Keep your cool, Fairborn
We repair and replace air conditioners, ductless systems included in Fairborn, Ohio. Repairs, replacements and seasonal tune-ups, all priced before we start. Most calls get handled the same day, and someone answers the emergency line at any hour.
AC repair, replacement, and ductless systems for humid Ohio summers — fixed right the first time, at a price you approve before we start.
Every way a Fairborn home stays cool.
My air handler is in the attic. Does that change anything?
It changes what a small problem costs you. An attic unit sits above finished ceilings, so a blocked condensate drain that would be a wet floor in a basement becomes a ceiling repair instead. Attics also run far hotter than the rest of the house, so duct leakage up there loses cooled air into the worst possible place and the insulation on those ducts matters more than it would elsewhere. Worth confirming there is a secondary drain pan with its own float switch under the unit, because that is the thing standing between a clog and your ceiling.
The air smells musty when the AC starts.
That smell is biological growth on a coil that stays wet, and it is common in systems that short cycle or run with the fan permanently on. It is worth taking seriously rather than masking, because the air carrying it is the air the whole house breathes. The fixes go in order of cost: clear and treat the condensate drain, clean the coil properly rather than spraying it, correct whatever is keeping the coil wet, and only then look at UV or filtration. Starting at the last step is how people spend money and still smell it.
There is water on the floor near the indoor unit.
Almost always the condensate drain. Cooling pulls moisture out of the air and that water has to go somewhere, usually down a small PVC line to a floor drain or a pump. Algae builds up in that line over a season and blocks it, the pan overflows, and you find it as a wet patch or a ceiling stain if the unit is upstairs. Many systems have a float switch that shuts the cooling off rather than let the pan overflow, so an air conditioner that has stopped for no obvious reason in humid weather is worth checking there first.
My system uses R-22. Is it worth recharging?
Usually not. R-22 has not been produced or imported in the United States since 2020, so what is left is reclaimed stock at a price that climbs every season. More to the point, refrigerant is not consumed. A system that is low has a leak, and paying for a recharge without finding the leak buys you the same conversation next summer at a higher price. On an R-22 system at fifteen-plus years, that money is usually better put against the replacement you are going to make anyway.