AC Repair in Guthrie, OK
Air conditioners here run from May through September. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Logan County will get in touch.
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Five months of heat, plus what the storms leave behind
Your air conditioner runs from May through September here, and on a 92°F afternoon it does not get a break. The compressor runs long hours to keep the house at temperature, and that steady load is what wears it down over a summer. A unit that starts running longer to hit the same temperature is often one that has been carrying that load for a while.
Logan County has also seen 69 hail events and 82 damaging wind events over the past ten years, with hail up to 4.25 inches. That kind of storm bends the thin aluminum fins on the outdoor unit and can crack a fan blade or dent the cabinet. A coil with bent fins cannot move air the way it should, and you will notice the house cooling slower or the unit running longer to catch up.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 92°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 69 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 82 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $50 a year off cooling for a typical Logan County home.
Estimates for a typical Logan County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Oklahoma fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when a part like a capacitor or contactor has failed.
Replacement makes sense when the compressor has failed or the system uses R-22 refrigerant, which is no longer made.
Oklahoma requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
Oklahoma's Construction Industries Board issues this license to the contractor, not to each job. The same license covers this repair and whatever other work that contractor takes on, and it is the contractor's record with the board that stands behind it.
Fixing an air conditioner means working on the refrigerant side of the system, and federal law requires anyone who does that to hold EPA Section 608 certification, in Oklahoma and every other state. A contractor doing this repair is expected to hold both, the state license and the federal certification.
Source: Oklahoma State Legislature
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- Most of the time the refrigerant is low from a leak, or the coil is frozen over and blocking airflow. A dirty filter can cause the same freeze up, since it starves the coil of the airflow it needs to pull heat out of the air. At 92°F afternoons, a system already running long hours has less room to work around either problem before you notice warm air at the vents. Anyone who touches the refrigerant side to check the charge has to hold an EPA 608 certification, so this one is a call for a licensed contractor.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Water around your unit usually means the condensate drain line is clogged or the drain pan has cracked or rusted through. Algae and dust build up inside that line over a cooling season and block the path water is supposed to take outside. It can also mean the coil froze and is now thawing, which sends more water than the drain line can carry. A contractor can clear the line or replace the pan, and check whether a frozen coil is what caused it.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Check the thermostat batteries and the breaker first, since those are the two things that stop a system cold and are easy to rule out. If both check out, the capacitor may have failed, which is a common reason the outdoor unit won't start even though the thermostat is calling for cooling. With 82 damaging wind events recorded in this county over the past ten years, a tripped breaker or a power blip after a storm is also worth ruling out before assuming a part has failed. A licensed contractor can test the capacitor and the electrical components to find which one it is.