AC Replacement Decision Checklist for an Aging and Unreliable System
A cooling system rarely fails all at once. More often, it starts by behaving badly in ways that are easy to excuse. It takes longer to pull down the temperature after a hot afternoon. One bedroom never quite cools off. The system runs longer, stops more often, or sounds different than it did last season. Then the service call comes, the repair gets made, and for a while everything seems fine. That is usually the moment homeowners start asking the hard question: repair or