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Depends on the season and how booked we are. Give us a call and we'll tell you exactly when we can be there.

$129. That covers the trip and a full diagnosis. Approve the repair while we're there and it comes off that bill. On a replacement it comes off if you go ahead within 30 days. If you already know you're replacing and don't need anything diagnosed, the quote is free.

Yes. Give us a call and we'll get out to you if we can. We can't promise same-night, but we'll tell you straight away what's realistic. There's a $200 after-hours charge for evenings and Saturdays, and we'll say so before we come out. Sundays we're with our families, back Monday morning.

The South Denver metro, including Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Centennial, Lone Tree, Castle Rock, and Parker. If you're just outside it, call us anyway, there's a good chance we can still get to you.

Yes, we're an authorized contractor for several of the major ones. We diagnose it, file the claim, and handle our side of the back-and-forth with them. You pay your service fee straight to them, not to us. Worth knowing: what your plan covers is their call, not ours. We'll tell you exactly what we found and what we sent them, and we'll push for you, but they decide.

Your plan decides what's covered. The rest, what warranty companies call non-covereds, is usually things like refrigerant, permits, code upgrades or hauling the old equipment away. Your plan sets that list, not us. We price it out, send it over, and they tell you what's yours.

If they deny the whole claim, you're only out the service fee you paid them. We don't add a charge of our own for the visit.

Call or text us and we'll tell you exactly where it stands. A claim moves through a few steps: we diagnose and send our report, your plan reviews it and decides what's covered, parts get ordered, and then we schedule the repair. Whichever step yours is on, we'll tell you what it is and what comes next.

Most repairs we finish on the same visit. Sometimes a part has to be ordered, either because it's not something we stock or because your warranty company orders it themselves. That means a second trip. We'll tell you what it needs, let you know as soon as the part's in, and if you're on a deadline, we'll lay out any faster options and what they'd cost.

If it's not working, go ahead and shut it off. One exception: if there's ice on the lines or barely any air coming out, it's probably frozen. In that case turn the cooling off but leave the fan on, a few hours before we get there if you can. That gives the ice time to melt so we can check everything properly. If it's still running fine and we're just coming for a tune-up, leave it alone.

Yes and no. We don't care about the mess. People apologize for their basements all the time, and we've seen worse. Much worse. We do care about reaching the equipment, so anything piled against the furnace needs to scoot. Everything else can stay right where it is.

Somewhere it can actually shut off. A properly sized system around Denver is designed to hold about 75 when it's in the low 90s outside, and on those days it'll run most of the day doing it. When it's over 100, expect a few degrees warmer. Setting it way lower won't cool the house any faster, it just runs nonstop, and long nonstop runs are when coils tend to ice up.

Check it once a month and change it when it looks dirty. Some homes go through them quick, others go a few months. A clogged one starves the system of air, and that's when the coil ices up and you get no cooling at all.

That's usually a frozen system, and it's one of the most common things we see around Denver. Often it's something simple, like a dirty filter or a hot day with the thermostat set low. Sometimes it's bigger.

Turn the cooling off but leave the fan on. Pull the filter out and give it a few hours to thaw. Then put a fresh filter in and set it to 75 or higher. The frozen ones we see are usually set to 70 or lower. If it still ices up at 75, it's not the setting, and it's worth a call.

If yours keeps doing it, or you just like it colder than the system wants to run, there's a control we can add that shuts the system off before ice can build up. Ask us about it.

Yes, measurably. The air up here is about 15 percent thinner than at sea level, and thinner air carries less heat. Gas furnaces are set up for altitude by code, following the manufacturer's high-altitude instructions. Cooling equipment gives up a few percent of capacity for every thousand feet of elevation, which is one reason systems run long here on hot days. Thinner air also leaves airflow less margin, so the filter matters more at altitude than most people realize: a restriction you might get away with at sea level is how coils ice up here. It's why we talk about filters so much, and why equipment should be sized and set up for this elevation, not sea level.

All the major ones, Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and just about anything else, at any age.

Swamp coolers, no. Mini-splits we install but don't repair. The bulk of our work is central AC and gas and electric furnaces, and we know ducted heat pumps well.

No. What stopped back in 2020 was making and importing new R-22. Servicing existing systems with recovered or reclaimed R-22 is still fully legal, and we still work on them. Supply gets tighter every year, so it costs more than it used to. Whether yours is worth fixing or replacing depends on the shape it's in. If someone told you it's illegal and quoted you a whole new system, call us for a second opinion.

Same deal. Nothing about having it means you need a new system, and we can still repair it. New air conditioners and heat pumps built since 2025 use a different refrigerant, and R-410A production is being phased down on a federal schedule. As with R-22, if the refrigerant is the only reason someone quoted you a replacement, have us take a look first.

Yes. Hire us directly and installs are covered for a year, repairs for 90 days. If something we did isn't right, we make it right. It covers our workmanship, not parts supplied by you or a warranty company, and warranty repairs follow that plan's own terms. Full terms are on every estimate and invoice.

Yes. We hold contractor licenses across the South Denver metro and we're insured. When a job needs a permit, we're licensed with that building department before we pull it. Everyone who handles refrigerant here is EPA Section 608 certified. Happy to send our certificate if you need it.