LESLIE: Bob in Texas is on the line with an air-conditioning question. What is going on at your money pit?
BOB: What I’ve got is some rust and calcium in my primary condensate reservoir. And the HVAC service guys tell me that I probably need to replace the evaporator coil, because he can’t seem to get it to unclog and – where the primary condensate drain drains properly. And he says there’s no pan that they make for it.
TOM: And how old is the condenser?
BOB: He said it looked like it was put in when the house was built, which would be about 40 years ago.
TOM: Ugh. Yeah. The fact that it’s 40 years old, it probably would make sense to replace it. Just keep in mind that if you want to improve the efficiency, which I’m sure you will, you have to replace the air handler, the evaporator coil and the condenser at the same time because they’re kind of a matched system. If you don’t care about that, you could just replace the condenser. But I think at 40 years old, yeah, it’s basically run the course of a normal useful life and it probably would make sense for you to replace it.
BOB: OK. Well, then I feel like I’ve gotten good advice. So, thank you all very much.
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