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Air Conditioning & Heating Service
Sunrise is inland Broward and large enough that its neighborhoods differ by decade. The common thread is the attic. Ductwork up there is working against a hundred and thirty degrees for half the year, and what leaks out of it never reaches the room it was meant for.
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Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM, Miami time. We are closed on Sunday.
Sunrise sits in west Broward, and most of it was built between the mid-seventies and the early nineties. That means single-story homes on concrete slab, air handlers tucked into garages or hallway closets, and duct runs through attics that reach well over a hundred degrees by two in the afternoon.
Attic ducts are the thing that defines air conditioning repair in Sunrise. Flex duct that has been up there for twenty-five years sags between its supports, the inner liner tears where it kinks, and the insulation compresses until it stops insulating. The system is then cooling the attic on its way to the bedrooms, and the homeowner is told they need a bigger unit when what they need is duct work.
We read static pressure across the air handler, temperature split across the coil, and the state of the return. On a Sunrise house the return is very often a single central grille sized for the original equipment, and when a later replacement went up a half ton, nobody enlarged it.
The blower then fights the house every time it runs, which costs capacity and shortens the motor's life.
Most of what fails here fails predictably: capacitors in July, contactors after a storm season of pitting, drain lines whenever the pan treatment runs out.
Compressor and coil work takes longer because it takes doing properly, and we will tell you plainly when a fifteen-year-old system has reached the point where repair money is better spent on replacement.
Where the platform under a garage unit was never sealed, the return takes garage air, and where the attic runs have aged the return takes attic air. Either way the filter is working on air that should not have arrived.
Sealing the return path is quick, cheap and measurable. We do that first and let the ducts prove they need anything.
Every decade of building here shares one attic problem, and the difference between cleaning duct and sealing it is where it gets solved.
It is two problems: the cabinet runs warmer than it should, and any gap in the platform pulls garage air into the system. Sealing the platform fixes the second and helps the first.
Because it is filtering more air than the room supplies. A leaking return brings in attic or garage air that never passed a filter before, and the one in the rack takes all of it.
Sometimes. Flex from the eighties has usually lost its liner in places. We open a run and show you which sections are sound before anyone quotes a whole system.
