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Air Conditioning & Heating Service
Wilton Manors is small, close to us, and full of older homes that have been renovated more than once. Ductwork in a house like that is often a record of every previous owner's decisions, and it rarely adds up to a balanced system. Measuring it settles arguments quickly.
Call 954-321-6212 or send the form for a free estimate.
Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM, Miami time. We are closed on Sunday.
Wilton Manors is a small city surrounded by Fort Lauderdale, and it has the housing stock to match its age: compact single-family homes from the fifties and sixties, on small lots, many of them renovated more than once. The renovations are the interesting part, because HVAC work done during a remodel is not always done by an HVAC contractor.
Rooms added without any supply, returns blocked by a wall that went up in someone's 2008 kitchen project, and condensers relocated to fit a new patio without regard to clearance are common in houses renovated over the decades. None of that looks like a broken part. It looks like a house that never quite cools and a system that wears out early.
A common problem here is slow refrigerant loss. A system low on charge still cools, just not well, and homeowners live with it for months. Topping it up without finding the leak is money poured into the air. We locate the leak first, tell you where it is and what fixing it involves, and only then talk about charge.
Leaks at the coil, at flare fittings and along the line set behind a wall all need different work, and the difference matters to what it costs and how long it lasts.
Condensers here often sit in narrow side yards. Manufacturers specify clearances for a reason, and a unit boxed in by a fence and a hedge recirculates its own hot air. Moving it a couple of feet sometimes fixes a performance complaint on its own.
A failed compressor is the point at which the conversation stops being about a part. On a system under ten years old with a sound coil and a clean line set, replacing the compressor is reasonable work. On an older one that lost its charge slowly for a year, the compressor is the symptom rather than the cause, and a new one fitted to the same leaking system fails the same way.
We tell you which of the two you have before quoting either, because the difference between them runs to several thousand dollars.
Every renovation leaves its mark on the duct, and the places a house leaks air is a list of them.
Nearly always. A room added without a supply, or with one teed off a run that was already at its limit, cannot be fixed by cleaning. It needs a resized branch or its own ductless head.
A great deal. If the path back to the air handler was changed during a remodel, the blower is starved and the pressure readings show it long before a part fails.
If the registers were open during the work, yes. Construction dust is fine enough to stay airborne for weeks and it returns to the room every time the blower starts.
