Is your A/C having a hard time keeping up?

kreeper611

Ours has been running almost all weekend.  It's insane.  And forget it if we start cooking dinner...it is a sauna.

Is that just because it is 100 degrees outside...or should we get it looked at?

I know we need new windows, and I know it is HOT out, but I don't remember it ever having to work this hard and still not keeping up.

04JaxBride

ours cycles on and off... but we have a smaller home, and i keep all the blinds drawn and stuff most of the time.

if there is a lot of going in and out of doors, or we have the oven on, i usually have to turn the fan on in the living room. 

kreeper611

04JaxBride:

ours cycles on and off... but we have a smaller home, and i keep all the blinds drawn and stuff most of the time.

if there is a lot of going in and out of doors, or we have the oven on, i usually have to turn the fan on in the living room. 

Yeah...I have a 1500 sq foot home, the blinds stay closed and all fans stay on.  That's what worries me.  I have it on 78/79 but it hasn't gotten below 83 since lunch time when we got home from the zoo. 

duchessII81

Is the air coming out of your vents cold?

We have our freon levels checked and the units cleaned every year.

kreeper611

duchessII81:

Is the air coming out of your vents cold?

We have our freon levels checked and the units cleaned every year.

I think so.  We also have 12' ceilings...it seems like I need a good a/c guy.  Any recs?

Kimmer123

It sounds like ours did a few weeks ago. It ended up we needed a new coil (?) but we knew that. Before when it was doing the same thing, it was low on freon.

This is the number of the guy kjr recommended. He's really nice and very reasonable. To recharge our unit it was around $150

WIlliam Brown

713-466-6100

FutureMrsJW

We used John Moore a last month.  They were quick and fixed the issue, but I thought they were really high.

Suzi-G-

Ours struggles if we turn the temp up while we're gone during the day, trying to drop the temp in the house again at 5pm is more than it can handle.  That said, there's nothing wrong w/ our unit.  I'm married to an AC guy. He has been over that thing 9000 times this month the verdict is A) our unit is getting old and is not as efficient as it could be though it's running perfectly and the shade from that giant tree we cut down really kept our house cool and C) it's been really freaking hot. 

04JaxBride

ours is about 1700... sounds like you need to have a checkup!

do you know how old the unit is?

Eboix518

ours has had a hard time keeping up, its not horrible but we got a window unit thing for our bedroom and it has made a huge difference

lilbitnmag

Sounds like it needs serviced.  Caesars Air Conditioning and Heating 713-268-1189.  Donny was great and even came out on a Sunday holiday weekend last year for us. Very reasonably priced no up-charges.

AmyDrinkie

Ours is set at 76 during the day and runs pretty much all day to keep it between 77-78, but they told us that would happen when it was replaced in Feb unless we got some better insulation in the attic.  It gets plenty cold at night when the sun goes down.