Sandy Springs AC Repair

Every AC repair call we take is really two questions wearing one coat: what broke, and is this unit worth fixing at all? Sandy Springs HVAC answers the first with a meter and gauges and the second with arithmetic you can follow. On the diagnostic side, the usual culprits are not mysterious. A run capacitor weakens in the summer heat until the compressor can no longer start. Pitted contacts inside the contactor stop carrying current to the condenser. The outdoor fan motor locks up and the whole unit overheats and shuts down. A pinhole leak lets refrigerant escape until the indoor coil grows a jacket of ice. Algae fills the condensate line, the float switch cuts power, and sometimes water finds the ceiling before anybody notices. Occasionally the trouble is upstream, in thermostat wiring or a circuit board that fails to pass the cooling call along. A couple of minutes of homeowner detective work can rule out the simple stuff first: is the thermostat really in cooling mode with a target below the current reading, has a breaker tripped, is the filter gray and matted, is there water standing in the pan under the indoor unit? Frost on the refrigerant piping means shutting the system down until it melts, because running a frozen coil puts the compressor at risk. Then ring us at (770) 954-8245. Once the cause is confirmed, you hear the repair figure, and on equipment with some years behind it you also see how that figure compares with what a replacement would cost, so the decision is made on numbers rather than nerves. Upstairs units baking in an attic through a sticky Georgia July are usually the first to show these failures, and a weak part caught early tends to spare a costlier one.