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bbravo53
Jun 7, 2012, 10:34 PM
I had freon put in my central air conditioner it worked for a week or so but now is not cooling is there away to check for leak

hvac1000
Jun 8, 2012, 05:25 AM
i had freon put in my central air conditioner it worked for a week or so but now is not cooling is there away to check for leak

A good indicator of a refrigerant leak is oil residue around the leak since refrigerant mixes with the compressor oil and travels throughout the system. Also a good grade of liquid soap applied to a suspected leak area will sometimes cause bubbles in that leak area if a leak is present. Otherwise you will need some special leak detector equipment.