Commercial HVAC Service, Repair and Maintenance in Central Florida

Packaged rooftop units cool most of the commercial buildings we work in. They are mentioned about 856 times in our service records since January 2023, more often than PTACs, walk-ins or ice machines. The failures are familiar: burned contactors, weak capacitors, seized condenser fan motors, dirty coils and clogged condensate drains. On a roof you can add cracked belts, loose access panels, rusted drain pans and economizer dampers stuck open in August.

We also service the split systems that cool offices, medical suites and retail stores, and the thermostats and controls that run them. Before any work starts, the technician tells you what failed, what the repair costs, and whether the unit is still worth fixing at its age.

A commercial kitchen is hard on equipment: heat, grease, and doors that open all day. Walk-in coolers and freezers, ice machines and kitchen hoods together come up about 667 times in our service records since January 2023.

• Walk-in coolers and freezers: iced evaporator coils, failed defrost, torn door gaskets, condenser coils packed with grease and dust, and refrigerant leaks. We check the box temperature first, because the product inside is on the line.
• Ice machines: slow production, thin or cloudy ice, scale on the evaporator, and condensers that cannot shed heat in a hot back room.
• Kitchen exhaust and make-up air: the hood pulls air out of the building and the make-up air unit has to put it back. When make-up air fails, smoke rolls out from under the hood, the dining room gets hot and the front door becomes hard to open. We check fan belts, motors, airflow and the controls that start the two together.

Building a new kitchen with a general contractor? See restaurant HVAC and electrical construction.

Hotels and extended-stay buildings run on PTACs, the through-the-wall units under each guest room window. PTAC work appears about 206 times in our service records since January 2023. A room with a dead PTAC is a room the hotel cannot sell, so we look at the unit, tell you whether a repair or a replacement chassis is the better spend, and confirm that a new chassis fits the existing wall sleeve and receptacle before it is ordered.

Your maintenance staff can save a trip by checking the basics first: a clean filter, a room breaker that has not tripped, and a condensate drain that is not blocked. If the unit still will not run, send us the room numbers and model numbers and we will plan the visit around your occupancy.

Planned maintenance catches the cheap failures, like a cracked belt, a plugged drain or a weak capacitor, before they turn into an emergency call on a busy day. A commercial maintenance visit covers filters, belts, coil cleaning, drain pans and condensate lines, electrical connections, refrigerant pressures and the controls on each unit. You get written notes on what we found and a price for anything that needs repair, and nothing is fixed without your approval.

Operators with several stores, offices or clinics can put every location on one schedule, with visits quarterly, twice a year, or as the equipment and the lease require. You have one contact, one set of records and a repair history for every unit. The table below shows what a maintenance visit has cost our commercial customers.

Emergency service is available outside business hours, because a freezer that fails on a Friday night cannot wait until Monday. After-hours calls carry an after-hours dispatch fee, and the technician quotes the repair before starting. Call (386) 668-8651 and tell us what the equipment is doing.

When a rooftop unit is past repair, we quote the replacement, pull the permit and plan the crane lift with you. That plan covers the curb adapter if the new unit has a different footprint, the electrical disconnect, the condensate line and the controls, so the space is without cooling for as short a time as possible.

Our service technicians work out of our shop on Enterprise Road and cover Central Florida. Since January 2023 we have completed 234 commercial calls in Orlando, 150 in Sanford, 126 in DeBary, 95 in Lake Mary and 69 in Orange City, along with work in Deltona and DeLand.

New buildings for general contractors are handled by our construction team, which works across the country; see commercial HVAC and electrical construction. For power problems in the same building, see commercial electrical service, or schedule a visit.