The Refrigerant Changeover: A Homeowner's Field Guide to R-410A, R-454B, and What Your Repair Quote Actually Means - Softcover

Johnson, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798174756878

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The deadline everyone told you about no longer exists.

In 2024 the EPA said you had until January 1, 2026 to install an air conditioner using R-410A. Contractors repeated it. Trade publications ran it. Cost calculators were built around it.

In May 2026 the EPA removed that deadline entirely — and almost nobody noticed. Search the subject today and you will still find the old version, published confidently, dated this year, and wrong.

This book was written against the primary sources: the EPA's own rules, fact sheets and sector tables, not the coverage of them.

What you will learn

• Why your existing system is not on a clock, and what you can still legally repair — indefinitely
• Why one source says refrigerant costs four dollars a pound and another says a hundred and fifty, and which number applies to your quote
• What R-454B and R-32 actually are, and why the choice matters less than you have been told
• The single question that separates a sound replacement recommendation from a sales pitch
• Why the federal tax credit you may be counting on expired on December 31, 2025
• How long R-410A will really be available, measured against what happened during the R-22 phase-out
• What a leak actually costs to find and fix, and why recharging without fixing it is a subscription rather than a repair

Written for the moment you are standing in your driveway holding a quote.

Twenty-two chapters, four appendices, and a plain answer to the question every homeowner is being given a different answer to.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798174756878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103