Cooling & AC

My thermal camera is lit up like a heat map gone wrong — a bright orange band tracing the seam where Greg’s contractor tied his new 400-square-foot sunroom into the existing trunk line. The manometer reading confirms what the image already told me: static pressure is climbing, airflow to that room is barely a trickle, … Read more

“It’s running fine,” the homeowner kept insisting, arms crossed, watching me check her thermostat display in her Phoenix living room last summer. It read 74°F. Sure enough, the AC had been cycling all morning like clockwork. Yet the air in that room felt like a locker room after a workout — thick, clingy, wrong. She’d … Read more

Bare copper — that’s what greeted me on the last four feet of suction line before the wall penetration, on a mini split system that was barely 14 months old. The Draper homeowner who owned it had paid a handyman, not a licensed HVAC tech, to hang an 18,000 BTU ductless unit in his master … Read more

Six minutes on, twelve minutes off, then on again — that’s the pattern I pulled from the compressor’s runtime log on a scorching afternoon last August, sitting in a homeowner’s hallway while she waited for an explanation. Her brand-new 5-ton central air system, installed just three weeks prior and far from cheap, had her thoroughly … Read more