Air conditioner quit in the middle of July, Calgary Air Heating and Cooling Ltd is the call. New installs. Repair calls. Spring tune-ups. Full replacements. One company covers all four.
Calgary gets cold. Everybody knows that part. Summer is what catches people out. Mid-30s on the worst days, and a brick-and-drywall house holds that heat long after the sun goes down. Cooling stops being a luxury around the third night nobody sleeps.
Residential systems across Calgary, Chestermere, Cochrane, and Okotoks. Same licensed team on a new central air conditioner install as on a no-cool call in August.
Licensed and insured. The quote is what you pay. Evening and weekend appointments where weekday windows do not work.
Two situations bring on a new unit. A home that has never had central air and the owners have finally had enough of dragging window units up from the basement. Or a system that has run its course and needs to come out.
Central air conditioners tie into ductwork you already have. Ductless mini splits skip the ducts and cool room by room, which suits older Calgary homes with no ductwork worth speaking of. Home layout decides most of it. Budget decides the rest.
Sizing is where installs go wrong. Undersize the air conditioner and it runs flat out through a hot week without ever catching up. Oversize it and the thing short-cycles, drops the temperature fast, then shuts off before it has pulled any humidity out. Clammy and cold. Neither is what anybody paid for.
Free quotes on every new system. Financing on request. Sizing, equipment tiers, and what install day actually looks like are covered on the AC installation service page.
The air conditioner runs but the house stays warm. Or it cools for forty minutes, shuts off, and comes back on ten minutes later. Both are repair calls.
Cost spread on AC repair is wide because the parts are not comparable. Capacitor swaps sit at the low end. Compressor and refrigerant work sit a long way above it. Most repairs land between $200 and $800. A technician diagnoses before quoting, so nobody is guessing at the price.
Something wrong with your AC, we handle the diagnosis and the fix on the same visit where parts allow. Symptoms, diagnostics, and typical costs are on the AC repair service page.
Lifespan is the real argument for a tune-up. A unit that gets serviced every spring runs well past 15 years. One that never gets touched gets through 10 to 12. Three to five years of extra service life, for the cost of an annual visit.
Filter swapped. Thermostat tested. Evaporator coil, condenser fins, refrigerant charge, electrical connections all checked. The visit flags components heading for failure before July, and July is when repair waits get long.
Energy bills follow the same pattern. A dirty coil makes the air conditioner work harder to hit the same number on the thermostat, and that shows up on the bill every month it goes unaddressed. Full checklist and timing on the AC maintenance service page.
12 to 15 years is the run most units get in this climate. Some go longer with steady maintenance. Others start costing money at year eight.
R-22 was phased out in Canada in 2020. Still on it? That system is on borrowed time, and topping up the refrigerant is renting the problem rather than solving it. Two or more repair calls in a single season points the same direction.
No obligation assessments if the repair-or-replace call is not obvious. What a replacement involves and what the new air conditioner costs to run are on the AC replacement service page.
Ductwork settles this question more often than preference does.
Houses built with forced-air heating already have the ducts, so central air conditioning is the straightforward path. The outdoor condenser goes on a pad, the evaporator coil sits on top of the existing furnace, and the whole house cools off one thermostat. Inner-city homes from the 1940s and 50s are the awkward ones. Plenty were converted off boilers and have no ducts at all.
Ductless mini splits solve that. Each indoor head cools its own zone, which works for a converted attic or a bonus room over the garage that never matches the rest of the house. Cost per zone runs higher than central air. Add enough zones and the numbers cross over.
Worth knowing before the quote: a mini split does not use the furnace blower, so the two systems run independently. That helps in a house where one floor is always wrong.
Eight to ten weeks. That is the working cooling season here, roughly late June through early September, and it changes the maintenance math against a market running air conditioning from May to October.
Short season, long dormancy. The unit sits idle nine months, so the failures showing up in June are usually not wear. They are seizure, corrosion, and rodent damage in equipment nothing has spun in three quarters of a year. Capacitors fail sitting still.
Chinooks add the other half. Freeze, thaw, freeze again, sometimes inside one week, and the outdoor condenser takes that cycle all winter. Fins corrode from the base up where meltwater collects and refreezes. Hail is the other one. A summer storm flattens a whole coil face in ten minutes, and airflow drops off long before anybody notices the fins are bent.
Snow load matters more than people expect too. A condenser buried under a drift that thaws and refreezes ends up sitting in ice, and the pad shifts over a few seasons. Out of level by enough and the compressor oil stops returning properly. That one shows up as a failure years later with no obvious cause.
The practical read: book service in April or May, not on the first 30-degree day. Everyone calls on the first 30-degree day.
New central air conditioner installed: $3,500 to $6,500 for most Calgary homes, unit and labour included. Repairs mostly land at $200 to $800. An annual maintenance visit sits well below either.
House size moves the install number. So does ductwork condition, and so does the efficiency tier. A 2,000 square foot home usually needs 2.5 to 3 tons and lands nearer $4,000 to $5,500. Written quote before work starts, either way. The AC installation cost guide breaks the pricing down further.
Combining jobs is where the savings actually sit. Furnace and air conditioner share the same air handler and the same ductwork, so replacing both on one visit costs meaningfully less than two separate installs a year apart. Homeowners with a furnace past 15 years should ask about it before committing to cooling alone.
Licensed, insured, 100% Canadian. The quote is the invoice, with nothing added afterward. Calgary plus Chestermere, Cochrane, and Okotoks is the service area. Evening and weekend appointments where the weekday windows do not work. Manufacturer warranties on every unit installed, and free quotes on new installations.
Call (403) 720-0003 to book, or to ask what is wrong with the system before committing to anything.
April or May. Booking then gets you a working system before the heat arrives and a repair slot that is not four days out. June onward the schedule fills with no-cool calls.
12 to 15 years with regular service. The short cooling season works in the unit's favour, since it runs far fewer hours annually than the same model would in southern Ontario. Winter is what wears it, not summer.
Depends on the part and the price. Multiply the age of the unit by the repair cost. Past roughly $5,000, replacement is usually the better spend. A twelve-year-old system facing a $500 repair works out to $6,000 on that math, which tips toward a new one.
Chestermere, Cochrane, Okotoks, and the surrounding rural communities. Call if you are not sure whether your address is inside the area.
Most forced-air homes can take one. The evaporator coil mounts on the furnace and shares the same blower and ductwork, so a home already running forced-air heat is most of the way there. The furnace has to be in reasonable shape to be worth pairing with new cooling, and combining both jobs costs less than booking them a year apart.
A load calculation answers it properly, and square footage alone does not. Window area, insulation, sun exposure, and ceiling height all move the number. Two-storey and bungalow at identical square footage size differently, because second floors hold heat the main floor never sees.
Three usual suspects. A filter choked enough to starve airflow, a frozen evaporator coil, or a capacitor that has failed so the compressor never starts while the fan keeps spinning. The last one is common here after a long dormant winter. Shut it off before running it further, because a frozen coil left running puts liquid refrigerant back into the compressor.
Calgary Air Heating and Cooling Ltd covers the full AC service range. Installation, repair, maintenance, and replacement in Calgary, Chestermere, Cochrane, and Okotoks.
New central AC installed correctly from the first visit. Free quotes, financing available, manufacturer warranty on every unit.
Something wrong with your AC, Calgary Air is the call. Same-day service where scheduling allows. Upfront pricing before work starts.
Unit past 12 to 15 years or still on R-22? Honest assessment on whether repair or replacement makes more sense.
Annual tune-up in April or May. Catches failing components before the summer rush. Extends system lifespan and lowers energy bills.
We have successfully completed hundreds of air conditioning installation, repair, and replacement jobs in Calgary and its surrounding cities. Here are some photos of our previous work:
You will always get upfront pricing on all our professional services. Also, you will get free replacement quotes on heating and cooling. Apart from Calgary, the other areas we cover are Chestermere, Cochrane, Okotoks, Rural Communities, etc.
