Houses here are older, wetter and harder to duct
Air conditioning, heating and ventilation across Savannah and Chatham County — for houses that were built long before anybody planned a duct route, and for the businesses working out of the same buildings.
Six things, laid out plainly
It has stopped
Air conditioning, heat pumps, furnaces and air handlers of any make. We find the fault, say what it costs to put right, and say plainly when the money is better spent elsewhere.
It runs but it is not right
A room that never keeps up, a house that is cold and still sticky, a system that never seems to switch off. All of it is measurable, and measuring it is cheaper than replacing things.
Ducts and airflow
Static pressure, room-by-room airflow, return sizing and leakage into crawlspaces and attics. The ducts decide more about how a system feels than the equipment does.
Water and humidity
Condensate drains, traps and float switches, and the coastal-Georgia humidity that turns a badly sized system into a damp house. This is the work that saves ceilings.
Replacements
A load calculation for your building before anybody chooses equipment, the ducts assessed, and a written scope that says what is excluded as well as what is included.
Houses that cannot be ducted
Where there is nowhere to run a duct, ductless is usually the honest answer rather than the upsell. There is a whole page on when it fits and when it does not.
Houses and apartments
From post-war ranch houses on the southside to buildings that predate ducted air conditioning entirely. Breakdowns, replacements, ducts, drains and humidity.
- No-cooling and no-heat call-outs
- Replacements sized from a load calculation
- Duct sealing and airflow measurement
- Ductless where ducting is not realistic
- Condensate drains and float switches
Shops, offices and light industrial
Retail, restaurants, professional suites, clinics and small warehousing, including businesses operating out of buildings that were never designed for them.
- Maintenance with a record per unit
- Rooftop packaged units and split systems
- Kitchen extract and make-up air balance
- Server and comms room cooling
- Work timed around trading hours
The constraint is almost never the equipment
In a house built before ducted air conditioning was normal, the hard question is not which system to buy. It is where anything is supposed to go — and that question has more than one honest answer.
Tick what your house actually has
No ducts at all, ducts in part of the house, plaster walls with no cavity, no attic access, crawlspace only, single glazing, rooms added later, a property in a designated historic district. Six approaches then sort themselves into the ones worth looking at and the ones that will fight you.
It produces no price and asks for nothing. It exists so that you can have the conversation on equal terms with whoever comes out.
Three things this company will not tell you
- How long your equipment will lastOn this coast that depends on where you are, how it is mounted, whether it is maintained and what it was built from. A number of years from somebody who has not seen it is invented.
- What percentage you will saveSealed ducts and a correct charge genuinely reduce running cost. What that is worth depends on your tariff, your building and your habits, so we put a figure on it after measuring — never before.
- How fast we will get thereWe will tell you honestly where you are in the queue and we will call back. A guaranteed number of hours gets broken on the first hot Saturday in July, which is exactly when you would be relying on it.
Common questions
My house has no ductwork. What are my options?
Realistically four: ductless units in each area, ductless for the problem rooms with something else elsewhere, a small-duct high-velocity system, or retrofitting conventional ducts, which in an older house is mostly carpentry rather than heating work. The older houses page sets all of them out against the constraints your building actually has.
Is ductless always the answer in an old house?
No. Where a serviceable duct system already exists, sealing and balancing it is usually far better value than replacing it with anything. We will quote the smaller job when it is the right one, and it is on the ductless page in writing.
The house is cold but it still feels damp. Why?
Almost always because the system is larger than the building needs. It reaches the thermostat setting before it has run long enough to remove moisture. Blower speed, return sizing and crawlspace duct leakage are all worth measuring before anybody proposes new equipment.
I am in a historic district. Does that change things?
It can. Where a property is in a locally designated district, exterior alterations may need review before work starts, and outdoor units, line set covers and vents on a visible elevation can all count. Your local board or planning office decides what applies — find out before you commit, not afterwards.
Do you work on restaurants and bars?
Yes, including extract and make-up air, which is where most dining-room comfort complaints actually come from. Hood cleaning and fire suppression are separate trades with their own certifications and we do not claim them.
Which areas do you cover?
Savannah, Pooler, Garden City, Richmond Hill, Wilmington Island, Tybee Island and Rincon.
Savannah and Chatham County
12314 Largo Dr, Savannah, GA 31419. We cover Savannah, Pooler, Garden City, Richmond Hill, Wilmington Island, Tybee Island and Rincon.
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, with planned commercial work out of hours by arrangement.