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So my ac is acting up
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:23 pm
It's just not holding temperature. I'll have it set on 71. It will stay there most of the day. I actually just checked it around noon. Just now it's reading 78 inside. I can understand the heat but that's ridiculous. It's even doing this at night so I know it's not just the weather. I immediately thought it was a freeon issue. Called the landlord about this the other day Had someone out here that day. Said everything was fine. But like I just said it's still fricking up. Just not consistently. Thoughts?
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Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:24 pm to tigersownall
Check the house filter?
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:24 pm to tigersownall
Call landlord again.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:24 pm to tigersownall
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:25 pm to tigersownall
Clean it. The exterior.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:25 pm to partsman103
quote:
Check the house filter?
thats what Im thinking
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:25 pm to BigEdLSU
Clean what? I change the filter on the reg.
This post was edited on 8/6/14 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:30 pm to tigersownall
Just brushed up on this myself.
Home a/c units are meant to have the temp. in your house 20 degrees colder than outside temp so keep that in mind.
Also fans can help circulate the air since heat rises.
A crack around your door, open blinds, etc can cause your place to be SO MUCH hotter than usual.
Chances are if your filter has been replaced, you don't see pooling water anywhere, and your vents on the ceiling are all open, it's just hot. Get a box fan. I did and it. is. awesome!
Also try closing the doors to rooms you don't use and closets, this helps concentrate the cool air in the places you spend most of your time. I even close my bedroom and bathroom door and I could tell a difference immediately.
Home a/c units are meant to have the temp. in your house 20 degrees colder than outside temp so keep that in mind.
Also fans can help circulate the air since heat rises.
A crack around your door, open blinds, etc can cause your place to be SO MUCH hotter than usual.
Chances are if your filter has been replaced, you don't see pooling water anywhere, and your vents on the ceiling are all open, it's just hot. Get a box fan. I did and it. is. awesome!
Also try closing the doors to rooms you don't use and closets, this helps concentrate the cool air in the places you spend most of your time. I even close my bedroom and bathroom door and I could tell a difference immediately.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:30 pm to tigersownall
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:32 pm to pwejr88
quote:
Home a/c units are meant to have the temp. in your house 20 degrees colder than outside temp so keep that in mind.
Also fans can help circulate the air since heat rises.
A crack around your door, open blinds, etc can cause your place to be SO MUCH hotter than usual.
Chances are if your filter has been replaced, you don't see pooling water anywhere, and your vents on the ceiling are all open, it's just hot. Get a box fan. I did and it. is. awesome!
Also try closing the doors to rooms you don't use and closets, this helps concentrate the cool air in the places you spend most of your time. I even close my bedroom and bathroom door and I could tell a difference immediately.
This.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:33 pm to wareagle2007
Happened to me a few months ago. The compressor had shorted - major repair. Your landlord may be out several thou. You could be without AC for a few days. Press the issue, imo.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:35 pm to tigersownall
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:38 pm to tigersownall
If the house isn't well insulated or sealed and/or has a lot of windows, it is probably just too hot and/or the unit is old/dirty and not operating as efficiently as it used to.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:43 pm to pwejr88
quote:
Home a/c units are meant to have the temp. in your house 20 degrees colder than outside temp so keep that in mind.
No. The temperature drop across the coil is nominally 20 degrees. The difference between indoor and outdoor temperature depends on other factors such as insulation, shade from trees, etc. I'd be pissed if my house couldn't maintain 75 or below even when it's 100 outside.
quote:
Also try closing the doors to rooms you don't use and closets, this helps concentrate the cool air in the places you spend most of your time. I even close my bedroom and bathroom door and I could tell a difference immediately.
Unless you have sufficient return with the doors closed, e.g. dedicated returns in each closed-off room or door undercuts sized in proportion to the supply, that's going to royally frick up the performance of your system. You'll pressurize those rooms, forcing cool air out of the building envelope, and the starved blower will bring in make-up air from every crack in the building envelope, meaning hot, humid attic and outside air which you now have to cool.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:47 pm to tigersownall
quote:Key word here. Call them again and tell them the air isn't working. It's their responsibility to ensure that it's working
landlord
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:48 pm to tigersownall
capacitor is prolly bad.. and could use a couple lbs of refrigerant.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:49 pm to Clint Torres
Could be the cap. Also, could be the fan motor. As a renter, though, this is not your concern. Hold the landlord to task.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:50 pm to Clint Torres
quote:Probably only if he has a leak.
could use a couple lbs of refrigerant.
quote:No.
capacitor is prolly bad
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:51 pm to pwejr88
quote:
Just brushed up on this myself.
Home a/c units are meant to have the temp. in your house 20 degrees colder than outside temp so keep that in mind.
Also fans can help circulate the air since heat rises.
A crack around your door, open blinds, etc can cause your place to be SO MUCH hotter than usual.
Chances are if your filter has been replaced, you don't see pooling water anywhere, and your vents on the ceiling are all open, it's just hot. Get a box fan. I did and it. is. awesome!
Also try closing the doors to rooms you don't use and closets, this helps concentrate the cool air in the places you spend most of your time. I even close my bedroom and bathroom door and I could tell a difference immediately.
All of this.
I just moved into a new apartment, and noticed that my AC was running constantly. The first few weeks there, it was 77-78 when I'd get home from work and was just steady running.
I got a floor fan, and the tree outside my front window happened to bloom, and it's so much better.
I keep it on 74 while gone, and the highest I've seen it is 75.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 2:54 pm to WDE24
Why don't you think it's the capacitor?
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