Old ductwork makes cooling system efficient

Old ductwork makes cooling system efficient

When it turned on my cooling system for the first time this Springtime, I noticed that I had a problem.

  • Although the equipment was on almost all of the time, the dwelling wasn’t getting very cool.

I looked up what might be the issue online and found everything from it just needing more liquid in the compressor lines to possibly needing a whole new unit, but of course, I jumped to the worst case scenario and called an HVAC company and had them send out a worker immediately. I followed the technical around as he checked everything. Then he went under the dwelling while I waited outside. When he crawled out from under the dwelling he informed me that my ventilation ducts were leaking badly. I hadn’t found that occasion when I had researched the issue myself so he explained it to me. Apparently there are a series of big pipes that channel the cool air from the cooling system to the my floor vents. These pipes are linked with screws, tape, and rubber. As the dwelling shifts and settles and ages, these pipes can become separated. The specialist said he just had to go back under and seal up the ductwork and maybe substitute some of it. He said that this problem has very been there for years and I just noticed it now. But that once the ducts were sealed up, I would notice a sizable change in the production of my cooling system. He wasn’t lying, once he was done, it felt like I had a brand new system.
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