Tell us what the unit is doing, roughly how old it is, and whether it heats with a heat pump or gas. A tech reads it, asks anything that is missing, and sets a visit. We work Monday through Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and answer every message the same day. No call center, no pitch for a new system before anyone has opened a panel.
What we fix
Central air conditioners that run and blow warm, hum and never start, or freeze into a block of ice on the copper line. Most of these come down to a capacitor, a contactor, a refrigerant leak, a dirty coil or a clogged condensate drain, and most of them are a same-visit repair.
Heat pumps, which are the system in a large share of Tuscaloosa County homes. One unit handles summer and winter, so a dead reversing valve or defrost board means no heat and no cooling at the same time. Ductless mini splits in additions, garages and sunrooms fall in the same group.
Gas and electric furnaces: ignitors, flame sensors, blower motors, limit switches and the carbon monoxide checks that go with any gas appliance. Thermostats and controls get looked at on every heating call because a bad wire at the wall can look exactly like a dead furnace.
New and replacement systems sized by a load calculation, tune-ups before pollen season and before the first cold night, and rooftop and split systems for offices, shops and churches.
AC Repair
Central air that runs warm, won't start or freezes up, traced to the actual cause before anything is replaced.
Heat Pump Repair
One unit heats and cools, so when it quits you lose both. Reversing valves, defrost boards, aux heat and mini splits.
Furnace and Heating Repair
Gas and electric furnaces that won't light, short cycle or blow cold, plus thermostats and safety checks.
AC Installation and Replacement
New and replacement central air and heat pumps, sized by load calculation, with ductwork checked and fixed.
AC Tune-Ups and Maintenance
Spring and fall tune-ups that clear pollen off coils, flush drain lines and catch weak parts before they fail.
Commercial HVAC
Rooftop package units and split systems for offices, shops, churches and rental property owners.
Why West Alabama wears out an air conditioner
From late May into September, afternoons sit near 90 with heavy humidity, and an air conditioner here runs most of the day for four straight months. A good share of that run time goes to pulling water out of the air, not just cooling it. That is why the condensate drain matters as much as the refrigerant charge, and why a unit that was oversized by the builder can keep a room cold and still leave it clammy.
Spring does its own damage. Pollen coats outdoor coils and filters from March into May, and a system that limped through winter tends to fail on the first hot week, when everyone in town wants a tech the same afternoon. Spring storms add power surges that take out capacitors and contactors, which is one of the most common no-cool calls we run.
Heat pump country
Winters here are mild enough that most nights stay above freezing, so heat pumps make sense for a lot of houses and a lot of builders put them in. The upside is one machine and usually a lower power bill than straight electric heat. The downside is that the outdoor unit works all year without a real off season, so wear shows up sooner on contactors, fan motors and the reversing valve.
When a heat pump runs on its backup heat strips for days at a time, the power bill tells you before the house does. If yours is blowing lukewarm air in January or icing over and never clearing, here is what usually breaks on a heat pump and how we sort it out.
Repair or replace, straight
Most systems we look at are worth fixing. A failed capacitor or a clogged drain on a ten-year-old unit is a repair, full stop. The harder calls are older systems still running R-22 refrigerant, which has not been produced since 2020 and costs more every year to recharge, and builder-grade units in newer subdivisions that are reaching the end of their life with a compressor that is starting to go.
On those calls we lay out both numbers side by side. Every repair is quoted in writing after the diagnosis and before any part is ordered, and if a repair costs close to what a new system would, we say so. Some people still choose the repair to get through one more summer, and that is their call to make with real figures in front of them.
Where we work
Tuscaloosa itself, from the older brick homes near the University of Alabama and Forest Lake out to the subdivisions along Highway 69 South, plus Northport across the river and the smaller towns around them. We repair heating and air across Tuscaloosa County: Tuscaloosa, Northport, Cottondale, Coker, Brookwood, Vance, Duncanville, Fosters, Coaling, Moundville, Holt, Lake View and Samantha. Rural houses on wells and long driveways are fine; send the address with the form and we will tell you the visit window.
- Tuscaloosa
- Northport
- Cottondale
- Coker
- Brookwood
- Vance
- Duncanville
- Fosters
- Coaling
- Moundville
- Holt
- Lake View
- Samantha