Furnaces and boilers
Ignition, flame sensing, heat exchangers, combustion and the full venting path, checked before the first cold spell rather than during it.
- Home
- Services
Facility HVAC, and the same method for homes.
Commercial facilities first, because that is where the business leads. Homes next, in full. Then the work that runs through both — every piece of it feeding the same condition report.
Commercial
Schools, churches, offices, clinics, retail and light industrial.
Facilities with more than one unit, a budget set a year ahead, and somebody responsible for keeping them running. That person needs a list, not a surprise.
What we look after
- Packaged rooftop units — the backbone of most single-storey commercial buildings in North Texas, and the equipment most exposed to wind, hail, heat and freeze.
- Split systems — offices, classrooms, fellowship halls, server rooms, each on its own unit.
- Furnaces and boilers — combustion, venting and freeze protection checked before the cold arrives.
- Buildings used in bursts — sanctuaries, gyms and halls that sit empty all week and fill up at once, where controls and pre-conditioning matter more than capacity.
- Ventilation and make-up air — kitchens, workshops and anywhere exhaust has been added.
- Several sites — one schedule, one format of report, one point of contact.
Working around the building's calendar
Schools have term dates, churches have services, clinics have appointments and shops have trading hours. Maintenance and replacement are scheduled around them — and on a condition report, replacements are placed in the mild months deliberately, so a unit coming out never leaves the building without heating or cooling when it matters.
Roof access, keys, alarm codes and any escort requirements are agreed before the first visit and recorded, so they are not rediscovered every time.
Residential
Houses, duplexes and small rentals.
A house gets the same method at a smaller scale. One report, usually two or three lines long — furnace, air conditioner or heat pump, ductwork — each with a status you can understand.
What we get called for
- No cooling in a July heatwave
- No heat on the first hard freeze
- Heat pump iced over and not recovering
- Hail or wind damage to the outdoor unit
- Rooms that never reach the same temperature
- A system old enough to want a plan
- A rental that needs a record for the landlord
- A second opinion on a replacement quote
Every home visit ends with the report, in writing. If a system is fine, it says so. If one part is heading for replacement, it says roughly when — so you can do it in October rather than in August, and shop for it rather than accept whatever is available that afternoon.
Site surveys
The first report. Everything else follows from it.
A survey finds every heating and cooling unit on the site, including the ones nobody remembers — the split on the back of the building, the unit serving the one room that was added later. Each one is identified from its nameplate, dated, photographed, located on a plan, measured and assessed.
The result is the first condition report: a status for every unit, a replacement order, and anything urgent flagged the same day with its own written price.
Find
Every unit on the roof, the ground, in closets and plant rooms.
Identify
Type, capacity and date of manufacture from the nameplate.
Measure
Electrical draw, pressures, temperatures, airflow, combustion where it applies.
Assess
Condition of coils, cabinets, heat exchangers, drains, controls and connections.
Report
OK, Watch, Plan or Act — with a sentence of reasoning for each.
Planned maintenance
Every visit moves the report forward.
A maintenance visit does the usual work — filters, coils, drains, belts, electrical connections, refrigerant state, combustion and venting on anything gas-fired, controls and schedules — and then updates each unit's line in the report.
That is the part that makes it planning rather than just servicing. A Watch that has got worse becomes a Plan. A Plan that has held steady stays where it is. An Act gets its own written price. Over a few visits the report becomes a reliable forecast of what the building will need.
Intervals are set per unit by how hard it works. The unit over the kitchen and the unit over the storeroom are not on the same schedule.
Repair
Fix it, and record why it broke.
Things still fail, planned or not. A repair call gets the same treatment as everything else: diagnosis by measurement, photographs of what is wrong, and a written price before anything billable starts.
What is different is what happens afterwards. The failure goes into the report, with the cause, and it changes the status of that unit. A second capacitor in two summers is not bad luck; it is information about the condenser.
Hail and wind
North Texas storms damage outdoor coils and rooftop cabinets. We document storm damage with photographs and a written description for your records. We do not interpret insurance policies or advise on claims — that is between you and your insurer.
Heating & freeze readiness
The few cold weeks that catch buildings out.
Wichita Falls is a cooling town most of the year, which is exactly why heating gets neglected — until a hard freeze arrives and every furnace, boiler and heat pump in the county is asked to work at once.
Heat pumps
Defrost operation, auxiliary heat, refrigerant state and controls — the parts that decide whether a heat pump copes with a genuine freeze.
Freeze exposure
Condensate lines, exposed piping and rooftop equipment that will be sitting in wind and ice. Noted on the report so it is dealt with in autumn.
Controls & ventilation
Schedules that match how the building is used.
A great deal of wasted running time in commercial buildings comes from schedules nobody has looked at since the building opened: a hall conditioned all week for a Sunday service, an office running through the weekend, a classroom wing cooling through the summer break.
We set schedules against the building's real calendar, with enough lead time to bring a space to temperature before it fills, and we write the schedule into the report so the next person can see it. Where exhaust has been added, we check that make-up air has been too.
What we will not claim
We will not quote you a percentage saving from controls or a payback period for new equipment before we have looked at your building. Those depend on your hours, occupancy, equipment and tariff. After a survey we will tell you what we found and what can reasonably be expected to change.
Start with a survey.
Facility or house, one call. We will tell you what the survey involves, how long it takes, and what it costs before anyone comes out.