AC Installation and Repair in Downtown Phoenix, AZ

Air conditioning work in downtown Phoenix

Downtown Phoenix is the one part of the metro where the building type, rather than the neighborhood, decides the job. Many of the city's residential high rises date from the 1960s, and the 1970s added five buildings over 200 feet including Chase Tower. Since the recovery from the Great Recession the urban core has seen a sustained run of higher density residential construction. The result is a downtown holding mid century towers, recent apartment and condominium blocks, converted commercial space and, at its edges, historic low rise housing.

What changes in a building you do not own outright

In a condominium or apartment the equipment serving your unit is often only partly yours. Packaged terminal units, fan coils fed from a central loop, and split systems with the condenser on a shared roof or podium all limit what can be changed, and by whom. Access frequently needs building management, roof work may need scheduling, and replacements usually have to match what the building association permits. It is worth knowing before you call whether your unit has its own outdoor condenser or is served from a central system, because that single fact determines almost everything that follows.

The load a downtown system is actually carrying

The Phoenix area reaches 100 degrees on average from May 2 to October 5 and 110 degrees on average from June 11 to August 26, on about 7.22 inches of rain in a normal year. Downtown also sits in the densest, most paved part of the valley, where masonry, asphalt and glass hold the day's heat and release it overnight, so night time temperatures fall less than they do on the edge of the metro and equipment gets less overnight recovery.

When to call us downtown

Call if your unit will not cool, if airflow has dropped, if there is water staining near a ceiling air handler or condensate line, or if a system is running constantly without holding setpoint. Tell us the building type and we will connect you with a local contractor.