Originally Posted by
Kendall Goad
I am recommending in my report that a HVAC professional be contacted for further inspection and testing.
That just leave it open for them to tell your client that it does NOT need to be replaced, as 'Heck, you HI did not even think it needed replacing.'.
Instead, recommend it be replaced, HIs 'cannot require anything anyway', so do your client a favor and tell them it is old and needs to be replaced. Let someone else take it upon themselves to say otherwise.
This is what I used to say about old a/c systems:
Just like an old junker car, you can replace virtually every piece in that air handler or condenser unit, except unlike that old junker car, you don't end up with a "Classic Car", all you end up with is an old junker a/c unit with new parts, and there is nothing "Classic" about that.
Even a Classic 1960s Cadillac is still a "Gas Hog", it is just a "Pretty" "Gas Hog".
My clients like those descriptions because they could relate to them and understand the meaning behind them.