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csziggy

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5. You can still get the old type freon - but it isway expensive

Reply to Crutchez_CuiBono (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 11:36 PM

Aug 2018

My AC guy told me that a bottle that used to cost $40 now is over $400. Sometime in the next few years I will be replacing my system - it has leaked for years and it's now getting too expensive to keep refilling it.

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I need to buy an air conditioner or two. [View all] no_hypocrisy Aug 2018 OP

Apparently theres a new type of coolant in the new ones that the repair people are Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #1

You can still get the old type freon - but it isway expensive csziggy Aug 2018 #5

Gouging bc they can. MAKE MORE. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #6

I live in the mountains of New Mexico... chillfactor Aug 2018 #2

My wife found two air conditioners last year at Goodwill. Kablooie Aug 2018 #3

it's not end of summer here dweller Aug 2018 #4

FYI discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2018 #7

I remember Walmart running a special on window AC units in early May FakeNoose Mar 2019 #8