap Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 ambient temperature refers to your outdoor air temperature at the time the unit is running...you dont ever run the system without filters ...besides causing a dirty indoor coil, it can cause flooding to the compressor by not enough heat being transferred from the return air to the evaporator coil...which means the liquid refrigerant can not boil into its superheated vapor...it stays in its liquid state which goes back to the compressor and floods it out...bottom line.....dont ever ever run without filtersif a clean filter reduces airflow that much then there are other issues going on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracrap Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 if its low on r22 and needs to be topped off...then theres a leak, hence the need for a sealant...a.c. systems are closed systems , they should never need to be charged unless there is a leak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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