{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-02T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/2026\/09\/02\/repair-or-replace-the-honest-maths\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:18:39","slug":"repair-or-replace-the-honest-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/2026\/09\/02\/repair-or-replace-the-honest-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair or replace: the honest maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost every caller wants one question settled: is this worth fixing? Here is the reasoning we use on site, with nothing held back.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The one-third rule<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a single repair costs more than a third of a replacement and the unit is past twelve years old, replacement usually wins on total cost within four years. Under ten years old with no prior failures, repair almost always wins.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What shifts the answer<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrigerant type matters: a system still running on R-22 is on borrowed time because the gas is no longer produced. So does the ductwork \u2014 a new unit bolted onto bad ducts inherits the same complaint. And if you expect to move within two or three years, the payback window never closes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rule of thumb every technician uses, written out with the numbers, so you can work it out before anyone visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repairs","tag-costs","tag-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-hvac-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}