Air Conditioning · Brevard County
Cool Ridge Air
Manny Ocampo · Owner, working on Florida systems since 2011 · Fictional demonstration
In Florida the system runs most of the year, and that changes everything about it.
Half the calls are a system that quit in August. The other half are people who would rather it did not.
Manny Ocampo has worked on Florida air conditioning since 2011 - repair, replacement, and the servicing a system needs when it runs most of the year rather than three months of it. He sizes a replacement against the house you actually have instead of against the unit that was there before, and he puts a repair and a replacement side by side in writing so you can see whether an older system is worth keeping.
Who runs it
He comes to the house himself on a replacement. The size of the system gets decided off the windows, the insulation, the ceiling height and which way the house faces - not off the label on the old one, which is how a house ends up with a system that was wrong from the day it was fitted.
The telephone is answered by somebody who does the work. On the day it stops in August, that is the difference between an answer and a message.
What they do
- 01Emergency repair
Seven days. The telephone is answered by a technician rather than by a service that takes a message and passes it on.
- 02Replacement and right sizing
Sized to the house you have. An oversized system cools quickly, never runs long enough to dry the air, and leaves a house that is cold and still damp.
- 03Maintenance
Twice a year. Coils, drains and the parts that fail quietly some months before they fail loudly.
- 04Ducts
Inspected and sealed. Most Florida ducts run through an attic far hotter than the house, and what leaks up there never reaches a room.
- 05Air handlers and thermostats
The half of the system that lives in a closet and gets forgotten about until water appears on the floor.
- 06Humidity and air quality
A house that is cold and still feels wrong is usually a humidity problem rather than a temperature one.
Who it does not suit
It does not suit somebody who wants a unit swapped and nothing else looked at, anybody who wants the ducts left alone on a replacement, or commercial and industrial systems, which are a different business.
Track record
- 2011
- On Florida systems since
- Seven days
- Emergency line, answered by a technician
- Brevard
- County served
How a replacement is decided
- 1Somebody comes and looks
At the house, not at the old unit on its own. Windows, insulation, ceiling height and which way it faces all change the answer.
- 2Repair and replacement, side by side
Both written down, so the decision is yours rather than somebody else's.
- 3The system is sized
To this house. Bigger is not better here and never has been.
- 4The ducts are looked at first
Before anything is ordered. A new system on leaking ducts underperforms from the first day it runs.
- 5The changeover
Usually one day. Old system out, new one in, and the drain, the pad and the electrics done properly.
- 6It gets checked again
After it has run through real Florida weather, not only on the afternoon it was switched on.
Reach them
- Telephone
- (321) 555-XXXX
- Services in
- Florida
manny@coolridgeair.example
coolridgeair.example
Who it suits
This suits a system more than ten years old, and a house that is cold and still feels damp. It suits somebody buying a house who wants to know what is left in the system before they own it, and anyone who has been handed a replacement sized off the old unit's label rather than off the house. It suits a second home or a seasonal house that sits empty for months, and anybody who has never had a system run most of the year.
Have the system looked at before the first August in the house, not during it.
Call (321) 555-XXXX