AC coil cleaning in Phoenix.
A rinse for surface dust, or a chemical clean for the packed-in kind the monsoon leaves.
The outdoor condenser coil is where your house’s heat leaves. Every bit of that happens across thin aluminum fins, and in the Valley those fins collect dust like nowhere else.
A fouled coil does not break. It just gets worse at its job. Head pressure climbs, the compressor works harder, run times stretch out, and the bill goes up while the house gets less comfortable. On the worst afternoons it can trip on its own high pressure switch and restart once it cools, which looks like intermittent cooling from inside.
A rinse is water only and worth doing every season. A deep clean uses a coil cleaner to lift out the packed material, which is what a coil needs after several seasons or a big dust storm.
Both are flat prices on the list. If the system needs anything else, you hear about it and the price before anything else happens.
When to call.
- Gray mat visible through the outdoor fins
- Bills climbing with no clear reason
- Long run times on hot afternoons
- Trips on high pressure, then restarts
- Several seasons since the last clean
- Right after a dust storm
What you get.
- Rinse: water only, from the inside out where possible
- Deep clean: a coil cleaner that lifts packed dust out of the fins
- Deep clean for less when added to a tune-up
Common questions.
Can I just hose it off myself?
A gentle rinse from a garden hose is fine and worth doing. It moves surface dust. It does not move what has set into the fin pack, which is what the chemical clean is for.
How do I know if mine needs the deep clean?
Look through the fins at an angle in daylight. Clean fins look like a grid you can see through. A fouled coil looks like felt.
Is it cheaper with a tune-up?
Yes. The deep clean is $180 when added to a tune-up, or you can book the Deep Clean Tune-Up, which includes it.
Worth reading first.
After a dust storm.
A wall of dust goes somewhere. A good deal of it goes into your condenser.
Read itThe bill doubled and nothing feels different.
Usually the AC, occasionally the rate plan, and the AC version is often cheap to fix.
Read itIt cuts out every afternoon and comes back.
A safety switch is stopping the system before it damages itself. It is telling you something specific.
Read itWhere it's done.
North Phoenix
No trip fee.
Central Phoenix
No trip fee.
Paradise Valley
No trip fee.
Scottsdale
No trip fee.
Further out, same prices with a $150 job minimum. Service areas.
Other work on the list.
Capacitor replacement
The part most likely to quit on the hottest day. One flat price, set by where the unit sits.
See itContactor replacement
The switch that turns the outdoor unit on and off. One of the cheaper real repairs on a system.
See itDrain and float switch
The most common reason a Valley system quietly stops: a plugged drain and the switch that shut it down.
See it