How often does HVAC equipment need maintenance in Central Texas?

A cooling season that runs May through October puts more hours on a Waco-area system in one summer than some northern systems see in three. Runtime is what wears equipment: contactors pit, capacitors drift out of spec, coils mat with debris, and drain lines grow algae. A spring visit catches the marginal parts while replacing them is a scheduled errand instead of a 104-degree emergency.

The fall side is shorter but higher-stakes. Heating equipment sits idle for nine months, then gets slammed by the first cold front. Igniters and flame sensors fail on first call-up — which is exactly why the first freezing morning is the busiest day of our winter. Gas systems also deserve an annual combustion check, because a cracked heat exchanger is a carbon monoxide problem, not a comfort problem.

Skip maintenance and nothing bad happens — until it does, at the worst possible time, at emergency pricing. Our maintenance and tune-up page covers what a seasonal visit actually includes.