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AC Installation
A new system is only as good as the ductwork it's tied into. We look at both before we quote either one.
Why sizing and ducts come before the equipment
Swapping in a unit the same tonnage as the old one is the easiest quote to write and often the wrong one. A Texas attic changes the load on a house year to year as insulation ages and duct runs sag, and equipment sized off the old nameplate instead of the house in front of us can end up short-cycling or barely keeping up on the hottest days. We size to the house first, then pick the equipment that matches it.
What we're actually checking in your attic
Static pressure across the whole duct system, not just at the unit. Whether the trunk and branch runs are insulated and sealed the way they should be, whether they're kinked or crushed anywhere they shouldn't be, and whether the layout still makes sense for how the house is used now. A new condenser and coil bolted onto a duct system that's fighting the airflow will never perform the way the spec sheet says it should.
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An install is a duct job as much as an equipment job
One of our own customers put this better than a spec sheet could.
"When his crew arrived, they took their time to do the job right, including re-routing some of the duct work to make the attic more accessible."
That's the difference between an install and a swap. A crew that only cares about getting a new box on the pad will leave the duct runs exactly as they found them, even if they're crimped behind a truss or routed somewhere nobody can service them again. Rerouting a run while the attic is already open costs almost nothing extra at install time and saves real time on every service call after it.
It's also why we walk the whole system before we talk equipment. Duct condition, insulation, and how the branch runs are laid out all change what the new unit actually needs to do, and none of it shows up if the only thing being measured is the old unit's tonnage.