If your air conditioner uses R-22 refrigerant and the refrigerant leaks, it will be expensive to recharge the system. In the very near future, it will likely become either cost-prohibitive or ...
NON-FLOODED USE: ComStar’s RS-44b can be used to replace R-22 in all non-flooded, high-, medium-, and low-temperature systems down to minus 20°F evaporating temperature. June 29, 2020 While it became ...
BROOKFIELD -- You may not know the chemical used in your A/C, but that may soon change. The U.S. government will soon stop the manufacturing of a chemical, eating away at the ozone. It is called 'R-22 ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Our Verify team looked at air conditioning refrigerant and whether one of the most common kinds is phasing out. It's true, but is there any reason to freak out? A local AC expert tells ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- With a string of 80-degree days ahead, chances are good your air conditioner will get lots of use. Metro Heating & Cooling is already getting calls. "It's time to have the ...
Q: My air conditioning contractor just charged me $100 per pound for R-22 refrigerant. This is a lot more than I paid four years ago. Is this a fair price these days? A: Prices for R-22 refrigerant, ...
Homeowners who have an air-conditioning system installed before 2010 could be in for a shock when their unit needs more Freon. While Freon, the Dupont/Chemours Co. brand name for the refrigerant R-22, ...
Your air conditioner is not suddenly obsolete in 2026, but the rules around what goes inside it are changing fast. Whether you can keep repairing the system you have now largely comes down to which ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Retrofitting HFC refrigerants into systems designed for HCFC-22 is gaining attention especially in refrigeration because that sector moved especially fast to R-22 when CFCs faced ...