AC Repair in Warner Robins, GA
Air conditioners here run from May through September. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Houston County will get in touch.
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Five months of 91 degree afternoons wear on your AC
From May through September your air conditioner runs almost every day, and on afternoons near 91°F it runs long stretches at a time. That kind of runtime puts real hours on the compressor and the fan motor, and those are the parts most likely to give out when the system never gets a break.
Houston County has also logged 115 damaging wind events and 10 hail events over the last ten years, with hail up to 1.75 inches. Hail that size can bend the thin fins on your outdoor unit's coil, and wind can drive debris into it. Bent fins and a dirty coil make the system work harder to cool the same air, and that shows up as warm air inside or an outdoor unit that runs constantly and still can't keep up.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 91°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 10 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 115 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $60 a year off cooling for a typical Houston County home.
Estimates for a typical Houston 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 is the body that tests and licenses HVAC contractors in Georgia. The license belongs to the contractor, not to any single job, so it stays with them from one repair to the next rather than being issued fresh each time.
For a repair on an air conditioner, that state license is what stands behind the person doing the work. If the job involves opening the refrigerant side of the system, which most air conditioner repairs do, the technician also has to hold EPA Section 608 certification, a federal requirement that applies in every state regardless of local licensing.
Source: Georgia Secretary of State
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- The most common cause is a dirty air filter choking off airflow, so start there before anything else. A filter clogged with dust makes the coil work harder and it can ice over, which cuts cooling to nothing. Low refrigerant from a leak is another common reason, and that one needs a licensed contractor to find the leak and recharge the system properly. With summer afternoons here running around 91°F, a system fighting a dirty filter or low refrigerant has to work hard just to keep up.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Water around your indoor unit almost always means the condensate drain line is clogged. Algae and dust build up inside that line over a cooling season and block the path water normally takes to drain outside. When it backs up, it can overflow the drain pan and show up as a puddle near your unit. A frozen coil that then thaws will cause the same kind of water, so a contractor checking this will look at both the drain line and the coil.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Check your thermostat batteries and your breaker panel first, since those two things cause a lot of no-start calls. A tripped breaker or a thermostat with dead batteries will leave your AC completely silent even though nothing is actually broken. If both of those check out, the problem is likely something inside the unit, like a failed capacitor or a bad contactor, and that calls for a licensed contractor. Georgia requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license, so ask to see it before any work starts.