{"id":310902,"date":"2026-06-17T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:46:09","slug":"fort-myers-ac-company-warns-of-hidden-summer-breakdowns-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310902\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers AC company warns of hidden summer breakdowns | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 As heat and humidity build, repair crews say problems inside air conditioning systems can build too.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After a couple of hours repairing it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=ac+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the AC unit<\/a> is finally working again. As Southwest Florida prepares for a few scorching days in a row, Big Air Heat and AC says the upcoming heat and humidity can expose problems before homeowners ever see them coming.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before the cold air comes back, you have to find the problem. A technician with the company offered advice for homeowners.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If you notice any significant corrosion around the bottom of it, you might want to get someone out there to check that out, see if it&#8217;s a small leak that might turn into a bigger one,&#8221; the technician said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That hum of a working AC is what homeowners are counting on as temperatures climb higher. The most frequent calls the company sees involve drain lines and capacitors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The high humidity really puts a toll on your drain line; it&#8217;s just a lot of water going through there 24\/7, which builds up slime inside the pipe,&#8221; Joseph Swafford said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Swafford is the owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigairac.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Air Heat and AC<\/a>. He says this is the time of year a neglected AC starts asking for attention\u2014more run time, more strain, more chances for the system to fail.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;As too much of it builds up and it gets stuck in a pocket or something like that, it&#8217;ll clog the drain line. No more water will be able to flow out, and then it&#8217;ll either overflow and cause water damage,&#8221; Swafford said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Right now, summer makes a simple demand: keep running. When a unit works nonstop in the heat, certain components face the greatest risk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;When a unit&#8217;s working nonstop in the heat, it&#8217;s usually going to be something like a motor or a capacitor. If it&#8217;s running non-stop, the motors can often overheat,&#8221; Swafford said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Big Air tells WINK News a working AC can still be an AC under stress. That&#8217;s why they want homeowners to check the basics before a small issue turns into a hot house and a higher bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 As heat and humidity build, repair crews say problems inside air conditioning systems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-310902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}