My air conditioner sagas continue. I know many of you are sick of hearing about it, but I am documenting this stuff in my "web log" so I have it on record and I can reference back to it when I need to.
On Sunday, the upstairs A/C stopped cooling the upstairs level again. It reached 79.5 degrees in my bedroom that night, thankfully we have a ceiling fan (thanks Mom & Dad).
The AC guys came back Monday morning. He told me that the last time he came (a week before) the Freon levels were perfect. But today, the levels were out of whack. He said that he wants to totally vacuum out everything from the unit. All Freon, air, dust, moisture, and so on. Then he wants to reset or recharge the compressor (I guess by leveling the new Freon levels).
So he hooked up a machine that looks like the image above to the unit. He let it run pretty much all day. Then at the end of the day, he came back with a crew of people to "recharge" the air conditioning unit. By that time, it was 84 degrees in the upstairs level. At about 6pm, they finished and said it was working. It was one degree less, now at 83. 30 minutes later, down to about 80 degrees, then at about 7pm down to 78. By 9pm or so, it was down to the temperature I set it at, I think 73 degrees. The upstairs level was cooled!
Does it mean that it is was fixed? I hope so, but I am not too confident.
Here is the history:
- Sunday, June 8th, first A/C outage. We had to sleep on the sofa downstairs for a few days, until the guy was able to come and fix it, temporarily, on Wednesday the 11th.
- Thursday, June 12th, it broke again. The guy came back Friday, the 13th, to level the Freon again. It now was working again and lasted for a while.
- Sunday, June 22nd, it broke again. The guy came back the next day to fix it. He leveled the Freon levels again.
- Sunday, June 29th, it broke again. The guy came yesterday, June 30th. This time he said he will vacuum it out, as described above.
Will it last or will it break? I am not confident and I am concern. I would hate to have guests sleep over and it break. That is the worse case scenario.
In terms of money... This should not cost me anything. The units are brand new and are covered.
Too funny, I am just about finishing up this post and the AC guy called me to check in. He said, he wanted to check in and see if it is cooling. I said yes. He said, he doesn't think he will need to come back, but since they did the Freon thing during hot weather, it may need to be leveled again. He said, call him if it is needed. And he apologized again. Wow, that was nice to hear.
So I am not confident in it working for the long haul, but I am confident in the company coming back when/if it breaks.