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Don’t Scrape Off That Frost on Your Air Conditioner!

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Don’t Scrape Off That Frost on Your Air Conditioner!

Our air conditioners are going to be seeing a lot of use in the next few months here in Springfield, PA as temperatures continue to climb ever higher. You may have noticed an unusual phenomenon in your system: frost or ice forming on the coils. Most people either dismiss it — after all, isn’t your air conditioner supposed to be cold? — or try to scrape it ff themselves. Both can be costly mistakes. Frost forming on your coils is the sign of a serious problem, one that you need a trained repair technician to properly address.

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What Causes It

The evaporator coils are where the system’s refrigerant shifts from liquid to gaseous form, pulling heat from the nearby air in the process. That cool air can then be redistributed through your home via the ducts. Ice forming on the coils mean that that process has been thrown off. The most common culprit is a leak in the refrigerant lines: air conditioners depend on a specific amount of refrigerant to do their job, and if it drops, then ice is the result. Frost can also form if the coils themselves are dirty, if clogs are backing the cool air up into the system, or if the fan motor is experiencing problems.

Why It’s a Problem

The frost may seem like a natural byproduct of an air conditioner’s function, but it actually represents lost cooling potential: energy that should be going into your home, but which remains stuck in the system. That means your AC needs to work harder and spend more energy to do its job. It gets worse. The frost will insulated the air your system wants to cool, making it even tougher… and creating a cascading effect whereby the ice only gets worse and worse. Eventually, it will result in a very expensive breakdown.

Never scrape off the frost on your coils. Instead, call WM Henderson Inc. to fix the problem the right way!

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