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Houses across Macon and Bibb County
No cooling, cold but clammy, a room that never keeps up, or a system that has come to the end of it. Macon, Warner Robins, Byron and the towns between.
What we find, and how often
The recurring items in this county’s housing stock, with an honest note on how common each one is.
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Oversized equipmentVery common
Carried forward every time a system is replaced like for like. It cools quickly, shuts off, and leaves the moisture behind — which is the clammy house in one sentence.
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Blocked or slow condensate drainsVery common
The commonest cause of ceiling damage we see. The float switch is the whole defence, it is inexpensive, and it is sometimes simply missing.
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Duct leakage into a hot atticVery common
Air you have paid to cool, lost before it arrives — and humid attic air pulled into the return to replace it.
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Return air too small for the systemCommon
The usual reason a replacement disappoints. A bigger blower pulling through the same restricted return makes noise, not airflow.
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Blower speed never set for the houseCommon
Left at whatever the equipment shipped with. It affects both comfort and how much moisture the system removes, and correcting it costs nothing.
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Rooms added without rebalancingCommon
A sun room or converted garage teed off the nearest trunk, which takes air away from wherever it came from. Two unhappy rooms instead of one.
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Refrigerant genuinely lowSometimes
And when it is, the system has a leak. Topping it up without finding the leak is not a repair, and for some refrigerants it is not lawful either.
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A failed compressorRarely first
It gets blamed far more often than it fails. Most of what looks like a dead system is upstream of it.
Before we quote a replacement
- Load calculationRoom by room
- Static pressureMeasured
- Duct inspectionAttic and crawl
- Return sizingChecked
- Condensate routeNamed in scope
- PermitFiled by us
- Model numbers in the quoteAlways
- Commissioning numbersHanded over
If that list produces a smaller system than the one coming out, that is the answer, and we would rather have the conversation before the install than after it.
Three things worth doing yourself
None of them need us, and we would rather tell you than charge for them.
- Change the filter on an interval you will keepFree
Whatever you will actually stick to beats a better interval you will forget. Write the size on the cabinet.
- Look at the condensate line now and thenFree
A pipe that is slowing is a small job. A pipe that has stopped, with no working float switch, is a ceiling.
- Buy a hygrometerAlmost free
A week of readings tells us more before we arrive than an hour of looking would.