Orlando, Florida
Air conditioner trouble in Orlando? Get connected with a local AC contractor.
Orlando homeowners, renters and landlords call us about repairs, routine service and new systems, and we connect each of them with a local air conditioning contractor. Call, or send a short request and the contractor gets in touch with you.
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We charge nothing for the call or the request, and whether you hire anyone is up to you.
- For repairs: no cooling, warm air, water leaks, frozen coils
- For service visits and tune-ups ahead of the wet season
- For new and replacement systems and the permit they need
- For houses, rentals and condos in the city of Orlando
What people call about
Pick the job that sounds like yours
Each page explains one kind of work and the Orlando and Florida rules that apply to it. If reading is the last thing you want to do, call and say what the system is doing.
Air conditioning repair
The system has stopped, blows warm air or leaks water. What each symptom can mean and what a repair visit involves.
HVAC
Heat pumps, heat strips, ducts and humidity: how a whole system behaves in Orlando’s climate.
HVAC company
How to look up any HVAC company’s Florida license and ask about insurance and permits before you hire.
AC service
Tune-ups, drain lines and coils, and getting a system ready for the wet season and for storms.
AC installation
Replacing a system: sizing, efficiency minimums, refrigerants, permits and utility rebates.
How it works
What happens after you call or write
Call or send the form
We take the call or the form, note what you need and where the property is, and connect you with an independent air conditioning contractor who works in Orlando. If you would sooner write, the form reaches the same place.
Describe the symptom
No cooling, warm air, water under the air handler, ice on the line, or a system that is simply old. Mention anything you have already checked.
The contractor takes it from there
The contractor arranges any visit, finds the fault and gives you a price before work starts. Whether the work goes ahead is for you and the contractor to settle.
Look the license up
Get the contractor’s Florida license number and run it through the state’s public search. Do it before you say yes to anything.
Orlando conditions
An Orlando air conditioner’s year in four numbers
All four come from the National Weather Service office in Melbourne, which keeps Orlando’s climate record, and together they explain why cooling systems here work as long as they do.
About 110 days at 90 or hotter
A normal year at Orlando International Airport has 109.9 days with a high of 90 degrees or more. The year 2025 had 125.
3,452 cooling degree days
That is the normal yearly cooling demand for Orlando, against 525 heating degree days. Cooling outweighs heating by more than six to one.
29.57 inches in four months
Normal rainfall from June through September, about 57 percent of the year’s total. All the moisture a system takes out of the house leaves through one small drain line.
Thunder on 119 days
The weather service recorded thunderstorms at Orlando International Airport on 119 days in 2025. Storm season and cooling season are the same months.
What we connect you with
Five kinds of air conditioning work, each with its own page
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People call about air conditioning for a handful of reasons, and each comes with its own rules in Florida. A full page on each sets out what to expect and what to ask before a contractor arrives.
Something is wrong right now
A system that has stopped, cools poorly or is dripping water needs a diagnosis before anything else, and that is a contractor’s job. Our page on air conditioning repair in Orlando is the place to start: the checks that are safe to make yourself, what each symptom can point to, and how the federal refrigerant rules bear on an older system.
It works, and you want it to keep working
A yearly check-up is how faults get caught early. AC service in Orlando covers what a tune-up should include, why the drain line deserves so much attention in this climate, and how to get a system ready for hurricane season.
It is time for a new one
Replacing a system brings in a load calculation, a federal efficiency minimum, a choice of refrigerant and a permit. AC installation in Orlando takes them in order and names the rebate programs of OUC and Duke Energy.
You want to understand the whole system
Rooms that never cool, a house that feels damp at 75 degrees, a heat pump against heat strips: these are questions about the system as a whole. HVAC in Orlando explains the equipment, the ducts and the humidity targets.
You are deciding whom to hire
Florida licenses air conditioning contractors at state level, and the record is public. HVAC company in Orlando shows how to look it up, what insurance the licensing board requires and what a deposit obliges a contractor to do.
Climate
What Orlando’s weather asks of a cooling system
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Orlando’s climate is humid subtropical. The figures below are the National Weather Service’s 1991 to 2020 normals for Orlando International Airport, month by month for the heart of the cooling season and for the two coolest months.
| Month | Normal high | Normal low | Normal rainfall |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 71.8 F | 49.5 F | 2.48 in |
| June | 90.8 F | 71.6 F | 8.05 in |
| July | 92.0 F | 73.2 F | 7.46 in |
| August | 91.6 F | 73.7 F | 7.69 in |
| September | 89.6 F | 72.4 F | 6.37 in |
| December | 73.8 F | 52.9 F | 2.48 in |
| Whole year | 83.2 F | 62.7 F | 51.45 in |
Two things stand out. Night brings little relief in the hot months, with normal lows above 71 degrees from June through September, so a system keeps working after dark. And the heat arrives with the rain: the weather service puts the median start of Orlando’s wet season at May 27 and the median start of its dry season at October 15.
That combination is why so much of what goes wrong here involves water. An air conditioner dries the air as it cools it, the water has to drain away, and a blocked drain either shuts the system down or lets water out where it should not be. It is also why the size of a system matters so much in a humid city. University of Florida extension notes that an over-sized air conditioner cools a home too quickly to remove moisture well, which leaves the rooms cool and clammy.
Salt is the one Florida hazard that mostly stays away. Orlando lies about 42 miles inland from the Atlantic, and the corrosion that eats outdoor units at the beach is a coastal problem. Heat, standing water and mold are the local ones.
Rules
City, county and state: who decides what
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Three levels of government touch an air conditioning job in Orlando, and knowing which does what saves confusion.
- The state licenses the contractor. Florida’s Construction Industry Licensing Board, part of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, licenses air conditioning and mechanical contractors. Anyone can look a license up on the department’s license search.
- The city or the county issues the permit. Inside the city limits a replacement system needs a mechanical permit from the City of Orlando’s Permitting Services. In unincorporated Orange County it comes from the County’s Division of Building Safety. They are two separate offices, and a mailing address that says Orlando can belong to either.
- The federal government sets the equipment rules. Minimum efficiency comes from the Department of Energy’s regulations, and the rules on refrigerants, and on who may handle them, come from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Swapping a failed part, such as a capacitor, needs no permit: the Florida Building Code exempts the replacement of any part that does not alter the equipment’s approval or make it unsafe. Replacing the equipment does need one. The permit exemption for small jobs on single-family homes, in section 553.79(1)(g) of the Florida Statutes, does not change that, because it excludes mechanical work by name.
Storm season
Hurricanes, floods and your air conditioner
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The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. Because Orlando is inland, storms have usually weakened by the time they reach it, and for an air conditioner the danger is water and lost power as much as wind.
Official guidance comes down to a few points. When the power fails, switch the system off so that it does not restart on its own when power returns. After a flood, do not run a system that stood in water until a professional has checked and cleaned it, because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that a contaminated system spreads mold through the house. And before you hire anyone for storm repairs, look up the license: contracting without one during a state of emergency declared by the Governor is a felony in Florida.
Preparing a system for the season is covered on our AC service page. What to do with one that has been through a storm is on our repair page.
Where
Orlando neighborhoods we connect callers from
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There are 115 neighborhoods inside the city limits, and calls come from all parts of the city. A partial list: College Park, Audubon Park, Baldwin Park, Colonialtown, Lake Eola Heights, Thornton Park, South Eola, Lake Cherokee, Delaney Park, Wadeview Park, Lake Como, Dover Shores, Engelwood Park, Rosemont, Washington Shores, Richmond Heights, Parramore, MetroWest, Millenia, Vista East, Storey Park and Lake Nona.
The housing differs as much as the names. Around Lake Eola and Lake Cherokee the City’s historic districts hold houses from the 1880s to the 1920s. Baldwin Park, on the former Naval Training Center, dates from 2003 onward, and Lake Nona is a planned community of 17 square miles southeast of the airport.
Most Orlando households rent: the Census Bureau’s figures for 2020 to 2024 give the city an owner-occupancy rate of 39.5 percent. If you rent, the air conditioner belongs to your landlord, and the decision to repair it is usually theirs. If you own a rental, a contractor will need your say-so and a way into the property.
Not everything called Orlando is the City of Orlando. Winter Park, Maitland and Apopka are separate cities in Orange County, Altamonte Springs is a city in Seminole County, and Kissimmee is the county seat of Osceola County. Pine Hills and Conway are not cities at all. They are unincorporated communities in Orange County, so the County’s office, not the City’s, is the one that issues permits there. Wherever the property is, say so when you call.
Good to know
Before you call: common questions
Does Air Conditioning Repair Orlando do the repair work itself?
No. Air Conditioning Repair Orlando is a referral service, not a contractor. You call or write, and we connect you with an independent air conditioning contractor in Orlando. Any work, price or warranty is agreed between you and that contractor.
Does it cost anything to call or send a request?
We charge you nothing, and you are under no obligation to hire anyone. A contractor may charge for a visit to diagnose the system, so ask the contractor about that before a visit is booked.
Who answers when I call?
We do. We ask what the system is doing and where the property is, then connect you with an independent contractor who works in Orlando. If you send the form instead, we pass what you wrote to a contractor, who contacts you.
What should I have ready?
Where the property is and, if you know it, whether it is inside the city limits. The symptom. A rough idea of the system’s age. Whether you are the owner or a tenant. If someone in the home is elderly, very young or unwell, say so at the start.
How do I check a contractor’s license?
Ask for the Florida license number and search it at myfloridalicense.com, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s site. Check that the record is in the company’s name and that the license is current. Do this for any contractor, however you found them.
Do I need a permit?
Not to have a failed part replaced. A replacement system needs a mechanical permit, from the City of Orlando inside the city limits and from Orange County in the unincorporated area. Ask the contractor to confirm that it will apply for one.
Send a request
Describe the problem and where the property is
Send the details below. We receive them and pass them to a local air conditioning contractor, who gets in touch with you. When the house is already hot, a call is the quicker route.
- Say what the system is doing and where the property is
- An independent contractor in the Orlando area receives your request from us
- The price and the decision stay between you and the contractor
Want a local contractor to look at your system?
Call, or send the request form. We connect you with a local air conditioning contractor, who contacts you about the job.
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