AC Repair in Las Vegas, NV
AC Repair in Las Vegas can mean a $200 fix or a $4,000 job depending on what's actually wrong. We figure it out before quoting. Three things you can count on: we show up when we say we will, we quote before we work, and we don't pad the bill.
Notes on Las Vegas housing stock
Our techs know the Las Vegas area: housing stock, soil, water main configurations, the parts that usually fail first.
Most of our Las Vegas ac repair jobs come from older neighborhoods, where the housing stock just has more failure points.
What a typical call looks like
Last spring we got a call from a homeowner near the east Las Vegas. Ac running but blowing room-temperature air on a 102°f day. Diagnosis: refrigerant leak at the suction line schrader valve. We located leak with electronic detector, sealed and recharged, system back to spec in under 90 minutes, ran the test, and were out the door in under 90 minutes. Total: $820 including parts.
What you're paying for
Most AC repair calls come down to one of six causes: low refrigerant from a slow leak, failed capacitor, failed contactor, dirty condenser coil, blower motor failure, or compressor failure.
The diagnostic determines which. We run refrigerant pressures (high and low side), superheat/subcool calculation, voltage at the contactor, capacitor microfarads, and a temperature-split test on the supply and return.
About 60% of summer no-cool calls turn out to be one of three things: low refrigerant ($240-$650 to find and seal the leak, plus refrigerant), bad capacitor ($165-$325 to replace), or dirty condenser ($95-$195 to clean).
Compressor failures are the expensive ones — $1,800 to $3,800 typically. On any unit over 10 years old, we walk through the math on repair vs. replace before quoting the compressor swap.
Ballpark numbers
For ac repair jobs in the Las Vegas area:
- Diagnostic visit: $90 – $130
- Capacitor replacement: $165 – $325
- Refrigerant leak find + seal + recharge: $240 – $650
- Condenser coil cleaning: $95 – $195
- Contactor replacement: $185 – $340
- Blower motor replacement: $420 – $880
- Compressor replacement: $1,800 – $3,800