AC Repair in Yonkers, NY
Air conditioners here run from June through August. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Westchester County will get in touch.
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Three months of heat, all at once
Your air conditioner in Yonkers gets three months to do its work, June through August, with afternoons averaging 82°F. It does not run gently into the season. It gets asked for full output right away and has to hold that pace for weeks at a time.
That kind of steady, hard running is what wears a capacitor down or pushes a contactor past its limit. You notice it as a unit that struggles to keep up on the hottest afternoons, or one that shuts off and won't restart until it cools down on its own. Westchester County has also seen 167 damaging wind events and 16 hail events over the past ten years, with hail up to 1.75 inches. Wind can bend the fins on an outdoor unit or knock debris into it, and hail that size can dent the cabinet or damage the coil underneath.
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner is on duty
- 82°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 16 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 167 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 Westchester County home.
Estimates for a typical Westchester County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, New York 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?
- Most of the time the filter is clogged and starving the system of airflow, so check that first since it is the easiest thing to fix yourself. If the filter is clean, low refrigerant from a leak is the next likely cause, and that needs a licensed contractor since refrigerant has to be recovered and the leak found before more is added. A frozen evaporator coil will also cause this, and it usually points back to one of those same two problems.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- The condensate drain line is probably clogged. Your AC pulls moisture out of the air as it cools it, and that water is supposed to run out through the drain line to the outside. When the line clogs with algae or dirt, the water backs up and drips inside instead, often from the indoor unit or a ceiling below it. A frozen coil that then thaws out fast can cause the same thing, so the line is worth checking before anything else.
- 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 the room temperature, and check the breaker panel for a tripped switch, since a hard summer afternoon can trip it. If both look fine, the outdoor unit itself may have failed, and that calls for a contractor to check the capacitor and other electrical parts.