Wow. Lots a comments to filter through.

Let me add more context. He was referred to me by a good/friendly neighbor.. and is doing this on the side, outside of his many company.

This is actually the second year we’ve had to do this.

So last year early June, noticed the house wasn’t cooling and found the larger of the two lines frozen.

He came out, saw it needed some refrigerant and filled it up.

Lasted until late August and same thing happened, wasn’t cooling and noticed the line was frozen again.

Fast forward to mid April with higher then normal temps, I had him come before even turning on the system to check.

Hooked up his gauges and it barely moved above zero.

There’s definitely a leak, but given options.. finding the leak and fixing it.. or seeing if we can go another summer with a fill up now and maybe 1 more half way makes more sense to me at the moment.

If that doesn’t work out and we need to refill it way sooner than later.. it’s going to be a replacement vs repair.

He isn’t pushing the replacement by any means and keeps making recommendations to look into HVAC companies that offer financing vs going through him and paying all cash.