AC Repair in Dallas, GA
Air conditioners here run from May through September. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Paulding County will get in touch.
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Five months of heat, and storms that hit the outdoor unit
Your air conditioner runs from May through September here, with summer afternoons averaging 88°F. That is five straight months of the compressor and fan working through the hottest part of the day. A unit that runs that long each summer wears faster than one that only cycles on for a few weeks a year.
Paulding County has also logged 125 damaging wind events and 7 hail events over the past ten years, with hail as large as 1.75 inches. Wind can bend the fins on your outdoor unit or throw debris into it, and hail that size can dent the cabinet or damage the fan blade. If your air conditioner started acting up right after a storm, that is often why.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 88°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 7 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 125 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $50 a year off cooling for a typical Paulding County home.
Estimates for a typical Paulding County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Georgia fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when a part like a capacitor or contactor has failed.
Replacement makes sense when the compressor has failed or the system uses R-22 refrigerant, which is no longer made.
Georgia requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The State Construction Industry Licensing Board tests and records the contractor, not the individual job. So the license tells you the company itself has met the state's standard, and that standard follows the business to every home it works in, including yours in Paulding County.
For an air conditioner repair, the refrigerant side is where a second layer applies. Any technician who opens that side of your system, to check a charge or fix a leak, has to hold EPA Section 608 certification. That requirement comes from federal law and applies the same way in every state, on top of whatever Georgia's board covers.
Source: Georgia Secretary of State
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- The most common reason is a dirty air filter choking off airflow across the coil. When air can't move through it, the coil gets too cold and ices up, and once that happens the system blows warm air even though it's running fine otherwise. Low refrigerant from a leak causes the same thing. A contractor can check the filter, look at the coil, and test refrigerant levels to find which one it is.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Most of the time it's the condensate drain line, the tube that carries water away from the indoor coil. Algae and dirt build up inside it over time and eventually block it, so the water backs up and spills out of the drain pan instead. A frozen coil can also cause this. As it thaws, more water runs off than the pan and drain are built to handle at once, and it overflows.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Check the thermostat first, since a dead battery or a setting knocked off cool will stop the system before it ever starts. If the thermostat looks right, the next place to check is the breaker, since a tripped one cuts power to the whole unit. Some systems also have a float switch that shuts the AC off on purpose when the condensate pan fills with water, so if the drain is clogged, that's often why nothing happens when you turn it on.