Air Conditioning Installation and Repair in Greater Vancouver
Vancouver summers stopped being something you can wait out. We size, install, repair and tune air conditioning for homes and businesses across the Lower Mainland — central systems, ductless mini-splits and rooftop equipment — and we book tune-ups in spring so the first hot week of the year is not the first time the system runs.
Coil in the air handler, or ductless?
Where you already have ducts and a furnace in sound condition, adding an evaporator coil to the existing air handler is usually the cheaper route to cooling: one outdoor unit, a coil, a line set and a drain. Ductless costs more per zone, but you only pay to cool the rooms you name, and it does not depend on the condition of the ductwork. The comparison worth making is total installed cost against the rooms you actually use — a two or three head ductless system often lands near a central install while cooling the spaces that matter better. Where both are real options we price both, and we tell you which one we would put in.
Why a tune-up in April beats a repair in July
Air conditioning fails under load, which means it fails on the hottest day of the year, when every contractor in the Lower Mainland is already booked. A spring service catches the faults that cause those failures — a dirty condenser, a weak capacitor, a slow refrigerant leak, a blocked condensate drain — while parts are available and the schedule is open. It is the least interesting money you will spend on the system and the most effective.
The ductwork was sized for heat, not for cooling
Cooling wants noticeably more airflow than heating does, and the ducts in most older Lower Mainland homes were laid out for a furnace alone. Put a cooling coil into that system and static pressure climbs: the blower strains, airflow across the coil falls, the coil ices up, and the rooms furthest from the air handler never catch up. We measure static pressure before quoting rather than after the complaint, and we say plainly when a duct alteration has to be part of the job. The electrical service deserves the same check — a compressor is a new load, and if the panel or the breaker space will not carry it, that belongs on the quote instead of turning up on install day.
Air Conditioning — common questions
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In this climate a heat pump is usually the better buy: it is the same cooling equipment with heating added. If you have a sound gas furnace and only want cooling, a straight AC system can still be cheaper to install. We quote both when both make sense.
A single-zone ductless install is typically one day. A central system tied into existing ductwork is usually one to two days. Multi-zone systems and anything needing electrical or duct changes take longer, and the schedule is on your written quote before we start.
We tell you what the repair costs, what it buys you in remaining life, and what a replacement would cost, then you decide. On an old system with a failed compressor or an obsolete refrigerant, replacing usually wins. On most other faults, repairing does.
Yes. We look after office, retail and hospitality cooling as well as rooftop package units, and we schedule commercial work outside your operating hours wherever the job allows.
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