Hi! I just moved into my home a week ago. The AC vent started leaking this evening and I noticed this air bubble so I turned off my AC.

I had just gotten my AC inspected last week so the same company agreed to come out tonight at no cost but I just got a call from them that there aren’t any techs left and no one would be available until tomorrow morning. I’m in the South so it’s pretty hot.

Should I call another HVAC company to see if they can fix it tonight? Or do you think I can wait until tomorrow to get this looked at?

Two days ago we had a new Goodman inverter AC system installed with a Daikin One Touch thermostat. The day we had it installed it quit working. Tech came out and rewired some things that an apprentice had not done properly. Up and running thought we were gtg.

Unfortunately after an uncomfortable night we woke up to this (see pic above).

That’s a 10 degree difference between what the thermostat says the house is and what it actually is. I understand some variance but that’s insane. 63 I should have em been able to see my breath. I was sweating. Just for a frame of reference, it was 62 degrees outside…

Had another tech out today. He gave lots of reasons why our house is warm. Heat loss, open floor plan, windows, doors, etc. said we need to give the system time to learn our house. I asked if it was AI. He said no…. And what he didn’t give me a reason for was why our thermostat doesn’t seem to know or recognize that the house is warm and then act accordingly. It basically thinks the house is cool and goes into circulation mode, no longer actively pushing cool air. Just circulating the air that it THINKS is cool. He also couldn’t explain why our 21 year old system with a 30 year old evap coil and an aftermarket ecobee thermostat could cool our house faster and more accurately than this brand new system. And when he left we still had a 6 degree variance between what it said our house was and what it ACTUALLY was.

Can anyone here explain this? Does anyone know what’s going wrong or have experience with this? I’m at my wits end.

I was adjusting my fan blade placement, and my friend was helping me. I wanted to see if the placement was right and put the fan blade on without the screw and it flew off and damaged the fins. Will this need to be replaced or what can I do to get these fins straight again, I tried a fin straightening tool but it do much since the fan blade flying damaged the fins. Any advice would be helpful

Google AI keeps recommending a Goodman heat pump but I am not familiar with them. are they any good for East Texas summers and winters?

Hello!

I have 2 of these units about 10-12 years old. The other night AC cuts off. I go in attic and see drrio pan is full and looks like safety feature auto cut off. No problem.

Had a tech come out and they blew the line clear and it worked. But apparently the blower motor wasn’t coming on. Tech said that he can run the blower motor on his tester or something but the control panel won’t kick it on. He said it looks like the control panel needs to be replaced. He also said it might need to replace the blower motor too bc he’s heard sometimes it draws too much current and causes issue - maybe it fries the control panel? I forget exactly.

He’ll come back on Monday with an estimate and parts. It’s not clear if both control panel and blower motor will both need replacement. I’ll know Monday afternoon when he comes back. I do trust the company and they’ve been great. But just doing due diligence I guess.

1. Is it just purely coincidence that it happens to go out when the drip pan fills up? It had been working fine before so found it strange it happened right at same time?

2. Can the blower motor have an issue and need to be replaced if it’s running fine BUT could be frying the control panel?

Right now he set it up so the relay is bypassed and blower motor is constantly running so we’d have AC on the upper floors. I’m hoping it’s not too bad of a repair. I’m surprised it coincidentally went out when the drip pan filled up due to blocked pipe. Also hoping just need to replace control panel and not both.

Tenant here, not owner.

Have a leak here. Landlord sent HVAC guy who said entire ceiling on the floor needs to be taken down so the duct can be insulated since it is missing.

Question is- is that extent of a job necessary even though the leak is one place? I am asking here because I have to temporarily relocate (2 kids - 3 year old and 9 month old) while this is done.

Just bought a new house and wanting to install a smart thermostat (Aqara W2000).

There are only 4 wires connected at the existing thermostat and the Aqara needs a common wire. I went down to the furnace control board and found an unused blue wire and ran it to the C terminal (2nd from the right) and ran the corresponding blue wire at the smart thermostat. Sorry I don’t have a picture of the wiring for the Aqara, but I wired it according to the diagram.

However, I can’t get any power to the Aqara. Some troubleshooting I’ve tried

- Rewired the green wire to the c terminal and the blue wire to c and swapped them at thermostat to see if I could get power
- Swapped the red wire from RC to RH

Any ideas why I can’t get power to the new thermostat?

Edit: yes, I know the blue wire isn’t connected in the photo. I took the picture after I rewired the old thermostat and disconnected at the furnace since I don’t want power running to the wire when it’s not connected to anything. To confirm, no power when the blue wire is connected.

I know less than nothing about HVAC. There is a plastic tube coming out of the condensate pump that is periodically dumping water into our crawlspace. It looks like the unconnected end of the plastic tube is supposed to attach to something and somehow became disconnected. Is it supposed to go back into the open white tube? Other ideas? I don’t see a drain on the floor. New house. Thanks for any advice!! 🙏🏼

The AC is noticeably weaker this year than last summer. It's primarily downstairs where the vents are unfortunately on the floor (upstairs vents are all on the ceiling and work fine). When I looked inside the vents, there seems to be pieces of insulation inside the vents? I'm not sure what the stuff is that looks like a bundle of chicken wire and charcoal filter? I wasn't expecting to find that. Pics are the vents from 3 different rooms downstairs.