Commercial HVAC Maintenance and Repair
Rooftop units, splits, boilers and heating — serviced before the first cold snap or the first heatwave finds the fault for you.
Fully licensed & EPA-certified · Serving New Jersey, New York & Pennsylvania
Commercial HVAC fails at the two most inconvenient moments of the year: the first properly hot week and the first properly cold one. Both are predictable, and both are what planned maintenance exists to prevent. We service rooftop units, split systems, boilers and heating across New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
What a maintenance visit covers
- Filters checked and replaced — the cheapest fix with the biggest effect on running cost
- Condenser and evaporator coils cleaned
- Refrigerant charge checked and leaks traced
- Belts, bearings, motors and blower assemblies inspected
- Thermostats and controls calibrated
- Condensate drains and pans cleared
- Electrical connections, contactors and capacitors tested
- Heat exchangers and burners inspected on heating systems
- Airflow and temperature split measured and recorded
What we are usually called for
Rooftop unit running but not cooling
Low refrigerant, a dirty condenser, or a failed compressor contactor.
Common, and usually straightforward if it is caught before the compressor suffers.
Some rooms fine, others not
Airflow or zoning — blocked returns, a failed damper, or ductwork that was never balanced.
Measurable, and fixable, rather than something to live with.
Heating not firing
Ignition, flame sensor, gas valve, or a safety lockout doing its job for a reason.
Do not keep resetting it. A lockout that repeats is telling you something.
Water dripping from a ceiling unit
Blocked condensate drain or a cracked pan.
Fast to fix, and far cheaper than the ceiling it is ruining.
Common questions
How often should commercial HVAC be serviced?
Twice a year is standard — once before cooling season and once before heating season. Systems running continuously, or in dusty or greasy environments such as kitchens, need more.
Do you cover heating as well as cooling?
Yes. Rooftop units, split systems, boilers and heating are all covered, so you are not calling two different companies in two different seasons.
Can you work out of hours?
Yes. Most planned HVAC work is done outside trading hours so we are not disturbing your customers or your staff.
How do I get invoices, reports or a certificate of insurance?
Our customers pull them from the client app themselves, at any hour, without waiting for the office to open. You can also request a COI in a couple of taps and it goes straight to our insurance agent.
Do you cover my area?
We work across New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. See areas served, or call and ask — we would rather tell you straight away than have you wait.
Where we work
We cover New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, including Elizabeth, Jersey City, Northern New Jersey and Eastern New Jersey. Check our service areas, or just call — if we cannot get to you in time we will say so rather than waste your afternoon.
What we service
Rooftop units
The most common commercial setup and the most neglected, because nobody walks past them. Rooftop units sit in weather all year, pull debris through their condensers, and are usually only noticed when the building gets uncomfortable. Filters, coils and belts are the bulk of what keeps them working.
Split systems and ductless units
Common in offices, back-of-house areas and smaller premises. Indoor coils get dirty, condensate drains block and drip through ceilings, and outdoor units get boxed in by whatever has been stacked around them since installation.
Boilers and heating
Heating faults cluster in the first cold week of the year, when a system that has sat idle since spring is asked to work. Ignition components, flame sensors and safety lockouts are the usual culprits, and a lockout that keeps recurring is a system telling you something rather than a nuisance to reset.
Ventilation and air movement
Kitchens in particular depend on the balance between extract and make-up air. Get it wrong and doors become hard to open, extraction underperforms, and the heating or cooling fights a losing battle all day.
Seasonal timing
Service cooling in spring
Before the first hot week, not during it.
The week everyone discovers a problem is the week nobody has availability.
Service heating in early autumn
Before the first cold snap finds the fault for you.
Heating faults cluster in the same fortnight every year, for the same reason.
Change filters more often than you think
Kitchens, workshops and busy public spaces load filters far faster than an office.
The cheapest thing on this page and the one with the biggest effect on running cost.
Clear the space around outdoor units
Deliveries, bins and stock get stacked around condensers over time.
Free, and it measurably reduces how hard the system works.
We work on equipment from every major manufacturer, and on systems installed by other contractors. You do not need to know what you have before you call — tell us what it looks like and what it is doing, and we will work it out from there.
Comfort complaints that are not faults
A good proportion of the "it is too hot in here" calls we attend turn out to be airflow or zoning rather than equipment failure — blocked returns, a failed damper, or ductwork that was never balanced after a refit. Those are measurable and fixable, and worth checking before anyone spends money on new plant.
What a service plan covers
- Two visits a year as standard, more for heavy or dirty environments
- Filters replaced, not just inspected
- Condenser and evaporator coils cleaned
- Refrigerant charge checked, leaks traced
- Belts, bearings and motors inspected and replaced before failure
- Thermostats and controls calibrated
- Condensate drains and pans cleared before they overflow
- Electrical connections torqued, contactors and capacitors tested
- Burners, heat exchangers and flues inspected on heating systems
- Airflow and temperature split measured and recorded
- A written report after every visit, available in the app
Kitchens are harder on HVAC than offices
Grease-laden air loads filters and coils far faster than anything in an office, and a kitchen extract system that is out of balance makes every other system in the building work harder. If we are already on site for refrigeration, having us look at the HVAC at the same time usually costs very little extra and finds things that would otherwise surface in July.
Running costs
HVAC is usually the largest single energy load in a commercial building, and most of the waste is mundane: blocked filters, dirty coils, a thermostat nobody has looked at since it was installed, and heating and cooling fighting each other in adjacent zones. None of that is glamorous and all of it is measurable.
Replacement
Eventually a rooftop unit stops being worth repairing — usually when the compressor goes on a unit already near the end of its life, or when the refrigerant it uses is no longer sensibly available. We will tell you when you are at that point, with both figures, rather than quietly selling you another repair each year.
Too hot, too cold, or just noisy?
We cover heating and cooling as well as refrigeration — one company for the whole building.