On Apr 6, 2:30*pm, Evan wrote:
On Apr 6, 8:36*am, wrote:





On Apr 6, 8:02*am, jamesgangnc wrote:

On Apr 6, 2:51*am, Evan wrote:

On Apr 5, 10:37*pm, brassplyer wrote:

On Apr 5, 10:22*pm, The King wrote:

The only servicing a residential a/c ever needs is a clean filter a
few times a year and hose out the condenser after the cotton woods
quit making cotton. *That's been my sure fire winner for over 20yrs
with mine. *

Right, exactly what I've been doing. And a couple of times I've had to
blow out the drainage line when it got clogged with gunk.

Or you can pay some Stormy Mormmy type simpleton to come
out and hook up their nasty gauge set every year, contaminate the
system and let a little gas out when they disconnect and charge you
out the ass for "the service".

Which is exactly what I've heard and why I've avoided having anyone
"service" it. I've gone under the assumption that since once fired up
it cooled the house off quickly and could easily get it colder than I
needed, *things were working as they should.

Right, except if someone stole the refrigerant out of your outside
heat pump unit... *Or something finally corroded through after
22 years of being outside in the elements... *Or maybe you don't
cover your outside heat pump unit during the winter and ice
built up inside of it and snapped something letting the refrigerant
gas escape...

In every trade there are good companies and bad... *Don't lump them
all in with the bad... *It is obvious that you don't have a clue what
to
look for when you "hose down your condenser" and wouldn't know
how to find a refrigerant leak if that is what your problem is...

Stop being cheap and hire someone to come out and give your
AC unit an look to see what is wrong with it...

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In which case it would be "BROKEN" and need fixing. *I agree with the
other posters, servicing is just a money making operation.

The OP probably needs someone to take a look at but not because it
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And if AC units need professional servicing, including checking the
refrigerant level, why is it that refrigerators, which are very
similar refrigerant systems, don't? * *All you need to do is change
the filters and clean out any leaves from the compressor unit. *And if
servicing is so critical, how is it that the OPs lasted 22 years,
which is the full life, without it? * *You can't compare this to car
maintenance. * If you didn't change or check the oil in your car, it
surely wouldn't last 22 years.

Why ??

Because a refrigerator only keeps a small very well insulated space
cold... *Your home AC unit (which is only about 3x the size if you
look at the internal components compared to a refrigerator) is working
MUCH harder to cool off an exponentially larger volume of space in
comparison to the interior volume of your refrigerator...

As to your other ponderings about why his AC unit lasted so long
without requiring repair, who knows, could be he hardly ever uses
it like the OP claimed in previous posts, could have been luck...
A car could conceivably go 22 years without an oil change if you
drove it less than 4,000 total miles during that time... *I don't know
of anyone who owns a car that they "hardly ever drive" over more
than 20 years of owning it, do you ???

And no, you don't know enough about AC units if all you think
you need to do is change the filter in the duct work and clear
out the leaves from the outside heat pump... * You really should
be inspecting the coils inside your duct work and CLEANING
those of dust and debris annually so that the air passing through
the coil in the duct can be more efficiently cooled... *You should
also clean the coils inside the heat pump annually as well as
dirt, bugs and any number of things can get inside the fins and
restrict airflow... *When you shut off your AC system each year
you should be covering the heat pump unit outside to PREVENT
debris like leaves from entering it and to protect it from ice
getting inside the unit during the winter...

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Covre the heat pump outside during the winter? Doesn't really heat
very well when you do that does it?