Repair · Seminole, FL
Repairs
Most failures are one part: a capacitor, a contactor, a motor, a leak. What matters is whether that part is the fault or the symptom, because a capacitor giving up twice in one summer is telling you about something behind it.
How a fault gets diagnosed
- 01Find the fault before pricing it
The readings come first, the price after them.
- 02Say what the part was doing
A dead capacitor and one killed by a struggling compressor are the same part and two different jobs.
- 03Price the part and the visit
Priced before any work starts, so the decision is yours.
- 04Fix it
Most repairs finish on the same visit; an ordered part gets a date.
- 05Say what it bought you
On a tired system you hear what the repair buys and what a replacement would cost.
Questions about repairs
Is it worth repairing an old system?
Sometimes. The test is the repair against what is left of the system's life, and nobody can run that test without both numbers in front of them.
Why does my capacitor keep failing?
Heat kills them, and so does a compressor that is hard to start. If it has gone twice, the capacitor is the symptom rather than the illness.
Can you top up the refrigerant?
A sealed system does not consume refrigerant. If it is low then it is leaking, and topping it up without finding the leak is buying gas for the attic.
The size first. The price after it.
Forty minutes in the house, measured room by room, and the size on paper before anyone talks about equipment.