New AC noises: what to notice and report

that noise your AC is making, we're going to diagnose it in about 10 seconds. Buzzing, screeching, or grinding, your AC is telling you exactly what's wrong, and I can rank them right here in like 30 seconds. One of them means you should turn it off right now. So, buzzing, especially if it's like the fan and it's not spinning, it's electrical issue, usually it's capacitor, and I'll say it plainly, this is one of the cheapest fixes in the business, usually between 150 and 300 bucks to repair. Annoying, yes, catastrophic, no. Screeching on startup, that's a motor bearing crying for help, fan motor, blower motor, indoor, outdoor, doesn't matter. Schedule it this week, it's not a crisis yet. However, if a fan dies in the heat of summer, bad news bears. Grinding or a hard mechanical slam from the outdoor unit, turn it off right now, call somebody. That is a compressor territory, the heart of the system, and running it with it being this way means that you're probably going to pay somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 dollars to replace that compressor. Don't be somebody who gets caught without AC when the system is giving you early warning signs. Recap, buzz, schedule it. Screech, make it happen this week. If it's a grinding or a slam, turn it off and call somebody immediately. Save this video, your AC will thank you later.

A system that has always sounded one way and then suddenly starts buzzing, grinding, rattling, or hard starting is telling you something. Sound changes are often early warning signs. Don't wait till the system quits completely. Guys, if your system sounds like it's all of a sudden it's like in a garage band, that's not a good sign. Call someone out. That's not a normal operation. So, if you notice it operating one way, sounds one way, and then the next day it sounds completely different, that's an early warning sign to get your system checked.

Uh, this customer in Blanchard called about a loud noise coming from their outdoor AC unit and we found a a dusty blower wheel, cleared the drain lines and washed the condenser. The capacitor was out of range, so we replaced it under warranty. They signed up as a member to stay on top of maintenance year round, which is awesome and great work by our technician, Nick. [Music]

When you hear your AC making noises like this, it's usually a bad sign. In this Oklahoma City home, uh the contactctor was chattering and blowing fuses. Uh we replace the fuses and the contacttor, checked the pressures. Now the system is cooling like it should. Shout out to Philip for taking care of this customer. [Music]

[music] >> Now, if we see ice on the lines, anything like that, call a professional. Warm air in the house that's not getting any better, go ahead and call us. If there's any buzzing at the outdoor unit, fans not running when it should be, >> [music] >> call a professional. Water leaking at or around the air handler or furnace, call a professional. [music] And lastly, anything refrigerant related, that is not DIY stuff. We don't recommend any homeowner mess with refrigerant. [music] Definitely call a professional. And if you need five-star service in the Oklahoma City metro area, go ahead and give us a call. >> [music] >> Your pros. >> [singing]

If your AC starts making noises like this, it's not something you want to ignore. We ended up replacing the compressor under warranty, ran some tests, and verified proper cooling. Today, everything is running smoothly. [Music]

If you hear odd noises, that's when you should call in the pro. Because the end of summer checklist is not about how do we just skirt this thing by, but it's how do I make sure that I don't have a huge ticket repair or a huge ticket replacement that could have otherwise been mitigated. Because if you ignore compressors making odd noises, you're taking what probably could be a $5 to $600 repair and turning it into a $2,500 to $5,000 compressor replacement. And that doesn't take a whole lot of napkin math for you to do to understand, hey, I need to make sure that this is taken care of so that I don't 10x my repair costs unnecessarily.

You're hearing a clicking noise that wasn't there before. Your system turns on and it's making a different noise. It's making a different sound. That's indicative of certain parts having problems, having some more wear and tear, and running differently than it did last year. And this could be a sign your system may not last through the summer. Hey guys, hope you enjoyed that video. If you're interested in an instant estimate for either HVAC or plumbing upgrades, click the link below. We have all of our pricing available on our website. Your pros. >> [music]

So, when you call any HVAC company, including us, the quality of information you give the dispatcher changes the outcomes of the service call. All right, so here's what you tell them. Is the outdoor system running at all, right? Is there any airflow in the vents or nothing at all? Did this start suddenly or has it been happening gradually and getting worse? Did you recently change the filter? Have you noticed ice on the copper lines near the indoor unit? Is it one room that's having the problem or is it the entire house? Is there a loud noise or a clicking or nothing unusual? Just it's not cold. Know your system's age if you can. All right, so it's usually on the sticker on the outdoor unit, okay? So, because this context changes the repair versus replace math immediately. Okay, so that information lets the tech arrive prepared. It can also help you identify whether you have a simple filter issue you can address before someone comes out, okay? Which will ultimately save you the diagnostic fee. And it saves our tech a trip.

hi I'm Philip with yard bro and Suns heating air and plumbing and today we're heading out for a heating and air inspection at a customer's house we're going to do a onetime inspection on the full heating system a onetime inspection on the cooling system in the same trip now we don't know a whole lot about this system we do know that they've had some noise from the outdoor unit upon start up and shut down homeowners have been told before that they need they do need parts on that outdoor unit so we're going to go out there and figure out what they have going on today young

A lot of times we have intermittent prompt and something will do something just intermittently. If you can catch that on footage and send it to us, that's always a big help to let us know kind of what we need to look for and stuff like that because intermittent problems. We've had lots of times where we show up to the house and everything's running fine and there's no initial indication of what's going wrong. Um, and then we're called back out about a week later because now it did it again. So knowing why it did it, what you did, what changes you made, did you change something on the thermostat, did you do this, do this? Definitely will help us to make sure that if it's an intermittent problem, we can further diagnose it on things like that.

so when we have drastic cold snaps and changes in temperature pretty drastically we get a lot more calls for noise complaints cuz they're people don't really notice when it's mild outside that their system is running a lot you don't really think about it but when it's cold you think oh my gosh it's cold in here let's turn this up or turn it down when it's hot outside you notice okay that's a weird sound I've never noticed before it could be an issue so we see a lot more depending on temperature outside so whenever it's drastic get more calls for it

this is a great reason why your ac system needs to be maintenanced and serviced to keep problems like this from happening so the fan blade was loose on this condenser and it completely wore down the connection right here and loosened up where the fan blades were able to spin freely however they would like to and all of them have snapped and are now in the bottom of the condenser and it's caused all sorts of havoc inside this ac unit so um if you're hearing a very very loud rattling sound uh have your system maintenance because you don't want that to happen

okay we're going to go over the eight most common AC problems that Oklahomans face one the AC is not cold enough AC is not cold enough we're going to check clog filters second we're going to check refrigerant pressures third we have to make sure your thermostat is actually reading the proper temperature second AC leak in water that means we either have a clogged or damaged condensate drain a frozen evaporator coil that's thawing or a damaged condensate pump three a noisy AC condenser which could be a loose fan blade bad bearings in a fan motor or compressor could be going out four Frozen AC we have dirty filters a restriction our refrigerant system or we're just low on refrigerant either leak or undercharging five AC is not blowing air well if we have that we have a restriction in our air flow meaning we're either Frozen or have bad filters AC turns on and off on its own well that could be a thermostat problem dirty condenser coil causing higher low head pressure and dirty filters low refrigerant levels unable to turn the AC on well we need to make sure everything's going good if the AC is tripping that's an electrical problem we need to make sure that our compressor hasn't shorted the ground or other major components haven't failed all of this to say in conclusion regular maintenance could help prevent a lot of headaches this summer

Your air conditioner more often than not isn't just going to like self-destruct, right? It's not going to just decide one day to just detonate, just yeet itself off the ledge, but like most of the time there's going to be warning signs. We are your air conditioner's doctor. That's who we are. There's signs in the way that air flow feels coming out of a vent. Maybe it's not as cold as it used to be. Or if you go outside and your air conditioner is like squealing, like if you just hear this like whining noise, bad news bears, something's going on. We either have bearings going out on the fan motor or worse yet the compressor might be having, you know, basically the equivalent of a seizure. So, call somebody quickly on that one. Or if you're standing by the condenser and you hear just like this click, click click click [laughter] click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click, that is the contacttor and the contacttor is getting intermittent voltage. Or if we go outside and nothing's happening and the indoor unit is running and the outdoor unit isn't running but the indoor unit says it's cooling, well, that means we've probably lost connection somewhere. So, if your air conditioner is making a bunch of noise, call

when you got a little noise like that coming from a motor that's drawing proper amperage um overall operating like it should be not any kind of play in the bearings but making a sound I'm going to recommend replacing that motor and that's one of those repairs that that's kind of a tough call in the field in this trade because uh you know you there's obviously a noise coming from this motor there's something going on but at the same time it's operating operating well within amperage rating bearings on the motor itself are doing well so one of those it's a tough call don't want the homeowner to be down and out if it does fail and at the same time you don't want to sell somebody something they don't want don't need or can't afford [Music]