Finding a leaking 24 year old Rheem in bad shape.

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Iced up, thawed out, and charged up. Quoted them a whole new system.
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AI GeneratedA technician visits a home to diagnose an air conditioning system that is failing to cool the residence, particularly the bedroom. Upon inspection, the technician discovers a severely iced-up evaporator coil in an outdated unit from 1997. After confirming a refrigerant leak, the technician provides a temporary recharge while recommending a full system replacement.
Knock, knock.
Am I at the right place?
Yeah, yeah.
Fine, how you doing?
Where's your thermostat?
What's it been doing?
Well, since yesterday.
Like, it's not cool. It's still, like, warm in here.
Especially in our bedroom.
So, we put it down to that just a few minutes ago and
like, it's not getting cooler.
Alright, let's see here.
Is it on cool?
Filter
looks good.
My word,
we got a
dinosaur.
Let's
see if
I got
ice
down
there.
thing
looks
like
it's
about
to
fall
off
the
path
the
i
gotta
go
through
just
to
get
to
the
blower
it
was
running
and
it's
iced
up
i
can't
get
the
screws
out
but
i
got
a
trick
for
that
they could say seven
holy it's like this you
know what it's gonna
be low on freon
and a leaking evaporator coil
but i feel like i still gotta do my due diligence and
thaw
this thing
out all the water
flowing
over
the edge
here's the
backside
time to get
started
on it
Let's see
if we can find
the leak
I knew I was
going to find
something
over here.
If you leave
it there
for a little
while, this
actually
desensitizes
and turns the
sensitivity
down. That's
what I did
and it still
went off.
So I'm gonna
pull it out
of the Freon
for 10
seconds
and put it
back and it
should reset
seconds and put it back and it should r
eset
something
like
that
all
over
the
place
here
need to know
now I
don't
want
to do it
pull
it out I'm gonna confirm it one more time
and then we'll see if they want to charge it up and
I'll give them a price
on replacing this
old piece of junk
that date code is 097
so ninth week of
1997 for 24
years they got
their money's
worth out of
this probably
should take
a look at that
ductwork before i caught
him a change up nope i
ain't got my flashlight
with me well look at
there the ductwork's off the ground that's
a good sign that's pretty good it looks old
and like it
could
use a
rewrap
but
it's
intact
nothing's
on
the
ground
that's
good
hey
guys
i got
a
approval
from
this
property
manager
to go
ahead
and
charge
this up
i picked
this up
today
something
i've
been
needing.
been
needing
it
should
work,
but
we're
going
to
come
back.
We submitted an estimate, change that thing out, level it off.
