Heating & cooling
AC & HVAC repair in Burlingame.
Heating and cooling split along El Camino Real, from Lyon-Hoag bungalows to Hillsborough-line remodels.
Burlingame sits on the SFO corridor between Millbrae and Hillsborough, split across 94010 and 94011, and El Camino Real marks a real line in the HVAC work too. East of El Camino, the Lyon-Hoag and Easton Addition bungalows were mostly built with wall or floor heat and no ductwork, the marine layer off the bay keeping summers mild enough that central air was never standard.
West of El Camino and up toward Hillsborough, the remodeled homes came in with full ducted systems, and a lot of that equipment is now old enough for the standard failures: a weak capacitor, a stuck contactor, or a refrigerant leak that's been getting topped off instead of properly diagnosed. Furnace calls on the older bungalow side are more often a thermocouple, an igniter, or a pressure switch.
We run Burlingame with the Millbrae and San Mateo leg of our Mid-Peninsula route, about 55 to 70 minutes from our San Ramon base. EPA Section 608 Universal certified, CSLB #1136642. The diagnostic is $99, credited toward the repair when you book it, with a written itemized quote before work begins.
Lyon-Hoag bungalows with no existing ducting
A lot of the older bungalows east of El Camino were built for heat only. Adding cooling here usually means a ductless mini-split rather than cutting duct chases into a house that was never designed for them. We install Mitsubishi and Daikin, both factory trained, and we route line sets in a plan you sign off on before we drill anything. See ductless mini-split repair.
Hillsborough-line remodels and aging ducted systems
The bigger homes toward Hillsborough came in with full ducted systems, and enough of that equipment is now fifteen to twenty-five years old that capacitor and contactor failures are the regular no-cool call. We meter the actual part before quoting, so you're not paying for a compressor you don't need. See AC repair.
Replacing an old furnace: the heat pump question
When a furnace on either side of town finally reaches the end, a heat pump conversion often makes sense in this climate, one system for heating and cooling instead of two. Electricity here runs through Peninsula Clean Energy, gas through PG&E, and we confirm what's actually funding a rebate at the time we write your estimate rather than quoting numbers from memory. For new equipment, see HVAC installation.
Common questions, Burlingame.
- My bungalow east of El Camino has no central air. What can you do?
A ductless mini-split is the standard fix for a Lyon-Hoag or Easton Addition bungalow with no ducting. We plan head placement and line-set routing with you before anything gets drilled, and we're factory trained on Mitsubishi and Daikin.
- Do you service the bigger ducted systems near Hillsborough?
Yes. Those systems are old enough now that capacitor, contactor, and refrigerant-leak failures are common. We meter the actual failed part before quoting anything.
- What does an HVAC service call cost in Burlingame?
The diagnostic is $99, credited toward the repair when you book it with us, with a written quote before work begins. We hold EPA Section 608 Universal certification and CSLB license #1136642.
Heating & cooling