AC Repair in Fort Morgan, CO
Air conditioners here run from June through August. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Morgan County will get in touch.
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Three months of hard running, and hail besides
Fort Morgan asks a lot of an air conditioner in a short window. June through August, with afternoons averaging 88°F, your system runs long hours to keep up, and it doesn't get much of a break to recover before the next hot afternoon arrives. That steady load wears on the compressor and the run capacitor that helps start it, the parts most likely to give out right when you need them most.
Morgan County has also logged 103 hail events and 55 damaging wind events over the past ten years, with hail up to 4 inches. The outdoor unit sits outside for all of it. Hail can bend the thin aluminum fins on the condenser coil, and a bent-up coil can't shed heat the way it should, so the system works harder and cools less. If your air conditioner suddenly seems weaker after a storm, that's often why.
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner is on duty
- 88°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 103 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 55 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $30 a year off cooling for a typical Morgan County home.
Estimates for a typical Morgan County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Colorado fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when a part like a capacitor or contactor has failed.
Replacement makes sense when the compressor has failed or the system uses R-22 refrigerant, which is no longer made.
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- The most common reason is a dirty air filter cutting off airflow across the coil, or the refrigerant level is low from a leak. It can also mean the outdoor unit is caked with debris and can't release heat, which matters here after hail storms leave grit and leaves packed into the fins. Check the filter first since that's the one thing you can rule out yourself. If it's clean and air still isn't cold, the system needs a contractor to check refrigerant and the coil.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Water around your indoor unit usually means the condensate drain line is clogged and backing up instead of draining outside. It can also mean the evaporator coil has frozen over from low airflow or low refrigerant, then dripped as it thawed. A dirty filter is often behind both problems, since it starves the coil of air. If the filter looks fine and water keeps showing up, the drain line or the coil needs a closer look from a contractor.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Start with the thermostat, since dead batteries or a setting bumped to off will stop the whole system cold. Next check the breaker panel, because a tripped breaker will cut power to the outdoor unit even though the thermostat still lights up. Summers here push units hard for three months straight, and a unit working overtime is more likely to trip a breaker or overheat a component. If the breaker won't stay reset or the thermostat looks fine and nothing happens, the system needs a contractor to check it.