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Homes in north Orange County
Bungalows, ranch houses and everything built since, across Fullerton, Brea, Placentia and La Habra.
What people call about
- It is not cooling
Capacitor, contactor, a tripped safety, a condenser coil that needs cleaning, or a drain switch doing its job. Common parts are on the van and the price is written before we start.
- One room is always wrong
Duct run, a crushed flex, or a return path the closed door cuts off. We measure at the register before recommending equipment.
- The heating smells for the first hour
Normal at the start of the season. Not normal in February, and we check the heat exchanger and the flue rather than telling you it is dust.
- The bill climbed
Coil condition, duct leakage, or a system running much longer per cycle than it should. All three are measurable and none needs new equipment to diagnose.
- It is twenty years old
We say what it has left and what to budget, in writing. When replacement is the answer, it gets permitted and tested like anything else.
Duct work is the cheapest real improvement in most of these houses
A lot of the housing stock here delivers its cooling through ducts in an attic or a crawlspace that were put in decades ago and have never been tested. Leaking joints and disconnected boots lose air you paid to cool before it ever reaches a room.
California's energy standards happen to agree: duct leakage testing is commonly required when duct work is substantially altered. It is the one place where the paperwork and the good idea are the same thing.
Two calls that go elsewhere first
- A carbon monoxide alarm soundingEverybody out of the house, then call 911 or the gas utility from outside. Not us first, and do not go back in to open windows.
- A smell of gasThe same. Leave the appliance alone, get out, ring from outside.
Once it has been made safe we will come and find out what caused it.
If you are selling, the paperwork surfaces
An open permit, or equipment changed without one, tends to come up at exactly the wrong moment. It is usually resolvable, and it is far easier to deal with before a buyer's agent raises it than during escrow.
We will tell you what we can see about what was installed and when, and what closing it out would involve. What your city requires is their call — the permits page lists the questions to ask them.