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OK, the first guy that they called kept sounding less and less like it was a bad deal. It turns out that I had gotten bad info. The AC guy told the son-in-law, son-in-law told daughter, and daughter told me, so in the retelling, things had gotten jumbled. The $5600 estimate was a worst case scenario of indoor unit, outdoor unit, ducting, etc... using American Standard gear instead of Goodman. Not that I think that they needed all of that, but that wasn't really the guy's estimate. Today, they were still waiting for an estimate today, and the estimate was supposed to be for a 4ton goodman unit. They still haven't received that estimate so they called another company. Earlier today, the coordinator took their info, the tech called back 30 mins later, and they've already got an estimate. THe tech lives in their neighborhood. He told them that they should just get the leak(s) fixed. It's going to be $1200 to fix, evac and recharge, and he's going to do it Monday while they are at work.

The one guy did eventually come back and tell them that they had a 4 ton indoor unit an a 5 ton outdoor, so they were going to downsize. I'd never heard that the indoor units were measured in tons. 5 tons actually sounds a bit big for their house, but they aren't looking to replace anything, and it's been working, so it's going to stay.