AC Repair & HVAC Service in Orange Park, FL

Start with the breakers and the outdoor disconnect, because an outage frequently trips one and nothing else is wrong. If those are fine, the next most likely thing is a control board rather than the compressor — boards are the cheapest component in the system to damage and the easiest to mistake for a total failure.

That is common enough that we look for it. A surge can weaken a capacitor or a contactor without finishing it, and the part then fails under load a day or a week later. It looks like coincidence and it is usually cause and effect.

Rarely, and that is worth knowing before somebody quotes you one. A direct strike is genuinely destructive and it is also uncommon. Far more often what reaches your equipment is a surge down the line, and what it finds is the low‑voltage electronics. We will show you what is actually dead.

In this part of the state it is a reasonable thing to ask about, and it is a category rather than a magic box — protection at the panel and protection at the equipment do different jobs. It will not stop a direct strike. It does deal with the everyday surges that quietly shorten the life of a control board.

Then you want somebody who will write down what actually failed and why, with the readings, rather than a line that says the system is bad. We will document what we found in plain terms. What we will not do is describe damage we did not measure.

That depends on what the storm actually did, which is why we look before answering. If a surge killed a board on a twenty‑year‑old system, you are choosing between a modest repair on old equipment and a replacement you were probably heading toward anyway. Both are legitimate. You should get the numbers for each.

Switching it off at the thermostat does very little. Killing power at the breaker does more, and it is a reasonable thing to do if a severe storm is genuinely overhead. What we would not recommend is doing it every time the sky darkens in July, because the humidity that builds while it is off has its own cost.

A full seasonal check‑over of the system you already have — measurements taken, the parts that genuinely foul cleaned, and a straight answer about what needs attention and what does not. Out here it is also when we check the electrical connections and the contactor, which is where storm wear shows up first. Cannot be combined with any other offer, one per household.

It will. Nothing has been removing water from the air, and in a Florida summer that adds up quickly. Running the system normally again fixes most of it; where it does not, the filter and the indoor coil are the places to look rather than assuming the worst about the walls.

Regularly. Orange Park, Kingsley, Doctors Lake, Oakleaf and the streets off Blanding are all inside the normal service area at the same pricing as anywhere else we go. Great Dane is licensed in Florida as CAC036942, which you are welcome to look up before you let anybody into the house.

Yes, and after a storm that matters more than usual, because it is exactly when people get told the system is finished. A tripped breaker and a dead board are both very different from a dead system, and you will be told which one you have.

Three things that cost nothing. Check the breaker for the air handler and for the outdoor unit, and check the disconnect box outside — after an outage that is the answer more often than anything else. Look at the filter. And note whether the outdoor fan is turning at all; that one detail narrows it a long way.