Your message has been sent successfully. We will contact you soon!
Air Conditioning & Heating Service
Lauderhill has a lot of multi-family and small condominium buildings, where the air handler is in a closet and the return is a single grille that was undersized the day it went in. That one detail explains a surprising share of the complaints we hear here.
We repair, maintain and install across the city. 954-321-6212.
Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM, Miami time. We are closed on Sunday.
Lauderhill sits in central Broward and grew mostly through the seventies and eighties, with a large share of townhouses, low-rise condos and single-family homes on modest lots. The equipment mirrors that mix, and so do the problems.
In the attached housing, the recurring issue is airflow. Closets designed to hold an air handler were designed for the air handler of 1978, and the units installed since are physically different: taller cabinets, different return positions.
The result is restriction, and restriction means poor cooling long before it means a broken part.
A cabinet from 1978 holding a unit built forty years later usually means the filter rack no longer sits where it was meant to, and a filter that does not seal in its slot lets air go around it rather than through it. Everything that filter was supposed to catch reaches the coil instead.
That is a five-minute check and it changes more than a duct cleaning would. In the attached housing we also look at where the return sits relative to the party wall.
We diagnose with instruments rather than by symptom. A house that will not cool can be a low charge, a restricted filter, a failing capacitor, a blocked drain that tripped a safety, or a duct system that gave up. Those are five different repairs at five different prices, and guessing between them is how people pay for two visits.
When we replace equipment in a closet-sized space, we measure the closet, the return path and the electrical supply before choosing the model. A unit that only just fits is a unit nobody can service properly later.
The heat in most Lauderhill homes is an electric strip inside the air handler, used for a couple of weeks a year and ignored for the rest of it. In the closet installations common here, the strip also gets the least air. A restricted return is a heating problem as well as a cooling one.
We test the elements and the sequencer during autumn maintenance. The first cold night is then not the test.
The box in that closet is an air handler rather than a furnace, and the difference between the two decides what can replace it.
Because the air is going around the filter, not through it. A rack that no longer fits the cabinet leaves a gap, and a gap is the path of least resistance for a blower.
Only if it fits and the blower can pull through it. In a tight closet a four-inch media filter often will not fit at all, and forcing a high-grade one-inch in its place costs airflow.
In this housing stock, almost always the air handler. The runs are short, and the coil, the drain and the filter seal are where the air actually gets its character.
