The cause of you AC freezing up is not enough air flow over the coils. Iam not sure if you are tlaking about a window air conditioning unit or an outdoor unit. If it is a window unit your filter is plugged or there is something blocking the intake, this could be inside or outside. If it is an outdoor unit then your compressor fan may not be working, the unit may be sized too large or once again your filter needs changing or something is blocking the intake.
the indoor unit will freeze when there is low air flow due to a dirty filter,dirty coil, fan not spinning, or the a/c unit could be low on refrigerant charge.
Unit needs to be sloping outside and make sure the drain hole on the outside is not plugged up.
As long as the patio is well vented to the outside.A window AC unit will only cool about 30 degrees cooler than the outside air, and if the patio is not vented, the patio will warm up and make the AC pointless.
its low on freon have it charged
there is probally a small freon leak in the system this can be cost prohibitive if unit is more than 5 years old
Because the fan is designed to splash the water on the condensor to cool it down better. This is how higher EER ratios are achieved, up to 11 or 12 in the modern window AC units.
Yes, of course. I opened mine up and found tiny people and lots of snow inside. A magical world isn't it?
Turn off the unit and let them unfreeze then turn the unit back on and see if the pipes freeze up again if so you need to contact an AC repair there's something wrong with the unit. If its constanly running this is one cause of it freezing up. Turn up the thermostat so it doesn't run as much this should help
My air unit was freezing up i took a brush very carefully and cleaned the A coil and washed it out it fixed my problem.
Call a ac repair man if the central air is freezing up. It more then likely is the coils are clogged which they have special chemicals to clean or it needs more Freon.
It could be either a leaking heater core or the a/c system is freezing up..........