What we did
What started as a routine maintenance visit in Lancaster in September 2025 turned up a few problems worth catching early. This home runs on a heat pump system, and we went through it piece by piece.
Inside, we found a faulty capacitor on the blower motor. Outside, the contactor on the heat pump was worn out. Testing also showed that the compressor's performance was being affected by low refrigerant levels, and with the customer's approval we topped the refrigerant off. To finish, we verified that the system was operating properly and producing the right temperatures, making sure everything was functioning correctly before we left.
Capacitors and contactors are small parts, but they play a big role in starting and running the motors in a heat pump system, and a failing one can leave a home without heating or cooling at an inconvenient time. Finding them during maintenance is far easier than discovering them on a cold morning. In central Kentucky, a heat pump handles both summer cooling and winter heating, so it rarely gets a true off-season. Regular maintenance visits like this one are how small issues get handled before they become larger repairs, right here in our own hometown.
