Services · Air conditioning
AC installation and repair
Massachusetts summers are short but they're humid, and the hot weeks are miserable without working AC. We install central air sized for this climate, and we fix it when it quits.
Installation
Sized for humidity, not just heat.
Here's the counterintuitive part of cooling in New England: bigger is usually worse. An oversized AC blasts the temperature down and shuts off before it wrings the moisture out of the air, leaving the house cold and clammy at the same time. Around here, managing humidity is half the job.
So we size cooling the same way we size heat — with a load calculation, not a rule of thumb. We check your ductwork while we're at it, because leaky supply runs through a hot attic can quietly throw away a chunk of the cooling you're paying for. Sealing and repairing ducts is part of our work when the numbers call for it.
If your house has no ducts at all,ductless mini-splits are usually the better answer than cutting central air into an old building. And if you're replacing both heating and cooling equipment at once, it's worth pricing a cold-climate heat pump that does both jobs before buying a cooling-only system.
Repair
When the AC quits in a heat wave
Two things are worth checking before you call anyone: the breaker panel, and the air filter. A tripped breaker or a filter clogged enough to freeze the coil causes a surprising share of "dead" AC calls, and we'd rather tell you that for free.
If it's neither, call us. The usual culprits — failed capacitors, refrigerant leaks, iced-up coils, dead condenser fan motors — are diagnosable in one visit, and we carry the common parts on the truck. We service all major brands, and emergency repair is available around the clock, every day of the year.
Repair or replace?
Our rule of thumb, stated plainly: a central AC system in this climate typically gives you somewhere around twelve to fifteen years. If yours is in that range and facing an expensive repair — a compressor, a coil — replacement usually wins the math. If your system predates 2010, it likely runs on a refrigerant that's been phased out, which makes every leak repair cost more than it should. We'll give you the repair price and the replacement price side by side and let you decide.
Cool house, straight price
Tell us what's going on with your heat or AC. We'll come out, take real measurements, and give you a straight number in writing — no pressure, no mystery line items.