Well, so far we have had one hot summer here in Virginia Beach!

Of course I’m pretty happy about this as the phones are steadily ringing, but there is at least one equipment manufacturer who seems to be having trouble handling the heat this summer… Janitrol.

Actually Janitrol is a name used by Goodman manufacturing.  They no longer use the name but they sold tons and tons of these air conditioning units over the past 20 years and you more than likely have one in your home.

Goodman recently re-tooled their production facility and now put out one of the very best products  but it was not always that way.  In fact, we in the business lovingly refered to the Janitrol unit as “Junkatrol”!

Anyway, it seems this summer there have been a lot of capacitors going bad on these units.  I’ve replaced more than 100 of them myself so I cannot imagine how many all the other 400 or so ac companies have changed but the number must be staggering!

Anyway, capacitors are easy to replace and fairly inexpensive for us to buy but most companies are charging over $200 for this repair… CRAZY!!!!

I sure hope you have not fallen victime to this.  The most common capacitor sizes out there are 30-5 mfd, 40-5 mfd and 45-5 mfd.  You should not pay more than $89 for the largest size.

Sadly, thousands of you have and I sure hope that if you are reading this you will consider maybe using my company mext time you need air conditioning repair in Virginia Beach.  My service call charge is just $45… even on weekends and capicitors are between $65 and $89, depending on the size, so you do the math.

I will save you a lot of money on any and every ac repair.  Please, just give us a call.  And oh, Carrier has had their fair share of bad caps as well but the price is the same no matter what brand you have.. the part is universal so don’t pay out of this world prices for them!!