FIG. 05·Maintenance · Phoenix
Maintenance
Two visits a year, before the cooling season and before the heating one. The point is to find the failure in April rather than meet it in July.
When to call
What it looks like from your side.
- A system that has not been looked at since it was installed
- A condenser coil packed with dust after monsoon season
- A filter nobody can remember changing
- A capacitor at the age where they fail, which is most of them by year eight
The method
How we do it.
The price is agreed before we start, and it does not move.
01
Spring visit: everything that fails in a heatwave
Coil washed, capacitor tested under load rather than just measured, contactor inspected, charge verified, condensate line cleared and airflow checked. Capacitors and contactors are cheap in April and are the two most common July failures.
02
Autumn visit: heating and the drain
Heat operation checked, safeties verified, drain pan and float switch tested. A blocked condensate line is what puts water through a ceiling, and it is preventable in ten minutes.
03
You get the readings, not a sticker
Every visit produces the same measurements written down, so you can see a system drifting year over year instead of finding out when it stops. No automatic renewal and no pressure to buy anything on the day.
Questions
About maintenance.
Does a maintenance plan actually save money?
It reliably prevents some failures — a washed coil and a tested capacitor genuinely change the odds. It does not prevent all of them, and anybody promising you it does is selling. The honest case is fewer emergencies and a system that reaches its expected life.
How often should I change the filter here?
More often than the box says, because of the dust. A one-inch filter in a Phoenix home is usually a 60 to 90 day item, and closer to 30 during monsoon season.
Book it
Get maintenance scheduled.
A written price before anything starts. If the house has no cooling right now, call instead of filling this in.
Also serving
Other services
What else we do.
Dispatch
No cooling right now?
June through September a person answers around the clock, and there is no after-hours rate. If anyone in the house is vulnerable to the heat, say so when you call.