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Originally Posted by Scbang
My TRANE AC is getting weaker after 18 years of faithful service. I am sure it's just a tiny leak of freon over 18 years because it is still working but weak. How much cost should I expect when JC's tech comes out and refill my freon. Mine is small 2 bedroom courtyard villa. I don't know the tonage of the AC.
Cheers!
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My A/C quit blowing cold air just recently. Just bought the house and had been in it about a month before it quit cooling. I thought possibly it may be the same issue I had at my previous house -- a small hole had burned through one of the copper tubings in the outside condenser -- and, that's what it turned out to be. I used Munn's and he did a lot of checking on the inside unit first and then we went outside and he removed the condenser surround. It was pretty obvious where the leak was as it's a very tiny hole in the copper that's now a dark color. He brazed (I call it soldering) the hole, refilled my system which had nothing left and then had to get the air out of the system and installed some blue colored filter thing at the A/C unit in the garage (that air out and blue filter thing was the most expensive at $300+). My total bill came to $850 or so and my A/C is now working fine. It's a Trane and was apparently installed by Munn's in 2008. A side note regarding my previous house, the repaired copper tubing held fine for the remaining 3 years I was still at that house and no issues with it cooling. Those copper tubing on the outside condensers aren't covered with anything and if they touch another part they will get hot in that spot and burn a hole (my previous A/C guy at the other house told me that's the reason they burn the holes and it makes sense when you took at it -- my previous guy put some rubber pieces he had around the tubes so they wouldn't touch anything -- here we just kindof bent them away from each other as didn't have any insulation materials). Hope this info helps.