AC Repair in League City, TX
Air conditioners here run from April through October. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Galveston County will get in touch.
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Seven months of Texas heat wears on your AC
Your air conditioner runs from April through October here, with summer afternoons averaging 90°F. That is seven straight months of the compressor cycling on and off to keep up, day after day.
Galveston County has also seen 48 damaging wind events and 19 hail storms in the past ten years, with hail as large as 2.75 inches. Wind can bend the fins on your outdoor unit or throw debris into it, and hail that size can dent the cabinet or damage the coil inside it. When the coil is damaged, the system struggles to cool the house even though it keeps running.
- 7 months
- April through October, your air conditioner is on duty
- 90°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
- 19 hail events
- in ten years, and hail bends the fins on outdoor coils
- 48 wind events
- in ten years, and wind drives debris into outdoor units
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new air conditioner would cut about $90 a year off cooling for a typical Galveston County home.
Estimates for a typical Galveston County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Texas 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.
Texas requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issues that license, and it tests the contractor before handing it out. It sits with the person or business, not with any single repair, so the same license covers this job and the next one.
For a repair like this, the part that matters most is the refrigerant. Any technician who opens that side of your air conditioner has to hold EPA Section 608 certification, and that rule applies in every state, not just Texas. The state license accounts for the contractor. The federal certification accounts for the work on the refrigerant lines itself.
Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
- Why is my AC not blowing cold air?
- The most common cause is a dirty air filter choking off airflow, so start there before anything else. A clogged filter starves the coil of air, and the coil can ice over, which turns the air warm even though the system is running. Low refrigerant from a leak causes the same warm air and the same ice on the coil, but that only a licensed contractor can confirm and fix. If the filter is clean and the vents are still warm, have someone check the refrigerant charge and the outdoor unit.
- Why is my AC leaking water?
- Most of the time this is a clogged condensate drain line, and it backs up and overflows the drain pan instead of carrying water outside. Algae and dirt build up in that line over months of summer use, especially through League City's long April through October cooling season. A dirty filter can cause the same problem by icing the coil, which then melts and produces more water than the pan can handle. Either way, a contractor can clear the line and check the pan and switch for damage.
- Why won't my AC turn on?
- Check the thermostat first, since a dead battery or a setting bumped off cool will stop the system before it ever starts. If the thermostat looks right, check the breaker panel, since a tripped breaker cuts power to the whole unit. Summer storms here bring damaging wind, and 48 such events have hit the area over the past ten years, so a breaker trip after a storm is not unusual. If the breaker is fine and the thermostat is set correctly, the problem is inside the unit and needs a licensed contractor to diagnose.