REMINDER: R-22 REFRIGERANT HAS BEEN TOTALLY PHASED OUT

R-22, the primary refrigerant utilized in air conditioners for a few years, poses a big hazard for the setting. Consequently, the Environmental Safety Company began a plan to section out R-22 between 2013 and 2020. As a result of there have been so many models within the area that used this refrigerant, the method slowly lowered the quantity of R-22 being produced till it was fully phased out. As of now, R-22 is now not being produced or imported into the US.

What does this imply for me?

In case your unit nonetheless requires R-22, remember that this refrigerant is turning into extremely scarce, and due to this fact fairly costly. And, as soon as the present provide is used up, your gear is not going to be fixable by any means. For that reason, even a minor AC restore means you’ll have to pay an inflated value for a short lived repair or finally change your system with one that doesn’t use R-22.

What are your choices for an R-22 unit?

When you nonetheless have a unit that makes use of R-22, you will have three major choices.

• Improve your unit now – Almost certainly, you’ll must improve your unit when a breakdown happens. You will be proactive and make the change now, having fun with the larger vitality effectivity of a brand new system and eradicating the chance of an R-22 downside sooner or later.
• Retrofit your system – Some techniques will be retrofitted to simply accept newer refrigerant. You’ll need an HVAC skilled to verify your system to see if that is an possibility for you.
• Do nothing and settle for future bills – Technically, you don’t must do something proper now. You simply have to know {that a} breakdown will both require the set up of a brand new unit, or a refill of scarce refrigerant that has turn out to be wildly costly and that may inevitably leak once more. Due to the phaseout, there isn’t a solution to guarantee R-22 — if it leaks out of your unit the day after set up, there’s nothing that may be achieved.