Emergency AC Repair & HVAC Service
Cooling or heating failed? The phones are answered 6am to 7pm, every day of the week. You get the diagnostic fee and a real arrival window before anything is booked.
Check These Before You Call
A failed air conditioner in a Florida August is not an inconvenience. Indoor temperatures climb fast in a closed house, and for infants, elderly residents and anyone with a heart or respiratory condition that becomes a medical problem. If that describes your house, stop reading and call. If it is uncomfortable but not dangerous, these checks are worth two minutes, because a meaningful share of emergency calls turn out to be something you can resolve yourself.
Thermostat
Set to Cool, fan on Auto, setpoint below room temperature. Dead batteries are a common cause of a system that appears completely failed.
Both breakers
Most systems have two: one for the air handler and one for the outdoor unit. Check both. A breaker that trips again immediately after resetting is a real fault, so stop there and call.
The filter
A badly clogged filter restricts airflow enough to ice the coil and shut the system down. If the filter is grey and the coil is frozen, turn the system off, run the fan only, and let it thaw.
The condensate float switch
A blocked drain trips a safety switch that shuts the system off deliberately. If there is standing water in the drain pan, that is the cause, and it is one of the most common August failures here.
What Makes It a Genuine Emergency
Not every failure needs a truck today. A system that cools but not as well as it used to, a rattle you have lived with for a month, or one bedroom that never quite gets there all book cheaper as scheduled visits. These situations do not wait:
Complete System Failure
Cooling or heating has stopped entirely and the indoor temperature is heading past the mid-eighties with no way to bring it down.
Vulnerable Occupants
Infants, elderly residents, or anyone with a heart or respiratory condition in a house that is heating up. These calls go to the front of the line.
Burning Smell or Sparking
Turn the breaker off and do not run the system to see if the smell clears. A loose terminal under load is how air handler fires start.
Breaker That Keeps Tripping
One reset is a check. A second trip is a fault, usually a failing compressor or a short, and resetting it again risks the equipment.
Water Damaging the House
Water at the air handler is usually a blocked condensate drain. Shut the system off so it stops dripping into the ceiling, then call.
Gas Smell or CO Alarm
Rare here, since most Tampa Bay homes heat with a heat pump, but if you have gas heat and smell gas, or a carbon monoxide alarm sounds, leave the house and call 911 before you call us.
While You Wait
Close blinds and curtains on the sun side of the house, particularly anything facing west in the afternoon. Run ceiling fans in occupied rooms only, since fans cool people, not rooms. Avoid running the oven or dryer. Move everyone to the lowest, shadiest part of the house and keep fluids up.
If the house is hot and anyone in it is vulnerable, relocating for the afternoon is the right call. A repair worth doing properly is worth an hour somewhere air-conditioned, and nothing about the visit goes better because someone sat through the heat waiting for it.
Commercial Sites
A restaurant, clinic or retail unit that cannot open without cooling is an emergency in the same sense a house with an infant is, and it is triaged the same way. Rooftop units, split systems and multi-tenant buildings are covered under the same license, residential and commercial. The commercial HVAC page covers how planned work runs; for a site that is down now, call the same number.
What to Expect When You Call
How an emergency call runs, from the moment you dial to a working system.
The Call
Phones are answered 6am to 7pm, every day. We ask what the system is doing, who is in the house, and where you are, because that is how calls get ordered.
Fee Quoted, Then Dispatch
The diagnostic fee is quoted on that call, before anyone is dispatched. Nothing rolls until you have accepted it.
A Real Arrival Window
You get a window we can hit, not a whole-day wait. On peak August afternoons we say so instead of guessing short.
Diagnosis and Price
The technician inspects the system, identifies the fault, and puts a repair price in front of you. You approve the work before we proceed.
Repairs Completed
Most emergency repairs are completed on the first visit. We carry common parts on our trucks to minimize delays.
How We Handle an Emergency Call
An emergency call is a bad time to find out how a contractor operates, so here is ours. Phones are answered 6am to 7pm daily, the diagnostic fee is quoted before anyone is dispatched, and the repair price is agreed before work begins. Same-day service is usually available, and when the schedule is full we tell you that on the phone, not at your door. There is no travel or mileage charge anywhere in our service area, which covers Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.
Our trucks carry the parts that cause most no-cool calls, capacitors, contactors, motors, so the majority of repairs finish in one visit. We are factory-certified on Carrier, Goodman, Rheem, LG, Midea, Trane, Daikin, Mitsubishi and Lennox and service most other equipment already installed in Tampa Bay homes, with 24+ years behind the license.
On arrival the fault gets diagnosed and explained, with the repair option and the replacement option both laid out where both make sense. If a system is old enough that a major repair is throwing money at it, we will say so and point you at the repair-or-replace numbers. If it is not, we fix it and leave. For a fault that is annoying but not urgent, common HVAC problems covers what the symptoms usually mean.
HVAC Emergency?
Don't wait. Call us now for emergency HVAC service.
Call 727-306-1700Phones answered 6am to 7pm daily, all four counties
Common Questions
Do you charge extra for emergency calls?
We quote the diagnostic fee before we dispatch, so there is no surprise on arrival. There is no travel or mileage charge anywhere in our service area, whether you are in central Tampa or out in Hernando Beach.
How fast can you get here?
Same-day service is usually available across all four counties. We triage by severity, not distance, so a house with no cooling and a vulnerable occupant goes ahead of a routine call wherever it is. Peak August afternoons are the constraint, and the window we give you is the one we expect to hit.
Do you take emergency calls at night?
The phones are answered 6am to 7pm, seven days a week. A call that comes in after 7pm is picked up first thing the next morning. We would rather say that plainly than advertise a 24-hour line nobody is sitting at.
My AC is frozen solid. What do I do?
Turn the cooling off and set the fan to On so air keeps moving over the coil, which thaws it faster. Do not chip at the ice. Once it has thawed, check the filter, because a restricted filter is the most common cause. If it freezes again after a filter change, the system is either low on refrigerant or has an airflow restriction, and both need a technician.
Is it worth repairing or should I replace?
It depends on the age of the system, the cost of the repair, and whether it uses R-410A, which is being phased down and rising in cost. A major repair on a system past twelve years old puts a large share of the price of a new system into equipment that has a year or two left. A capacitor or contactor on a healthy eight-year-old system is worth doing, no question. We lay out both numbers and you choose.
Water is coming from the indoor unit. Is that urgent?
Yes, because water damages the ceiling and the floor, not only the equipment. It is almost always a blocked condensate drain, which is common here and inexpensive to clear. Turn the system off to stop the leak getting worse, and call. Leaving it running while it drips into a ceiling is the expensive choice.
Do you handle commercial emergencies?
Yes. Rooftop units, split systems and multi-tenant buildings across all four counties, residential and commercial under the same license. A restaurant or clinic that cannot open without cooling is triaged the same way a house with a vulnerable occupant is.
Emergency AC repair and HVAC service across Tampa Bay
R.M. Mechanical works across Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties. Open your area for the local details that actually change the job: which building department issues the permit, what the housing stock is like, and what the climate there does to equipment.
Request Emergency Service
Forms are checked during business hours, 6am to 7pm daily. For a system that is down right now, call 727-306-1700.
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