At Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning, we get this question a lot. Your air conditioner does not actually consume or use Freon or refrigerant. Your air conditioner is a closed system. That means the Freon or refrigerant recycles continuously through your air conditioning system. Thus, if your air conditioner is leaking Freon or refrigerant, the air conditioning of your home will stop working at some point. Freon or refrigerant leaks come in many different locations and sizes. Really small leaks are very hard to find. The leak could be at a valve. The leak could be in the evaporator coil which sits in your air conditioner unit inside the house. It could be in the line set which is like the railroad tracks carrying the Freon or refrigerant inside and outside your house. Trying to find it can literally be like finding a needle in a haystack. And, if you find it, as soon as you patch it, the increased pressure inside your system may now cause another blowout or leak. You may go from one leak to the next with no end in sight. Your Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning technician can help you decide if tracking the elusive leak down is more cost effective than replacing the potentially leaking parts. Recently, a Marietta customer decided to pay Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning to find the leak. We found “a” leak and patched it up. Three days later, the unit sprung another leak. Besides paying us to try to find the original leak and for the new Freon or refrigerant, the Marietta customer now had to pay us a second time for the same things. Because the system was aging, two weeks later it sprung another leak. Now the Marietta customer paid us to install a new unit. This is the gamble Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning sees when dealing with Freon or refrigerant leaks.

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At Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning, we want you to understand how your air conditioning works. Your air conditioner does not actually bring cold air into your house but instead takes the heat inside your house and sends it outside. Have you ever put your hand over the fan (or condensing unit) on the outside of your house while the fan is blowing? You will feel hot air. That is the hot air that used to be inside your house. Your air conditioner uses a refrigerant like Freon or R22 that is cycled from your fan or condenser outside to your evaporator coil inside. Essentially air conditioning uses the dynamics of pressure, expansion, gas and liquid to cool your house. The refrigerant is very cold when inside your house and removes the heat from your house. When the hot air inside your house contacts the refrigerant, it expands the cold liquid and is then sent back outside to have the heat removed. Your refrigerant is like a train that carries the hot air outside and returns inside with very cold passengers. These principals are the same whether your unit is Marietta, Roswell or anywhere in Atlanta. At Mechanic’s Heating and Air Conditioning, we understand all the dynamics of a simple yet complex system.

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