Everything a Front Range house asks of its mechanical room.
Six trades under one roof, all of them adjusted for altitude. Every furnace and AC install here gets derated and re-sized for elevation. Skipping that step is the single most common mistake we find in equipment other people put in.
Furnace repair & replacement
Most no-heat calls end in a repair, not a replacement. Failed igniters, dirty flame sensors, and stuck inducer motors account for the bulk of what we see, and the truck carries parts for all three. If your furnace is past fifteen years and the heat exchanger is going, we will say so and show you the crack on the camera.
Replacements are usually a one-day job: pull the old unit in the morning, fire the new one by late afternoon. At our elevation a furnace loses roughly four percent of its rated output for every thousand feet, so a "100,000 BTU" furnace in Monument is really a 72,000 BTU furnace. We do the math and size to a load calculation, not to what was there before.
- Common fixesIgniters, flame sensors, inducer motors, control boards
- Brands servicedLennox, Carrier, Goodman, Rheem, Trane, Amana
- Replacement timeTypically one day, quote before we start
- AltitudeOutput derated and re-sized for 6,000–7,200 ft
AC repair & installation
Colorado cooling is its own animal: dry air, intense sun, cool nights. A lot of houses here were built without AC at all, and plenty of the systems bolted on later were sized by guesswork. Oversized AC short-cycles, never dehumidifies properly, and dies young.
We run a Manual J load calculation on every install and quote two options, a straightforward single-stage system and a two-stage or variable option if the house would actually benefit. Repairs get the same treatment as furnaces: diagnose first, quote the fix, then do it. No mystery line items.
- Common fixesCapacitors, contactors, refrigerant leaks, fan motors
- SizingManual J on every install, no rule-of-thumb tonnage
- Install windowOne day for most changeouts, two for first-time AC
- RefrigerantR-454B systems installed, R-410A still serviced
Cold-climate heat pumps
Modern cold-climate heat pumps hold their output well below zero, and they handle heating and cooling with one outdoor unit. On the Front Range they pencil out best in two situations: all-electric homes paying resistance-heat prices, and homeowners replacing both furnace and AC at once.
We will also tell you when a heat pump is the wrong answer. If your gas furnace has ten good years left, keeping it as a dual-fuel backup usually beats ripping it out. Ask Carl in Fountain, who came to us for a heat pump and left with a smaller furnace and a lower bill.
- Rated outputUsable heat to −13°F on current cold-climate models
- Best fitAll-electric homes; simultaneous furnace + AC replacement
- Dual fuelHeat pump with gas backup, switchover set to your rates
- IncentivesWe paper the rebate forms with you before install day
Ductless mini-splits
Garages turned into gyms, bonus rooms over garages, sunrooms that roast every afternoon: this is mini-split territory. One outdoor unit can feed up to four indoor heads, each with its own remote and its own setpoint.
Installation is far less invasive than adding ductwork. A three-inch hole through the wall, a line set, and a day of work per zone or two. In older Security-Widefield ranches with no room for ducts, a multi-zone mini-split is often the cleanest whole-house answer.
- Typical jobsGarages, additions, upstairs bedrooms, sunrooms
- ZonesSingle-head up to four heads per outdoor unit
- Install timeOne day for a single zone, two for multi-zone
- Heating tooEvery unit we install heats as well as cools
Duct sealing & airflow correction
If your back bedrooms are cold in January and hot in July, the furnace is usually not the problem. The ducts are. In the 1950s-to-70s housing around Security-Widefield and older Colorado Springs, we routinely measure twenty to thirty percent of conditioned air leaking into crawlspaces before it ever reaches a register.
We pressure-test the duct system, seal accessible runs with mastic, and re-balance the dampers. It is unglamorous work with an outsized payoff: rooms that finally match the thermostat and a system that stops running overtime to compensate.
- The symptomRooms that never match the thermostat setting
- What we measureDuct leakage under pressure, register airflow per room
- The fixMastic sealing, damper re-balancing, targeted duct repair
- Typical scopeOne to two days, crawlspace access required
Maintenance plans
Two visits a year: furnace in the fall, AC in the spring. We clean, test, and measure rather than eyeball. Combustion analysis on the furnace, capacitor and refrigerant checks on the AC, and a written record of the numbers so you can see drift year over year.
Plan members get priority dispatch in the January and July rushes and a discount on repairs. No auto-renewing contract games. It renews when you say so.
- Fall visitCombustion analysis, heat exchanger inspection, filter, safeties
- Spring visitCoil cleaning, refrigerant charge, capacitor, condensate
- Member perksPriority dispatch, repair discount, written readings
- RenewalYearly, only when you confirm. No auto-renewal.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the symptom. Dan or the dispatcher will tell you what it usually is, and what it usually costs, before anyone rolls a truck.