Response from Carolina Cool LLC
We haven’t been to this customer’s house since April of 2013. At that time, we performed this new customer’s first tune up on April 8th. This is the first time we were at his home. We performed a thorough tune up, as we do, and the tech wrote the following on his paperwork, (which the customer signs), upon completion: Performed tune up, left spare filter. Found indoor TXV sensing bulb outside of air handler not attached. Has mercury t-stat, no secondary drain line, and ductwork undersized and split with insulation coming off in some areas. Blower motor running high amps, armaflex on line set is deteriorated. Recommendations: Replace duct system, install new digital t-stat and reinsulate sensing bulb & line set. Customer wants quote to repair or replace. Lloyd working on options. Then, the customer wasn’t happy with what he was told, so we did a repeat inspection for him, with a different technician, just to verify the results. That tech wrote: Shocked the TXV with ice water it did lower the suction pressure by 10-12 PSIG, some of the factory wiring at the condenser has been changed and or disconnected, ductwork undersized and split in some areas. Recommendations: Same recommendations as last tech had. Replace duct system, install new digital t-stat and reinsulate sensing bulb & line set. This customer was given options to fix or replace. This system is a 1998 model. That means at the time, this system is 15 years old. And yes, per guidelines established by our local utility, and supported by our government, anything older than ten years should be considered for replacement. All of the recommendations we made didn’t need to be done, but certainly would have helped the equipment run more comfortably, and definitely more efficient. Carolina Cool is an options based company. We are more than willing to repair anything on a system that keeps it running, as we are a service company first. But, we will always offer upgrades that we see would be beneficial to our customer. If he perceived that we were “pushing” replacement, for that we apologize. However, we were simply doing what is standard for our industry and what is recommended by our utilities.