“Our AC quit on a Sunday in July. The tech found a clogged condensate line that had tripped the float switch, told us nothing was actually broken, cleared it properly and showed us the readings before he left. Honest and quick.”
AC repair in Tampa
No cold air, or a heat pump that will not heat? We measure first, show you the readings, and fix what is actually wrong.
What is it doing?
Call (656) 236-2374- Diagnostic charge told up front
- Readings on every report
- Rated 4.9 by 312 homeowners
Estimates from photos
Get an estimate from photos
Send a photo of the outdoor unit, the thermostat or the label on the unit. The Copperfield office writes an estimate from it, and you pick a day for the visit.
- Send photosRight in the chat, from your phone. It tells you which ones help: the outdoor unit, the label, the thermostat.
- Get your estimateWritten by a person here from your photos, usually within the hour during office hours.
- Pick a daySay yes, choose a day, and we text you to confirm the time.
Start my photo estimateWatch it work
Rather talk it through? Call (656) 236-2374.
What an estimate looks like
Condenser fan motor and run capacitor, 3-ton system
$640–$820
From your photos, confirmed on site
Cooling or heating?
Which side is giving you trouble?
If it is both, it is usually one system doing two jobs.
Cooling
Air conditioning
Warm air, ice on the line, a system that shuts itself off, or a room that never cools.
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Heating & comfort
Heat pumps and indoor air
A heat pump that blows cool in winter, strip heat that runs all night, a thermostat that fights you, or air that feels sticky at a cool setting.
See heat pumpsStart with the symptom
What is it doing?
Tap the one that sounds like your house. The chat tells you what to check first, when to stop and call, and passes your details to the office.
No cold airWarm air, long run times, or a system that won’t start.Ask about this →Ice on the lineAirflow or charge. It has to thaw before anyone can tell.Ask about this →It shut itself offUsually the float switch on a blocked drain, doing its job.Ask about this →One room never coolsStatic pressure and the return, before any equipment.Ask about this →Cool air in winterA heat pump that isn’t heating, or strip heat doing all the work.Ask about this →Loud or rattlingA fan, a panel, a motor. Some stop being safe to run.Ask about this →Water at the air handlerUsually the condensate line. Turn the system off at the thermostat.Ask about this →Thermostat blank or wrongBatteries, a tripped switch or a wiring fault. Quick to check.Ask about this →
Supply–return split · a Brandon job, August
19°F
In range, as leftSplit, as found12°F
Split, as left19°F
Superheat19 → 11°F
Subcooling2 → 9°F
Why homeowners call us back
We show you the numbers.
A working system in Tampa humidity splits 16–22°F between the air going in and the air coming out. This one read 12°F when we arrived. The cause was a leaking service port worth a few dollars, not the new system someone had priced.
The split
Two thermometers and five minutes. Ask anyone who works on your AC for it.
Superheat and subcooling
How a charge is actually checked, not by feel at a vent.
Static pressure
Most homes are designed for about 0.5 inch. Above that, the blower is fighting your ducts.
What you’re handed
You keep the report, including what we didn’t sell you.
Every visit ends with a written service report. Next summer, it’s the one piece of paper that tells the next technician exactly what your system was doing.
- The readings, as found and as left, next to the number they should be.
- Every line priced before the work, part and labor named.
- What you asked for and we advised against, and why. It’s printed at $0.00.
Your copy
Service report SR-4417
01$189.00
Nitrogen pressure test and electronic leak search
Coils, line set and both service ports. Pressurized to 350 psig with dry nitrogen, walked with the detector, soaped where it alarmed. Schrader core at the liquid port weeping.
02$14.00
Schrader core, liquid service port
Core replaced, both cap gaskets renewed. The part is a few dollars; finding which one it was is the job.
03$318.00
Evacuate and weigh in charge
Pulled to 480 microns, decay test held at 510. Charge weighed in to the nameplate, 6 lb 4 oz, then confirmed on superheat and subcooling.
04$95.00
Blower wheel cleaned, filter rack sealed
Dust loaded on every blade; a finger-wide gap at the return boot pulling garage air, sealed with mastic.
05$0.00
“Just top up the refrigerant” — declined
Requested and not done. A sealed system doesn’t use refrigerant; low means leaking. The leak was found and fixed instead (line 01).
06$0.00
Run capacitor — measured, not sold
34.6 µF on a 35 µF part, inside its ±6% tolerance. It stays.
07$0.00
Duct static pressure — written down, not priced
0.78″ w.c. against a 0.50″ design. A real duct problem, but not today’s, and not what you called about. On the record for next time.
Total$616.00
As left: split 19°F · superheat 11°F · subcooling 9°F · float switch dry.
What we do
AC and heating services in Tampa
Six services, one crew. Every one starts with a look and a measurement, not a guess.
CoolingAC repair
No cold air, ice or a system that quit, diagnosed with gauges before anything is priced.
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CoolingAC replacement
A new system sized from a load calculation, behind ducts we measured first, with the permit handled.
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HeatingHeat pump & heating
What a Florida winter asks of the same system, from defrost cycles to strip heat.
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CoolingDuctwork & airflow
Static pressure, returns and leaky attic ducts, measured before anybody sells you equipment.
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CoolingMaintenance plans
Spring and fall visits with the readings written down, so a problem shows up before it strands you.
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ComfortThermostats & indoor air
Settings, filters and humidity: the cheapest fixes first, before anyone talks equipment.
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Maintenance plan
A maintenance visit you can read.
The same readings every visit, written down, so the next one tells you something. Plans start with a free first visit; ask the office for your price.
- Two visits a year, before the heat and before the cold nights.
- Coil washed, drain flushed, float switches tested by lifting them, not looking at them.
- Your numbers beside last visit’s, so a slow leak shows up before the house gets warm.
- Priority when it’s 95° out and everyone is calling.
Reviews
What Tampa Bay homeowners say
4.9
from 312 reviews
“First cold night and the heat blew cool. They explained the defrost cycle, found a bad strip and fixed that one part. No new system sold to us.”
“They measured the ducts before pricing a new system and found our return was badly undersized. They fixed that first, and the back bedroom finally cools. Nobody had ever measured anything before.”
Day or night
Ask before you call.
The chat on this site tells you what to check first, when to stop and call, and passes your name and number to the office.
It won’t price a job from a description, and it will never ask you to get on a ladder or into the attic.
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Hi, this is Copperfield. What’s going on at the house?
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Local
Where we work in Hillsborough County
We’d rather be forty minutes from everybody we serve than two hours from half of them.
- Tampa
- Riverview
- Brandon
- Temple Terrace
- Lutz
- Carrollwood
- Plant City
- Town ’n’ Country
- Westchase
- Seffner
Straight answers
Questions we hear most
My AC needs a pound of refrigerant every summer. Can you just add it?
No. A refrigerant circuit is sealed, so low means a leak. We find it and fix it instead of topping it up. Knowingly venting refrigerant is also illegal under Section 608 of the Clean Air Act.
Why does my AC freeze up?
Too little air or too little refrigerant. It has to thaw before anyone can tell which, so we thaw it, then measure.
How long should an AC last in Tampa?
It depends on the system, the salt and heat it lives in, and how it was kept. We give you the readings and an honest view, not a number from a chart.
Do you charge to come out?
There is a diagnostic charge, told on the phone before anyone drives out. It covers the readings, and you keep the report either way.
Can a heat pump heat a Florida house?
Usually, yes. It is the same outdoor unit running in reverse. On the coldest nights it may lean on electric strip heat, which costs more to run.
Tampa · Hillsborough County
Get somebody out with gauges on the truck.
Tell us what it’s doing. We’ll say what to check first and whether it can wait, and if it can’t, the office will call you to agree a time.