{"id":1302,"date":"2020-05-11T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:58:49","slug":"understanding-when-have-ac-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/air-conditioning-service\/understanding-when-have-ac-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding When You Have an AC Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/woman-in-front-of-fan-hand-on-head-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"woman-in-front-of-fan-hand-on-head\" class=\"wp-image-1304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/woman-in-front-of-fan-hand-on-head-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/woman-in-front-of-fan-hand-on-head-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/woman-in-front-of-fan-hand-on-head.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As the weather is getting warmer as we get nearer to summer,\nair conditioners are going to get to work\u2014and some of them will start to <em>not<\/em>\nwork. We offer 24\/7 repair service for our customers when they have an\nemergency situation with their air conditioning systems. We know how vital a\ncooling system is for the comfort and safety of your family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But people sometimes have questions about what constitutes a\nneed for an emergency call. An air conditioner that won\u2019t turn on at all\ncertainly <em>seems<\/em> like an emergency. But maybe there is a simple\nexplanation? Sometimes there is, and we want to help you understand better when\nyou have an actual AC emergency on your hands and how to tell when there\u2019s a\nsimple troubleshooting step that will take care of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3>If the air conditioning system won\u2019t turn on at all<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When the air conditioner is supposed to kick in, nothing\nhappens. You don\u2019t hear the fans or the compressor come on. This sounds urgent,\nbut before you call for an emergency repair you can check on a few things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Go to the electrical panel for your house and\ncheck if any of the circuit breakers have tripped. The motors in the AC may sometimes\noverload their circuit and cause them to cut off power. Reset any tripped breaker\nand see if the AC turns on. If it does, but the breaker soon trips again, you\u2019ll\nneed to have technicians see what electrical repairs the system may need.<\/li><li>Examine the settings on the thermostat. This\nseems extremely simple, but it\u2019s a common occurrence for a mistake with\nprogrammable settings to cause an AC not to turn on when it should. If the\nthermostat panel is blank, it\u2019s either because the thermostat needs batteries\nor a limit switch in the AC has tripped. The later case will require\ntechnicians to repair the system.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>If the air conditioner isn\u2019t making the house cool<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter how cool you set the house\u2019s thermostat, the AC isn\u2019t\nkeeping up with the demand\u2014your house is too hot, and the air coming from the\nvents is either room temperature or simply not cool enough. A few things to do\nbefore calling for help:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Change a clogged air filter in the HVAC cabinet.\nIf the filter is clogged, it chokes off the air available to be cooled down and\nalso reduces airflow through the ventilation system.<\/li><li>The thermostat could also be at fault here, so\ncheck on those settings to see that they aren\u2019t raised higher than they should\nbe.<\/li><li>Look around the outdoor condenser cabinet. It\nmay be blocked by leaves or tree branches or other obstructions. This limits\nhow much heat the system can release and therefore how much it can cool down\nthe house.<\/li><li>Go through the rooms to see if the vent\nregisters are open and unobstructed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019ve gone through this troubleshooting and you still haven\u2019t found an answer, please don\u2019t try to do a DIY repair. It\u2019s time for a <a href=\"\/air-conditioning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Delaware HVAC contractor<\/a>\u2014and that\u2019s us!\u2014to solve the problem. We\u2019re ready to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>\u201cWe Take Pride in Your Comfort!\u201d <a href=\"\/contact\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Call Atlantic Refrigeration &amp; Air Conditioning, Inc. for service in Delaware and the Maryland Eastern Shore.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes have questions about what constitutes a need for an emergency call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[89,167,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticrefrigeration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}