I learned to fix my air conditioning unit
When I first moved into my rental house my landlord told me not to call about HVAC. She went into some long speech about already servicing the unit. She told me it worked fine! Well that was a total lie, I experienced one summertime and realized that the AC wasn’t up to par. The air coming out of the unit was tepid. I was always sweaty and unhappy. I knew the landlord would not call a HVAC corporation over the cooling unit, so I started looking up online on what to do. I changed the air filter which showed the cooling repair never happened. The filter was clogged with weeks worth of dust, debris and hair. That didn’t repair the AC though. I vacuumed the inside of it and checked the air duct for any damage. Then I went to my outdoor unit and noticed it was at an angle. The unit was only slightly tipped however enough that I noticed. I started researching online if a tipped outdoor air compressor would affect the cooling of a HVAC unit. Turns out, yup it does. The refrigerant will pool to one side of the equipment and then the air won’t blow over it. So then the air coming from the compressor and through the air duct hasn’t been cooled, it will feel hot. I bought some tile blocks to prop up my equipment and I leveled it, then now that it is all squared away, I have perfect cooling. I haven’t told my landlord yet that I fixed her cooling issues. When the girl won’t give me my rental deposit back I will threaten to take the fantastic AC away.