AC Repair in Texarkana, AR
Air conditioners here run from May through September. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Miller County will get in touch.
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Five months of Texarkana heat wears on your AC
From May through September your air conditioner is working most days, and on a 92°F afternoon it runs long stretches just to hold the house steady. That kind of runtime adds up on the compressor and the fan motor, the parts that carry the load every time the system cycles on.
Miller County has also seen 57 damaging wind events and 22 hail events over the past ten years, with hail up to 1.5 inches. Wind can bend the fins on your outdoor unit or knock it out of level, and hail that size can dent the cabinet or damage the coil inside it. If your AC is struggling to keep up or making noise it didn't before, one of these is usually why.
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner is on duty
- 92°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 22 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 57 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $60 a year off cooling for a typical Miller County home.
Estimates for a typical Miller County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Arkansas 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.
Arkansas requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
Arkansas tests contractors before they get a license, and the license is tied to the person and business doing the work, not issued fresh for each job. Cities and counties in Arkansas cannot layer on their own HVAC license requirement, so the state license is the credential that applies no matter where in Miller County the work is done.
For a repair on your air conditioner, that state license is what stands behind the person doing the work. If the repair involves opening the refrigerant side of the system, the technician also has to hold EPA Section 608 certification, which is a federal requirement in every state and separate from Arkansas's license. Between the two, the license accounts for who is allowed to run the business, and the federal certification accounts for who is allowed to handle the refrigerant itself.
Source: Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- Most often the filter is clogged and starving the system of airflow, or the refrigerant level is low from a leak. A dirty filter forces the coil to run colder than it should until it ices over, and once that happens you get weak air or no cold air at all until it thaws. Low refrigerant almost always means a leak somewhere in the line set or coil, not normal use, since these are sealed systems. A contractor can check airflow and refrigerant charge and tell you which one you're dealing with.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Water around your indoor unit usually means the condensate drain line is clogged. As the system runs, the coil pulls moisture out of the air and that water is supposed to drain outside through a small line, but algae and dirt build up inside that line over time and block it. When it backs up, the water has nowhere to go but out of the pan or unit. A frozen coil that's now thawing can cause the same kind of puddle, so it helps to know whether the system was running normally or blowing weak air before the leak started.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Start with the thermostat and the breaker before assuming the worst. Check that the thermostat is set to cool and below room temperature, and check your electrical panel for a tripped breaker, since outdoor units are on their own circuit and trip easily if the compressor is struggling. If the breaker keeps tripping when you reset it, stop resetting it and have it looked at, since that usually points to a problem with the compressor or wiring rather than a simple fluke. Arkansas requires HVAC contractors to be licensed, so make sure whoever diagnoses it holds that license.