Air Conditioning

When your air conditioner stops keeping up, the temperature is only half the story. A system can run all day and still leave your house cold and clammy, or cool the living room while the upstairs bedrooms stay stuffy. Those are different problems with different fixes, and the first thing we do is figure out which one you actually have before quoting anything.

AC repair

Most cooling calls trace back to a short list of causes, and a lot of them are inexpensive if they are caught early. A bulging capacitor, a low refrigerant charge from a slow leak, a clogged condensate drain, or a dirty coil can all leave you sweating on a Saturday. We diagnose the real cause, show it to you, and quote a flat price before we start.

• Weak or no cooling on the hottest days
• The house feels cold but damp, a classic sign of an oversized or short-cycling system
• Water pooling near the indoor unit from a clogged condensate line
• The outdoor unit runs but the fan or compressor will not start
• Ice forming on the refrigerant lines or coil
• Rooms that never cool evenly no matter where you set the thermostat

A refrigerant leak is worth a special note. Topping off a low system without finding the leak just pays to cool the outdoors, so we find and fix the cause rather than selling you a refill every summer. If your bills have crept up alongside the weak cooling, our guide on why summer utility bills run high is a good place to start.

Spring tune-ups

The cheapest cooling repair is the one you prevent. A proper spring tune-up clears and cleans the condenser, checks the refrigerant charge, cleans the coils, flushes the drain, and tests the electrical parts that fail in the heat, like the capacitor. We would rather find a weak part in April than have you call us on the first ninety-degree Saturday in July. Our full spring AC tune-up checklist lays out exactly what a real visit covers and what you can handle yourself.

New AC, sized right

When it is time for a new system, size is the single most important decision, and it is the one most commonly gotten wrong. Bigger is not better. An oversized air conditioner cools the thermostat fast, shuts off before it has wrung the humidity out of the air, and leaves you with a cold, clammy house while the compressor wears itself out short-cycling. We run a Manual J load calculation that accounts for your insulation, windows, ceiling height, and how the sun hits your house, so the equipment matches your real cooling load. Our guide on what size AC your house needs walks through why this matters so much.

Efficiency is the other piece. New systems carry a SEER2 rating, and higher means lower running cost but a higher price up front. In our short northern cooling season the payback math is different than it is down south, so we help you find the honest sweet spot rather than selling you the biggest number on the shelf. Our plain-English explainer on SEER2 ratings cuts through the jargon.

Straight pricing, either way

Whether it is a ten-minute capacitor swap or a full system replacement, you get a flat price before the work starts and a technician who is not paid on commission. That is the same promise on the cooling side as the heating side, and it is why so many Lansing families use us for both.