Same published flat prices as everywhere else. Tempe sits outside the no-minimum zone, so the visit falls under a $150 job minimum.
Tempe is a short drive and a different housing stock. Near the university it is mostly older stock that has been rented for a long time, and the equipment shows it. South of the 60 it is newer, taller, and usually running two systems.
The thing worth understanding before you call is the minimum. It is not a trip fee and not a surcharge: the published prices on the price list are exactly what they are in Scottsdale. The visit just cannot total less than $150. One repair, a tune-up, or a second system in the same trip clears it without anything being invented to fill the gap, which is the whole reason to sort it out on the phone first.
If you are trying to work out what is actually wrong before you spend anything, the guide to a system that runs without cooling is the place most of these calls start.
A large share of the housing near the university is rented, and rented equipment is equipment nobody books a tune-up for. The calls that come out of it are predictable: a coil nobody has rinsed in years, a filter that has been in since the last tenant, a drain line that finally closed up.
North of the 60 the stock runs heavily to 1950s and 1960s ranch houses, a lot of them with the whole system sitting up on a low-slope roof. Roof work is its own row on the price list, not a surcharge added once somebody is up the ladder.
South Tempe is newer and taller, which usually means two systems with the upstairs one doing most of the work. A second system in the same visit is priced lower, and it also helps the visit clear the minimum without anything being padded.
Tempe sits outside the no-minimum zone, so the visit falls under a $150 job minimum. The prices themselves do not change, and where the unit sits is already in them. Call and ask before you book. Full list.
No, but there is a job minimum, which is a different thing. Tempe sits outside the three areas with no minimum, so the visit falls under a $150 minimum. Nothing gets added to the published prices; the total simply does not go below that number.
On its own it falls under the $150 minimum. That is why it is worth calling first: a second system, a tune-up instead of a check-up, or a repair you already know you need will all clear the minimum on their own, and then you are just paying list price. Call and work it out before you book.
Distance, and nothing else. The minimum exists to cover a longer drive rather than to turn anyone away, which is why it is set low and why it is published instead of appearing on the invoice.
Yes, with the same written record as anywhere else: readings, photos, and what was found. Whoever is paying gets the same document, which tends to end the argument about whether the work was needed.
A ceiling stain, a wet closet floor, or a system that quits with no fault code. Usually the drain, not the AC.
Read itThe system is working. Something between it and that room is not.
Read itOn a 115 day this may be the system doing its job. The rest of the year it is a question worth asking.
Read itStraight answer on the phone, no pitch on the end of it.