Ask Me Help Desk - Central Air Conditioning Unit Not Cooling

Last night my temperature was set on 77 degrees on my Central AC towards the end of the night, the house started getting hotter, I looked at the AC Thermostat and it read 83 degrees in the home and it never cooled off. This morning it still read 83 degrees and still warm and I turned the Central AC off. I could still hear the unit running from outdoors, so I was wondering could this be the compressor or something else The unit was installed in March 2003 when I built my home, so I thought it was muich too soon for the compressor to be going on within this time frame of 5 years. Do you have any suggestions or conclusions of what the problem could be?

Are you sure the compressor was running,or just the fan in outside unit, when running you should be ables to feel the copper lines comng into the house,the largest line should get pretty cold after a few minutes, this will tell you the compressor is running, if not call the local man with the a/c company

Is your AC using a digital thermostat? I do not much about Ac but I canprove one for sure... We are inflorida and we need ac almoist all year. Aparaently our digital thermostat went crazy, lost the settings, the program etc... and a reset will not do... we were experincing the same issue as you the air handler inside the house will keep running but the big box outside will try to start on and off... we ended up buying the outside unit for $800 when we really did not needed.. because even with the new unit the problem was the same. We changed back to a $9.99 manual thormostatt from Wal-mart and viola! All problems solved. We did not need a new outside unit and our AC guy did not tel us that, of course! He wanted to take advanatage of the situation. Please relate this message to others we are al being riped off from those AC technicians...

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Originally Posted by BocaRaton

Is your AC using a digital thermostat? I do not much about Ac but I canprove one for sure... We are inflorida and we need ac almoist all year. aparaently our digital thermostat went crazy, lost the settings, the program etc... and a reset will not do... we were experincing the same issue as you the air handler inside the house will keep running but the big box outside will try to start on and off ... we ended up buying the outside unit for $800 when we really did not needed.. because even with the new unit the problem was the same. we changed back to a $9.99 manual thormostatt from Wal-mart and viola! all problems solved. We did not need a new outside unit and our AC guy did not tel us that, of course! he wanted to take advanatage of the situation. Please relate this message to others we are al being riped off from those AC technicians...

Really sorry to hear about what happened to you, its people like that ,that give a profession a bad name,, I advise people to get a second opinion, because you can be unlucky enough to get someone that doesn`t know all he clams to know,would you get a heart transplant without a second opinion,, I wouldn`t,. don`t pass the word around that all ac technicians are ripoff artist,, it will cause knowbody to have working a/c`s because of misstrust,just bad mouth the one that ripped you off

I am having similar problems, and would be very interested and thankful for any advice. As for the thermostat issue, there are crooks everywhere, however, I don't think it's right to put down an entire profession for the actions of a few bad seeds... especially here, where it seems to me that the techs who come here and give their opinions and advise (FREE) are trying to help. Anyway, thanks in advance!

We have a similar problem, which we just found out last night. We just moved into our home 3 months ago, and it wasn't warm enough to turn the CAC until last night. We live in north jersey.
So yesterday, we decided to run the AC and no air was coming in. We can hear the unit running, but down the basement, we hear a funny noise. My boyfriend decided to turn off the furnace, thinking maybe that was interfering but as soon as he did that, the AC unit shut off.

At this point, we have no idea how old the unit is, and what can be the issue.
But after we thought about it, when we toured the home, the previous owners (which was an older couple) had a window unit in their bedroom.. so... when my boyfriend asked them why do they have a window unit, when they already have CAC, their response was "because my husband get such bad migraines that he needs the AC on all the time"... and we believed it.
So we're wondering, if they just told us that story so they didn't have to fix the AC before selling the home or what...

I have a bryant ac unit which isn't working. I just went outside to check the unit and only to realize that the fan isn't rotating. I originally bought the house in 03 and 7 years later the ac isn't working. What should I do?

Start your own thread to start with. You make it confusing when you post to an older thread.

Had the same problem with no cold air - took the side access panels off the outside (compressor) unit and hosed out all the dead grass that was clogging the condenser coils. AC works beautifully now!