Derek Cole and an HVAC technician explain why your air conditioner shouldn't need refrigerant added every year. Refrigerant leaks are like losing blood: find and fix them instead of repeatedly topping up the system.
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Foreign. I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. Let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings. And share this episode with three of your friends because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening. And let's begin.
It is not normal for your unit to take refrigerant every single year. The unit is not using up a refrigerant, it uses a 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. 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. It 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 to two pound 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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