09/05/2026
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84 degrees in the hallway, standing at the thermostat trying to work out what broke.
The hard part: one symptom can come from four or five completely different faults, and they look identical from the wall.
"It runs and runs and never gets to 74" is our most common call in Miami this month. That one alone can be low refrigerant, a coil packed with dirt, a tired capacitor, or duct dumping cold air into a 130-degree attic.
Ice on the copper line outside and a house that never catches up can be one fault, or two unrelated ones. Sorting that out is a measurement: gauges, pressures, the temperature split across the coil, airflow, the condensate path. That's why the article doesn't hand you a "try this first" list.
What helps most is describing it accurately when you call:
β’ thermostat dark
β’ warm air while it's clearly running
β’ water by the air handler, a brown ring on the ceiling, damp carpet
β’ trips the breaker
β’ hums or clicks and the outdoor fan won't spin
β’ two minutes on, ten off, all day
β’ musty, sour or hot-electrical smell at startup
Tell us which one and when it started. Same-day across most of Miami-Dade and Broward, from Kendall and Doral to Miami Beach. Licensed tech, marked truck, full diagnostic, written estimate before anything is opened. FL CAC1817115.
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