Derek Cole explains that HVAC systems losing refrigerant yearly means you have a leak. Adding more refrigerant without fixing it is like giving blood transfusions to someone who's bleeding. Find and repair the leak instead.
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It is not normal for your unit to take refrigerant every single year. The unit is not using up a refrigerant, it uses refrigerant. I like to kind of reference this as your body. If your body starts spewing blood out of your arm, okay, we shouldn't be spewing blood. I shouldn't need more blood unless I'm losing blood, right? So I certainly need more refrigerant unless I'm losing refrigerant. So you need to see what the cause is. We go to quite a bit of customers who get one or two pounds, they say they get it every single year. But the problem is you shouldn't be leaking that refrigerant out. So obviously there is a leak somewhere that needs to be controlled, needs to be handled. It is just like your body is a closed system. Just like you shouldn't be spewing blood, all of a sudden, your unit shouldn't be leaking refrigerant. So no, that is not normal. And adding one or two pounds every year, you're not helping anything, you're just adding cost to it. And obviously if it's running low in a refrigerant, kind of like your body running low on blood, you're going to have a problem, right? So if you don't have enough blood, you have a problem. If your system doesn't have enough refrigerant, you will also have problems. So get the leak fixed. See what the cause is. Instead of putting band aids on it, which is adding more refrigerant, actually go to the calls and stop it.
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