Most air conditioners use one of two types of refrigerant: R-22 or R-410A. I've never paid any attention to this detail while inspecting houses because it didn't make much difference, but that's all ...

BROOKFIELD -- You may not know the chemical used in your A/C, but that may soon change. The U.S. government will soon stop the manufacturing of a chemical, eating away at the ozone. It is called 'R-22 ...

NON-FLOODED USE: ComStar’s RS-44b can be used to replace R-22 in all non-flooded, high-, medium-, and low-temperature systems down to minus 20°F evaporating temperature. June 29, 2020 While it became ...

The year 2020 will capture attention for being an election year and perhaps for the summer Olympics in Tokyo. On the homeownership side of things, however, it’s the year that an old ozone-eating ...

Homeowners who have an air-conditioning system installed before 2010 could be in for a shock when their unit needs more Freon. While Freon, the Dupont/Chemours Co. brand name for the refrigerant R-22, ...

One option available to all competent service technicians to stretch the life of refrigerants is to recover and recycle refrigerant. By now, most of us in the HVACR industry are aware of and have been ...

Beginning on January 1, 2020, producing or importing R22 freon will become illegal in the United States. Given the refigerant’s ozone-damaging properties, the move is the latest step in the EPA’s ...

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Because of a proposed revision late last year by the Environmental Protection Agency concerning the availability of R-22 refrigerant, “there’s a very good possibility the R-22 ...

Most air conditioners use one of two types of refrigerant: R-22 or R-410A. Here at Structure Tech, we started paying close attention to this detail during our home inspections about three years ago, ...

BROOKFIELD -- You may not know the chemical used in your A/C, but that may soon change. The U.S. government will soon stop the manufacturing of a chemical, eating away at the ozone. It is called 'R-22 ...