This will probably sound like a very strange question. This morning my air conditioner was frozen up. I let it thaw and called the maintenance man, who checked the outside unit and said the coils were completely clogged with dirt and debris. I asked how it could have happened, and he said that the landscaping crew might have accidentally blown dirt into the coils. The landscape crew comes out on Thurs, so that would have been 5 days ago, and the AC unit was working well until this morning. He also had cleaned the coils outside mid-July, so this wasn't a buildup over time. My neighbor's air conditioning unit sits about two feet from mine and did not have the same problem.
Does it sound possible for the AC unit to take 5 days to freeze up, or is it more likely that the dirty coils would have caused it to freeze up within a day or two? It runs fairly constantly because we keep it set on 72 and most days the outdoor temp is 95-100.
A neighbor who I had problems with in the past was evicted yesterday and I'm wondering if that neighbor could have had anything to do with my air conditioner problem...not that I would retaliate in any way, I just wonder if I need to be on the lookout for future problems.
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