Our AC maintenance agreement is $169 a year for two visits: spring for your AC and fall for your heating. The visits clear organic buildup from the coils and make sure the drain lines are clear, which cuts down on emergency calls.
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In Houston, an air conditioner runs about nine months of the year. Every time the outdoor unit cycles on, its fan pulls in dust, dirt, pollen and debris, and over a season that buildup packs into the outdoor coil. A clogged coil blocks the airflow the system needs to push heat out of your house, so the system has to work harder and can fail early.
Cottonwood trees make it worse. The fluff they drop every spring piles up on outdoor coils fast. Owner Chris Crawford once pulled out an outdoor unit whose coil was completely covered in cottonwood. His estimate is that yearly maintenance would have given that system another three or four years.
On the spring AC visit, the technician:
Hooks gauges to the copper refrigerant lines to read pressures and temperatures and confirm the system has the right amount of refrigerant.
Checks the contactor, which carries high voltage from your home to the parts inside the outdoor unit.
Tests the capacitor that starts the compressor and the fan motor, and flags it for replacement if it's losing its charge.
Measures how much current the compressor and the fan motor pull, to make sure they're running efficiently.
Clears organic buildup from the coils and makes sure the drain lines are clear.
The indoor coil stays wet while the AC runs, so whatever gets past your air filter, mostly organic material, collects on it. That creates the conditions for bacterial growth and algae, which also clog the drain line.
Our technicians aren’t paid on commission. If they find a worn part, they’ll explain what they found, your options and the cost before any work starts.
Our technicians hold NATE certification, keep up with ongoing training and are cross-trained in HVAC and plumbing.
We’re licensed by the state for heating and cooling work, and we’re fully insured.
Amana shares a parent company with Daikin and Goodman, whose manufacturing plant is in west Houston.
Owner Chris Crawford served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. He grew up in the trade working in his grandfather’s HVAC business.
One yearly price of $169 covers both visits, so you don’t book and pay for the spring AC visit and the fall heating visit separately. New clients can get the agreement for $99 with the coupon on our Special Offers page, good through October 31, 2027. Print it and show it at your visit.
Have a technician check your whole system twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is what our maintenance agreement covers. At a minimum, have the outdoor unit looked at once a year.
AC maintenance is worth it because it costs less to maintain a system than to repair or replace it. On one job, a homeowner's capacitor went bad and the system kept trying to start without it until the fan motor failed. A maintenance visit would have caught the capacitor, about a $75 part. Because the fan motor had to be replaced too, it became about a $375 repair. Our AC maintenance cost guide compares the agreement with paying for each visit.
Water dripping from a pipe above your eaves means your AC's primary drain line is clogged and the emergency drain pan in the attic is filling up. In many Houston-area homes, the primary drain line runs to a bathroom sink, and algae builds up where it connects under the sink. We clear it by blowing compressed nitrogen back through the line and cleaning out the sink connection. That pipe is usually on the side of the house where nobody looks, so walk around and check it now and then. Call us when you see a drip, before the water reaches your ceiling.
Homeowners can rinse the outdoor coil with a garden hose. Use the fan or spray setting, never the stream setting, which can bend the aluminum fins, and spray up and down along the fins, not across them. If a crew mows your yard, ask them to switch the unit off at the disconnect box next to it before they mow and back on when they finish, so the fan doesn't pull clippings into the coil.
See everything we do on our heating and air conditioning services page.
When your AC acts up, a technician finds the cause and repairs your existing system rather than pushing a new one.
The fall visit catches heating problems before they become breakdowns.
The terms of our maintenance agreement, which includes a spring AC visit and a fall heating visit.
Based in Tomball, we cover Greater Houston from League City in the south to Conroe in the north, and from Katy in the west to Mont Belvieu in the east.
Call us or send a message to book a maintenance visit or sign up for the agreement. We answer the phone 24/7.
