Air Conditioning - Please Help Compressor prob I think...
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mjanks
06-09-08, 08:07 AM
I know nothing about AC's so I really need some advice.
Our upstairs unit stopped blowing out cold air and was dripping water like crazy in the closet. We had a repair guy come and he said it froze up, there was a block of ice. He then added freon and looked at our compressor and said there was a sticker on it that said the person who lived here before put stop leak in the unit. He said we needed to change the compressor ($1700) and a new condensor($2400).
My question is if we change the compressor will it leak since I am assuming there was a leak somewhere if there is stop leak. Should we spend the extra money and change the whole thing? The unit upstairs is fairly new. He also wrote on the quote compressor has bad valves...Can we just change the valves? He also has written on the estimate $265 to charge unit, what does that mean?
Sorry for the long post but I really would appreciate any help on this issue!! Thanks
Kim
Our upstairs unit stopped blowing out cold air and was dripping water like crazy in the closet. We had a repair guy come and he said it froze up, there was a block of ice. He then added freon and looked at our compressor and said there was a sticker on it that said the person who lived here before put stop leak in the unit. He said we needed to change the compressor ($1700) and a new condensor($2400).
My question is if we change the compressor will it leak since I am assuming there was a leak somewhere if there is stop leak. Should we spend the extra money and change the whole thing? The unit upstairs is fairly new. He also wrote on the quote compressor has bad valves...Can we just change the valves? He also has written on the estimate $265 to charge unit, what does that mean?
Sorry for the long post but I really would appreciate any help on this issue!! Thanks
Kim
Saturn
06-09-08, 12:35 PM
You will have a hard time finding anyone to service a unit that has had the sealer installed in it. If a tech tries to recover the refrigerant he can ruin his recovery machine. There are special filters being marketed that are supposed to filter out the sealer but nobody wants to be the guinea pig with a 1500 dollar recovery machine on the line, plus a recovery tank full of possibly tainted refrigerant. You will want to get min 3 prices for replacement, do your due diligence, heck you might even find someone that will find the leak and repair it in your pricing search.
mjanks
06-10-08, 06:56 AM
Thanks... We did have someone else come out and I was hoping he would tell me if it was a bad compressor but they only give free estimates if you are changing it out, he wanted $80 to tell me what was wrong. I already paid the first guy over $100 to tell me it was the compressor so I'm just going with that. This guy was a few hundred cheaper and he is going to put in a Trane 14i. Said we'd have to change the coil to go any higher...(?) He's been in business for over 25 yrs and seems to be reputable. Hopefully this is what's wrong or we just blew over $2000 for nothing...
The guy who lived here before us was an air conditioning guy, owned his own company and it looks like he just put this and that together to make his own thing... Guess I'll see what happens!
The guy who lived here before us was an air conditioning guy, owned his own company and it looks like he just put this and that together to make his own thing... Guess I'll see what happens!