Refrigerant

It is not normal for your unit to take refrigerant every single year. The unit is not using up refrigerant. It uses refrigerant. 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 shouldn't need more refrigerant unless I'm losing refrigerant. If you're leaking refrigerant and you need refrigerant in your system, it's because you're having a leak and you need to fix the leak so you stop spending the money every single year on 1 or 2 pounds of R-22 or R-410A, whatever the refrigerant is. That way You have a sealed system. It should not be leaking out. Again, you don't need to recharge that unit every single year. It uses refrigerant, but it doesn't use up the refrigerant and need more. Obviously, if it's running low on 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, uh, 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 cause and stop it.