A/C guy just left... sure enough, they had to charge it up, and no charge to me! He hooked up a meter to the hot pipe and subcooled to 14. Checked the air at the lowest, farthest register and was getting a nice cool flow. Now, it IS only 75 degrees, so we'll see later this weekend when it's supposed to get close to 100...

Again, many many thanks to you's guys!!!

Update to the saga.... My house did NOT cool down over the weekend. In fact, the air was muggier and stuffier than it was outside. So I called this clown back and he said he would NOT come back without charging me another $49.95 service call ON TOP of any work he would need to do, if anything.

So I called another company. This guy was a bit older, and walked me step by step on what he was doing, showed me where the gauges should be reading... After cleaning the condenser fins real good, checking the unit in the attic, and reading the temps at the registers in EVERY ROOM (which the other company never did), he found I was still close to 3 pounds short on freon!!!! He told me how much it was going to cost and after some thought, I told him to go ahead. Once he added more, we went back and read the temps and they were substantially lower. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!! Initial readings were from 68 to 75 and afterwards, temps were from 53 to 58!!!!

I immediately called the credit card company and told them to NOT pay the charge to the first guy... I'm still waiting to hear from him, as I left a message with his wife... RIPOFF JERKS!!!

Its guys like that who give the industry a bad name!! good call on finding a "seasoned vet" to come and check things out for you!!!

sounds like all the other guys did was charge it quick and didnt let it stablize before he tookt he guages off!

Wow, so the guy came back out and still didn't charge the system up properly?

I'm thinking he must not have know how to charge it properly. He probably trained the first guy who came out and took the stuff out of the system.

Yeah, R-22 is somewhat expensive, about $3 per pound, but what guy in is right mind would ever drive to your house on a return call, then not fix it right if all it costs is $10 worth of freon. If he knowingly undercharged it by 3 lbs, then he lost a customer for life over $10 - that doesn't make sense.

We have been close to 100 the last couple days, and it's been staying at the set temp per the thermostat setting, or slightly above, later in the afternoon! It's even cycling off and on throughout the day, which is going to save me alot of $$$ I think it's working better than it ever has!
Without a doubt! I will want someone to come out and service the heat portion of the unit very soon... guess who I'm NOT calling? Still haven't heard from him!