AC question

[tnmartin]

Our central AC went out this morning. Drain pipe is frozen up so it overflowed all over the hall carpet. I ran a 15' snake down it and the spouse followed with some drain cleaner. Seemed to help, some. Compressor is about 14 months old, a Rheem unit, which was installed after lightning took out the original. But the rest of the system is about 14 years old. We'll pul the covers off and re-clean the coils tomorrow. Money is VERY tight this month so if anyone knows any good (cheap) likely things to check I would be grateful.

[kjpro]

Frozen like ice??

If so, you need a tech to see why. This can cause other major expenses.

They need to check for proper air-flow & charge. If the unit is low on charge after they look at the air-flow. (clean coil, clean filter, blower running, blower clean, etc, etc....) They need to find out where it is going and fix the leak!

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[kjpro]

What the hell are you doing up???

Finger throbbing??

This is just to funny.......all the NG know it alls. (it's low on freon, that's it) LOL

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[kjpro]

That's right!! :-)

That's good.

paperwork...from

Yah, don't ya just love those 80-100 hrs a week when its 90 plus??

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[CBHvac]

Frozen? Drain line.. Not even possible. Never...not in your wildest imagination.

Clogged..yes.

Altho its not the best thing, Chlorox...any bleach..about a cupfull down it and wait about an hour, repeat, and then follow with about 2 gallons of water. Drain cleaner...about the one single worst thing to introduce to the line..

Seasonal service by a tech saves you money...

[Joseph Meehan]

He said the drain pipe froze, so we know there is something wrong with the description, most likely the fact that the drain pipe did not freeze and it was clogged.

[CBHvac]

Waddya mean what the hell am *I* doing up? What the hell are you doing up seeing if I am up???

:)

Nah...lucky so far man...no pain. I even went and ran 3 ducts tonight on a spec house... Raining like hell tonight and tomorrow..I wont even thnk about getting out of here till about 5 in the afternoon...catching up on some paperwork...from almost 4 weeks ago..