Why systems struggle
A hundred days above ninety, and nine months in which a system quietly proves whether its ductwork was ever right.
- 1 Thermostat. Where the season’s mileage actually accumulates.
- 2 Return and filter. Undersized in half the retrofits, and the reason the far room never cools.
- 3 Air handler and furnace. The part of the system Alabama barely uses, and almost never checks.
- 4 Coil and condensate drain. Liters of Gulf moisture a day, all leaving through one narrow line.
- 5 Attic ducts. Conditioned air, routed through the hottest space in the building.
- 6 Outdoor unit. Where a Gulf-coast August decides which capacitors see another summer.
The six
A hundred days of load
A hundred-day cooling season that ages equipment by the hour. Gulf air that makes drying the house half of every cooling job and hands its moisture to one narrow drain. Ducts crossing attics that bake all summer. A heat wave every August that culls capacitors by the thousand. And a furnace asked to wake, unserviced, on the first cold morning. The box takes the blame for what the loop did.