Frustrated Homeowner asks for help

Originally Posted by parkave
Hello mike I need your help.

My central air inside and outside is running but the air is not cold.When the outside unit come on you can feel the heat above the fan but after 2 minutes the sound is very low and no heat above the fan. A tech told me he thinks the compressor is good but the pipe from the compressor outside is clogged and he needs to empty it of freon,cut the pipe and clear the line.He said if its not that he think a line in the air handler is blocked. Please do you think this could be the problem if not what do you think.

Thanks.
It is entirely possible that you do have a restriction in the refrigerant circuit. If that is the case you should have high head pressure with high subcooling and low suction pressure with high superheat.
You may want to throw these terms out when you are talking to your service person and see what kind of response you get.
Good Morning Mike,
I think you are 100% right because he was having a lot of problem while trying to charge the system.He retrieve all the freon,then he used nitrogen to find a leak and blow out the line, but when he was replacing the freon I notice he was having a problem because he use a bucket of water and a lot of ice and after that the air from the ducts were warm and he said it would get cold after a while. It never so I turn it off.

Hope this shed a little more info and thanks but kinly let me know your professional advice .

parkave
If this person works for a large reputable company then call their office, describe the situation and ask for another tech. If they are a good company this will red flag them and they will send out a "call back guy"
this is a very experienced tech who is used to cleaning up other peoples messes.
If as you described the person at your house was using ice water he must not have been adding refrigerant he must have been trying to recover without a recovery machine.
If the company won't send someone else then you may have to just call another company and take your lumps it is very unfortunate but depending on the part of the country you are in there are a whole bunch of people in this business who have not been properly trained.
Mike,

I thank you very much for your professional help and valuable time. I have a new tech coming tomorrow who will do what you recommended and he thought was a possibility and as soon as everything I will contact you.
Again THANKS A MILLION
Parkave