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A/C - Evaporator Coil Replacement vasuhg 07-12-2006
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Posted by on July 12, 2006, 10:58 pm
I have a home warranty. My A/C unit broke down last week. It was
turning on, but no cold air coming out of the vents. The first time,
the A/C technician came byb, refilled the freon and the it worked fine
just for a day and the problem resurfaced. The second technician came
by and told me the evaporator coil needed to be replaced - He went up
in the attic and I heard a beep. I assume he did some kind of a freon
leak test. I checked both the A/C units outside and the A/C unit
working fine had a pipe that was cold to touch when it was on and the
one that was broken did not have the same pipe cold to the touch when
it was on.

The home warranty company called me that certain items were not covered
and my part of the bill was $350. Is this amount look good and the
diagnosis the right one.
Should I be asking some additional questions here and make sure that
all that needs (anything extra) to be replaced will be replaced?

Thanks in advance for all who took time to reply to this.

Vasu


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Posted by STravis on July 12, 2006, 11:28 pm

vasuhg@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a home warranty. My A/C unit broke down last week. It was
> turning on, but no cold air coming out of the vents. The first time,
> the A/C technician came byb, refilled the freon and the it worked fine
> just for a day and the problem resurfaced. The second technician came
> by and told me the evaporator coil needed to be replaced - He went up
> in the attic and I heard a beep. I assume he did some kind of a freon
> leak test. I checked both the A/C units outside and the A/C unit
> working fine had a pipe that was cold to touch when it was on and the
> one that was broken did not have the same pipe cold to the touch when
> it was on.

So out of curiosity did either of these techs actually replace any
components on the system or did they just refill the freon? I couldn't
really tell from the above post if they actually changed anything or if
they just pumped freon into the system.

> The home warranty company called me that certain items were not covered
> and my part of the bill was $350. Is this amount look good and the
> diagnosis the right one.

Dunno...I would ask for a breakdown of what was done and what was
replaced. Then and only then can you determine what is/isn't part of
your home warrantee.

> Should I be asking some additional questions here and make sure that
> all that needs (anything extra) to be replaced will be replaced?

I would make sure that it works for more than a day.

>
> Thanks in advance for all who took time to reply to this.
>
> Vasu


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