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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thor447" data-source="post: 3815947" data-attributes="member: 24867"><p>I feel your pain.  I bought a brand new house in 2011 and moved in during the peak of summer.  Couldn't get the house to cool down after 2 days of having everything closed up after the move.  Turns out the contractor put in a vastly underpowered unit.  With the updated seer ratings for the HE systems they said that it was to spec but the house would not cool down.  I spent around $6k on a completely new top to bottom Bryant unit.  Overpaid at the time because I got next day installation during the peak of the season, but the AC's been doing very well for the past 11 years.  The only thing that's happened is it blew a capacitor on the condenser.  Luckily for me I was able to fix it with a $15 part.  6K up front cost, but my highest cooling bill that I can remember was around $175.</p></blockquote><p></p>