Go ahead and call it's, not going to be any swet unless the local
jurisdiction requires a manual-J be done on equipment replacements and you
had better hope the addition was done legally or your going to open a whole
can of worms for yourself.

He didn't have a Heatpump replaced in January because he had some extra
money just burning a hole in his pocket. He did it because his ODU died,
kaput. He needed it done right away and he got it right a way, period. It's
all well and good with the woulda/shoulda/could of's eight months down the
road, but the bottom line is he got what he paid for.
If your going to spout off at least try to read between the lines first.

"Art" wrote in message
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I would ruin his day by calling the license board and filing a complaint.
In any case a larger air handler may squeeze more cooling out of the 2.5
ton
unit. Also if duct work is accessable, some is designed like a pretzel
and
if you can have a guy look it over and remove excess ducting if it exists
that will help too and you will save money.


"Ron" wrote in message
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Here's the deal. My house is 1500 sq ft (heated) In Jan of this yr I had
the outside unit of my heatpump replaced. They replaced it with a 2 1/2
ton unit. (I just discovered this 3 days ago) Well from what I've been
told in this group (and after several phone calls to different AC
companies) it should have been a 3 ton unit.

The unit had been working fine until a month ago when my girlfriend
moved in and we opened up a 225 sq ft rm that wasn't being used, NOW the
unit will not cool the house.

I looked at my paper work and it says that the unit was "sized" by sq
ft. I called the company yesterday and told them what was going on and
i was told that they replaced the unit with the same size unit that was
there.

Now that's pretty stupid since the house was built in '84 with a 2 1/2
ton unit and has since had a 225 sq ft room added on.

The guy tells me that it wouldn't matter if he had installed a 3 ton
unit because the air handler is only a 2 1/2 ton unit and it wouldn't
matter as far as cooling is concerned.

My reasoning is that THEY should have installed a 3 ton unit just
because of the sq ft of the house, regardless of what size the old unit
was....I even told the installer that my next step was to get a new air
handler because it was about to go. Wh

Now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and don't know what to do,
so here's my question. If I end up having to keep the 2 1/2 ton outside
unit, can I install a 3 ton air handler and will it keep a 1500 sq ft
house cool?

My only other option would be to install a window unit in the addition
and I really don't want to do that.

Thoughts-suggestions?