3 most Common reasons Why Your Air Conditioner Freezes Up
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2016
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It is the hottest day of the year and yet your air conditioner is freezing up. Mark Boissoneault from Tradesman Heating and Cooling shares with you the three reasons why your air conditioner freezes up and what you can do to prevent that from happening.
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Simple, Clear, Accurate, no blaring background music. One of the best posts I have ever seen on TH-cam.
I appreciate the feedback Brian.
indeed the information was very accurate and my air cond is working properly again
Tradesman Mechanical Services Ltd. My tenant runs the A.C. when it is cool outside and the AC frezzes up. What is the lowest outside Fahrenheit temperature you can run a Central AC unit without doing damage.? Help.
I couldn't have said it better
Thanks for your pleasant comments Brian!
Years later and you just fixed my a/c. Thanks
Thank you so much . My air conditioning froze up today. I have change the filter in the air return. But I did not realize there was another filter in the heating unit where the air flows thru. So once I defrost I will check that. My dad died last year. And mom is clueless on everything he did about the house. They just had this unit installed last year before he died. And she can not find her paper work. So you have been so helpful. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for making this video! Hot spell in the middle of Feb and we have been burning up in the house for three days waiting for the repair guy... It was the filters of course...we all get a great nights sleep thanks to you...i will sub and like for ya.
Excellent, excellent presentation!
Useful, thoughtful and easily digestible information. Thank you!!
Thank you for your thorough explanation! This was very helpful to us when we had difficulty with our a.c. unit.
Thanks. That was perfectly explained.
The Canadian way has been to apologize if you are offended by our language terms. Rather than that I will simply comment that the internet has a way of sharing information globally without apologizing.
Great explanation and use of filter and part of evaporator coil to demonstrate. It was simple and not overly complicated. Thanks again Mark. May God continue to Bless your business.
Thank you Sergio for your response. Have a great day!
Thanks allot Mark and team, you just made me find the reason why my conditioner was freezing. It was both air bockage and a dirty filter. Thaks for sharing your knowledge to the world. Greetings from Monterrey, Mexico!
Thanks for a good explanation. I have another reason for Ice-up on my AC unit. My digital thermostat was malfunctioning - turning on the compressor and not the fan. The lack of air flow that you mentioned freezes it up pretty quick. Thanks for confirming that the lack of air flow can cause icing.
Very clear and simple . Thank you .
Happy to have helped!
Very informative thank you.
Glad to have helped.
Thank you, for a better understanding
did it...and its working perfectly fine! Thank you so much!
Excellent video! Thanks for the info-very helpful!!!
My window unit started to freeze and I was freaking out because it's super hott!!!!! I live in central Florida and we are in the month of April and the weather has been crazy to say the least lol. I just wanted to thank you for this video it was very helpful and the instructions on how to defrost my window unit were easy to follow. You have literally saved my night!! 😂😂 Thanks again for the video!😉😀
Hi Nina, You are welcome. Make sure to keep that filter behind the front grille clean!
Excellent explanation mate, thank you!
Thank you very much for helping me to understand my A/C system better.
Thanks mate. Bloody AirConditioner frozed up twice today. Thanks to you i know what happening 👍 G'day Mate. To hot here at the Tip of Australia 🌞⛅
Thanks for the nice video, very helpful, I appreciate that there is no music but great explanation.
Thank you for this free information. Seems nothing’s ever free anymore. I had a new heating cooling unit installed in April, this is September and I can’t cool my place any cooler than 80. Finally, today a tech came out and fount it was frozen, no one ever looked before. Had seven service calls. My thought all along was that there is a restriction or a leak, because it’s colder in the crawl than the house. I don’t understand the a/c process,but, now I see why little clearer. Thanks again.
Thank you very much from Smyrna, Tennessee.
There is only 1 reason an evaporator coil freezes, if the evaporator drops below freezing level. All your answers are the causes of why it's dropping below freezing 😊. Ether way great video.
thank you AC man, very helpful.
I was just watching this to reconfirm what I already knew before I start explaining to my friend why his AC is doing this. This was everything I remembered.
Great posting, agree with Brian. It's simple and easy to understand. Thank you.
Glad to help Esther.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo very helpful I was looking into getting another unit. thank god i saw this video. I'll try this first. Thanks!!!!!!
Straight to the Point, Very Clear and informative. Great Video!
Thanks for your comment today!
Better than 90% of others explanations. Good Job. Now I know for sure what is going on, thought it was pump or drain clog, but air flow problem.
Very informative. Thank you.
Good and simple information. Thanks
Thank you sir so direct! I’m subscribing for sure ❤️
Great advice. Really helped thanks
Thank you sir... Very informative and concise
Very well explained. Wish you would be closer to us, I live in South West Virginia and purchased 22 wall thru PTAC units(heat pump) and brand new units are freezing up while running on the heat setting. Feeling helpless.
I found this very informative. Thanks a Lot
You are most welcome Chisom.
I loved it. Exact info I was looking for. Thanks
Excellent video, blazing summer heat and the ac is constantly puddling water under the handler. I changed the filter and hosed down the a pillar which was full of dust(desperate maneuver). I check the drain line and it's clear. I think it's low refrigerant and me having the vent in the second bedroom closed completely. A combination of things. Great video thank you.
This is by far the best video for simple minded people like myself for explaining the freezing problem on your a/c unit. Thank you very much👍🏼
loved it very helpful thanks
Thanks Excellent summary.
Great information!
Thank you!!
Very useful information. Thank you.
Yes you are correct. A contactor or thermostat as well as a pinched wire that shorts out Y to R can all be a reason that would cause the system to stay running and over cool and freeze up the evaporator. There are a few other conditions also not mentioned here as well. My intention for this short video was simply to offer a basic explanation of what I consider to be 3 of the most common reasons that most homeowners might encounter.
Thank you for your comment.
Thank you so much I'm new to the field and had a compressor and sucton line In ice and I knew it was a leak in the system but you also said that if you block all the vents that can be the issue as well.
great video!
Thanks for your help!
Thank you so much for your help and explainations
My Pleasure !
Very helpful thanks for posting
very good explanation...
You are awesome, thank you ,your advice was helpful
Great answer found my problem immediately
Thank you so much. You just saved me a lot of money. I was about to call a tech and with your advice, i was able to solve it by myself. Keep it up sir
Thank you for your comments today. always appreciated!
Extremely informative, thank you for sharing
You are most welcome. Have a great day!
Extremely helpful, thank you
Nice! Have a great day.
Thank you sir it helps a lot .
Very good tips
Thanks. Good information.
Thank you for the info.
Good info! Thanks for sharing
Thanks a lot
No doubt very informative thank ya
Mark thanks your video it was extremely helpful to me. At first when I took the cover off the evaporator looked clean. When I finally figured a way to remove the small cover, so i could see the inside of the evap the crud in there was incredible. I took a toothbrush and a Shop-Vac cleaned it. i wish i could have uploaded photos
Sir THANK'S A LOT !
Great help. I needed this to figure outs out.
(PS) don't think I don't see that York International patch. ;-) York PA ftw!
Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you sooo much, I was freaking out
Nice!
Thank you very helpful
Hi, thanks for the video! Is there a way to know how many pounds of coolant need to be added to a system to fully charge it, before the coolant is actually added? Do the gauges when checking tell you how many pounds low it is? Also...with a 4.5 ton A-coil, should I expect an HVAC service person to take it out and lug it upstairs and outside to clean it, or is cleaning in place what I should expect?
Thank you.
Got it. Thank you.
Thank for the information! Very informative..
thank you very helpful
Thanks for the tips. I was having a lot of issues with my old coil freezing.
Turns out I had some airflow issues. One of the returns was blocked during previous renovation work..
My fan speed was set to low.
The old A/C unit blows ice cold after fixing these issues.. I have a feeling coughing up cash for a new one would have run into the same issues soon enough.
very valuable information i thank you sir
Great video 👍🏿
In most cases it's all about thermostat malfunction. resulting the AC unit to operate without cutout. second is some leaking ( freon) in the system and third is that dirty air filter . Big thanks for this. man! From start to end you deliver it well and it surely does add some information. More power 😉
Thanks
If the refrigerant level is too high, how does it affect the ac performance
Great info!
wow I could truely say this is the best information I ever heard about an A/C thanks
You are welcome Leonardo. Stay cool!
Thank you very much sir.....
Thank you for the tips. I have turned my machine off, and I will go to sleep, and hopefully it will have all melted by tomorrow morning. I am one of those people that like to live in a freezer, therefore, I usually have my unit running at 16°. I guess I know now to keep it at 20°. Hopefully that’s the only issue, and that it’s not an issue with the Freon that you mentioned, in which I would need to call a professional to come help me out with that matter.
I appreciate the clear, concise, straight to the point video that you have provided, and I will provide feedback as to whether or not, it was a success for me. Thank you.
Thank you so much for educating the reasons for AC freezing. It happened once to my AC because I forgot to change the air filter.
Happy to have helped. Have a great day!
great info 😉👍
Cleaned my radiator with a torch to get rid of the dust, a few days pass and now the radiator is frozen more than 3/4, searched you on yt cranked the ac down a little, now the 15+ year old ac blowing like its brand freaking new, Thanks
Thanks for the video man!
My dad has a problem with his unit freezing up. The unit is installed in a concrete basement garage and I have an idea that it doesn't get enough warm air through the system because the basement stays cool practically without air but maybe it actually is low on freon?.
Thankyou
Great video ! 👌🏽 my cousin is having these problems I shall inform him about your video and charge him 50 bucks
Good info........ Thanks!
Thank you sir
This guy is great was about to pay to have someone tell me what he just did thank you so much
Great info thanks
Have a great day1
Thank you so much sir!!!
Glad to hear you found this to be helpful.
Thank you ours is making popsicles. Will try your suggestions.
Excellent video - 1 question I have a York Aircon installed approx 5 years ago. Always have clean filters, changed regularly. My fear is that the unit is "too small" for the house square footage. Its aYork LX YCJD 13 Seer. My house square footage is 1800 sq ft above grade. Of course the company that sold and installed it have gone out of business. It is freezing up even if I set it to 23C - any thoughts?
thanks
Nice info