On a Hot Summer June Day in 2006 we receive a call from a new customer because her A/C was not cooling. We inspected the a/c, the diagnosis was Refrigerant Freon Pressure was Flat, ie totally out of Freon. We informed the customer there is a major leak somewhere in the refrigeration system and we recommend a Freon Leak Locate or you will just have to have us back out to fill it up again. The customer Declined on the Freon Leak Test. We filled up the a/c and the unit was cooling. About 6 hours later the customer calls back to say the unit is not cooling again. We returned the same afternoon and rechecked the same a/c. We informed the customer again the unit was almost out of Freon and we got approval to do a leak test. We located the leak buried in the vines and bushes. Upon first inspection it appeared to be a very bad splice.
Here you can see the refrigeration oil as the Freon Leak is Evident.
After we cut out the splice (or what we thought was a splice) we found this. This is either an attempted leak repair or a coupling to cover up a kink.
I am going to put this one in the Hack-Job Category.
We made a new splice, installed a liquid line filter drier, evacuated the system and got it cooling again.Refrigeration leakleak locateleak testLeak repairhackjobhackhack jobfreon leak
This is a job where the customer went for the lowest price. The Return Air ductwork is tied directly into the gas furnace. There should have been a return air plenum for all of the ductwork to attach to for even air distribution into the furnace. Looks like a support truss was in the way so the return air plenum got deleted!
