Low hundreds, flat, quoted when you book. Folded into a maintenance plan with the fall heating visit, the per visit cost drops and priority scheduling plus repair discounts ride along. The scope is the full instrumented list on this page either way, never a rinse with a sticker.

A real visit runs about an hour, longer for older equipment or difficult access. Anyone done in twenty minutes cleaned nothing and measured less. The coil cleaning alone, done properly with the top pulled, takes longer than some companies’ entire “tune ups”.

Spring, ideally before the first heat wave: March through May in most climates. That timing tests the system under load, fixes findings at calm prices, and enters summer with everything measured. Fall works as a second choice; the day after a breakdown is the only genuinely wrong answer on the calendar.

Usually 5 to 15 percent when there is real dirt or charge drift to correct, less when the system was already clean, and the report tells you which happened. The honest framing: maintenance defends the efficiency you already bought, and neglect quietly taxes it through every single runtime hour of the season.

The majority of them, yes, because heat wave failures cluster in exactly the parts the visit tests: capacitors, contactors, charge, drains, and airflow. Our plan members’ emergency call rate versus walk-ins is the internal proof. Nothing prevents everything in a machine full of moving parts; measurement, applied annually, prevents most things worth preventing.

Yes, both, with their own checklists: heat pumps get defrost and reversing valve verification since they work year round, and mini splits get blower wheel and condensate attention since their heads live in finished rooms. Same instruments, same written report, same flat pricing.

You get the reading that found it, a photo when it photographs, a flat price, and an honest urgency rating. Nothing is replaced without approval, watch items are genuinely allowed to be watched, and big findings come with the evidence to get a second opinion, which we encourage rather than fear.

Most manufacturers require documented annual service for major claims, and they ask for the records exactly when the claim is expensive. Our reports create that trail automatically, dated and stored. It is the least glamorous benefit of the visit and occasionally the most valuable one.

Service is scheduled measurement on a healthy system; repair is response to a failed one, and the entire strategy of this page is converting the second into the first. An ac service visit that finds a weak part and swaps it calmly in April is the same transaction as a July emergency, minus the queue, the premium, and the sweat.

Yes, and landlords are some of our steadiest plan members: scheduled visits per unit, reports per address, and a documented history that protects both the equipment and the habitability conversation. One contact, all properties, and tenants get the direct booking line for anything mid season.

Twelve months after install, and then annually. The first visit verifies the installation is aging the way the commissioning report promised, records the young system baseline every later reading gets compared against, and keeps the registration terms satisfied from day one. New equipment forgives neglect the longest and rewards documentation the most.

Of course, and it is half our maintenance book. The first visit doubles as an onboarding: full measurements, photos, filter sizes recorded, and any installation quirks documented without editorializing about whoever left them. From then on your system has a current ledger, whichever logo was on the original box.

Because it was a marketing visit priced to get a truck in your driveway, and the fifteen minutes were spent locating things to quote. The tell is what was measured: if no capacitor readings, no superheat and subcool, no static pressure, and no written numbers came back to you, nothing was inspected in any sense an engineer would recognize. Real ac maintenance produces data you can hold, and the hour it takes is where the value lives.