AC Repair

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Your system stopped. Let's find out why.

Most no-cool calls come down to a short list of causes, and the only way to know which one is to measure. A Thornquil technician arrives with the instruments to test the system under load, tells you what failed, and quotes the repair as a flat price before touching a wrench.

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Which of these is happening?

Pick the one that matches and it carries straight into the booking form with the answer attached.

What's happening?

What a technician checks

It's running, but the air isn't cold

Temperature split across the indoor coil, measured under load
Refrigerant charge verified against the equipment's own target
Airflow and filter restriction — a starved system cannot cool
Whether the outdoor unit is running when the thermostat calls

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Your answer carries into the booking form — you will not be asked again.

What you get

What the visit actually includes.

A measured diagnosis, not a guess
Static pressure, temperature split, superheat and subcool, amp draw on the compressor and blower, capacitor values under load. Numbers, not impressions.
The findings in writing
Photos of what we found, the readings we took, the part that failed, and why it failed. You keep the report whether or not you book the repair.
A flat repair price, quoted first
One number, agreed before work starts. No hourly meter running while you decide, and no second number after the fact.
Common parts on the truck
Capacitors, contactors, float switches, fan motors and the usual control components ride with the technician, so the majority of repairs finish on the first visit.

How we work

The sequence, every time.

Confirm the symptom
We start where you started — what you saw, when it began, whether anything changed. Intermittent faults are solved by history as often as by instruments.
Test the system under load
Readings at the air handler, at the condenser, and at the thermostat, with the system running. A system that is 'working' at idle can still be failing at 3pm in August.
Isolate the actual failure
A tripped float switch is a symptom of a blocked drain. A burned contactor is a symptom of something else drawing too much. We look for the cause, not just the part.
Quote, then repair
You see the price and the reasoning before we start. If the honest answer is that the repair is not worth doing, we say so and show you the arithmetic.

Gulf Coast specifics

Why this work is different here.

Salt air, humidity, attic temperatures and a cooling season that runs most of the year. All four change what fails, how early, and what is worth doing about it.

Salt-air corrosion on coastal condensers
Within a few miles of the water, condenser coils and electrical contacts corrode measurably faster. It changes what fails, how early, and whether a coil is worth repairing.
Drain lines are the usual suspect
Warm, humid air over a cold coil produces a lot of condensate, and biological growth in the drain line is the single most common reason a Southwest Florida system shuts itself down or leaks.
Attic air handlers in 130-degree attics
A lot of local equipment lives in an unconditioned attic. Heat there shortens the life of capacitors and control boards, and it makes a small duct leak expensive.
Systems that never get a break
Cooling load here runs most of the year. Equipment accumulates run-hours faster than the same model would further north, and maintenance intervals should reflect that.

Questions

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My system is frozen — should I turn it off?

If you can see ice on the refrigerant lines or the indoor coil, switching the system to OFF and leaving the fan running will let it thaw, which we will need anyway before anything can be tested. Do not try to chip or melt the ice. Book the visit while it thaws.

Can you tell me what's wrong over the phone?

We can usually tell you what it is not, and roughly what the visit will involve. We will not quote a repair sight-unseen — a phone diagnosis is a guess with a price attached, and it is how people end up paying for parts they did not need.

What if the repair isn't worth it?

Then that is what the report says. We show the repair cost, the age and condition of the equipment, and what replacement would involve, and you decide. There is no obligation attached to the diagnostic.

Do you work on systems you didn't install?

Yes. Most repair calls are on equipment installed by someone else, and it makes no difference to how the visit runs.