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Houses across Bibb County
No cooling, a room that never keeps up, a system at the end of its life, or a house that is cold and still uncomfortable. Macon, Warner Robins, Gray and Forsyth.
The call-outs, in order of how often they happen
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It has stopped
Before you call, two things are worth thirty seconds, and between them they account for a real share of summer call-outs.
- The breaker
Both of them — the indoor unit and the outdoor unit are usually on separate circuits.
- The condensate float switch
A tripped float switch is the system doing exactly what it was fitted to do, and from inside the house it looks identical to a breakdown.
- Then call
If both are fine, something has actually failed and it is worth a visit rather than more poking.
- The breaker
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It runs but the house is not right
The larger category, and the one that gets replaced unnecessarily.
- Cold but clammy
Nearly always an oversized system that satisfies the thermostat before it has run long enough to take moisture out.
- One room that never keeps up
Usually a branch added later, a crushed run, or a return far too small. Room-by-room airflow turns the argument into a number.
- Runs constantly
Often air lost into the attic before it arrives, so the thermostat is never satisfied.
- Noisy
Velocity through an undersized return, or a sharp transition close to the plant.
- Cold but clammy
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Water where it should not be
In this climate an indoor coil produces a great deal of it, and all of it is supposed to leave through a pipe.
- Blocked drain lines
The commonest cause of ceiling damage we attend, by a distance.
- A missing or failed float switch
Inexpensive, and the only thing standing between a blocked drain and a ceiling.
- Sweating ductwork
Usually duct in a hot attic with damaged or missing insulation, which is a repair rather than a mystery.
- Blocked drain lines
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It is time to replace it
What happens before we quote, and in this order.
- Load calculation
Room by room, from your house. Not from the badge on the old unit.
- Static pressure and duct inspection
Because the ducts decide whether you are happy in two summers, and the equipment does not.
- Condensate route named in the scope
Drain, trap, slope and float switch. Included, not assumed.
- Permit filed, model numbers given
With the Macon-Bibb office covering your address, and with model numbers so the quotation can be compared with anybody else’s.
- Load calculation
Attic ductwork is the local problem
Most houses here have their ductwork in an attic that reaches well over a hundred degrees in July. Every foot of leakage there costs twice: once for the conditioned air that escapes, and once for the hot humid attic air that gets pulled in to replace it.
The faults are consistent and visible: a flexible branch pinched against a truss, a run sagging between straps, an outer jacket torn open at a joint, insulation slumped away from the inner liner. None of it is exotic and all of it is repairable.
We measure before and after, so the work has a number attached to it rather than a promise.
Three things worth doing yourself
None of them need us, and telling you costs us call-outs.
Change the filter on an interval you will keep
Whatever you will actually stick to beats a better interval you will forget. Write the size on the cabinet so it is a two-minute job next time.
Look at the condensate line now and then
A pipe that is slowing is a small job. A pipe that has stopped, with no working float switch, is a ceiling.
Keep the outdoor unit clear
A foot or two of clear air on every side. Hedges grown in close and anything stacked against it reduce what the coil can reject.