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If you have some knowledge of how the modern air conditioner works, you may know it\u2019s a refrigerant-based system, working in a similar fashion to a refrigerator. To providing cooling, both systems use chemical refrigerant to absorb heat from inside and move the heat to the outside air. This is why the condenser unit outside your house blows out heated air when the AC is working.<\/p>\n
What neither system needs to work is ice<\/em>. It\u2019s easy to believe ice might be involved somehow\u2014after all, the air conditioner is sending out chilled air\u2014but it isn\u2019t the case. Moving heat from one place to another using refrigerant doesn\u2019t use ice. It shouldn\u2019t create it either.<\/p>\n Not at all. The reason this might happen is because of a reduction in how well the cold refrigerant moving through the coil and fins is removing heat from the air. If the refrigerant doesn\u2019t warm up from heat transferred from the air blowing across it, it will remain below freezing. As water vapor condenses and water collects on the coil (a natural part of the cooling process), the cold refrigerant will freeze it.<\/p>\n The presence of ice will further impede how well the refrigerant can absorb heat, which means more ice. Ice will continue to form over the coil and fins until the air conditioner can\u2019t remove any heat from the air, which means it will stop working as a cooling system. The ice can also warp and damage the coil.<\/p>\n There are a number of reasons for the evaporator coil to struggle to absorb heat and trigger ice development:<\/p>\n No, you can\u2019t scrape off the ice to solve this problem. This can damage the coil and still won\u2019t resolve the underlying problem. You must have professionals provide air conditioning system repair<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the air conditioning repair in Winnetka, IL<\/a> necessary to see your evaporator coil is cleared of ice\u2014and the core problem addressed\u2014contact our technicians. We offer 24-hour emergency service<\/a> for when you need your cooling restored on the double.<\/p>\n Malek Heating & Cooling has served Chicagoland since 1998.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are a number of reasons for the evaporator coil to struggle to absorb heat and trigger ice development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[127,92,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}So seeing ice on my AC\u2019s indoor coil isn\u2019t normal?<\/h3>\n
What causes this to happen?<\/h3>\n
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Seek the help of HVAC professionals<\/h3>\n