Stone Oak filled in fast in the 2000s, so a lot of its air conditioners are reaching their twenties together. Alamo Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning repairs, replaces and maintains air conditioners, furnaces, heat pumps and ductless systems across 78258 and 78260, and we size every replacement floor by floor.
Two stories, often two systems, and an upstairs that never quite cools. We read the airflow on each floor before anyone quotes equipment, so you know which unit needs what.
We put in Goodman, Trane, Bosch, Ruud and Mitsubishi systems, and we repair whatever brand the builder left you. In a house this size, the way the system is sized and installed decides how comfortable each floor feels.
Air ConditioningFrom May to October, the upstairs unit in a Stone Oak house does the hardest work, pushing air through ducts in a blazing attic. We diagnose before we price anything and carry capacitors and contactors with us, so those parts are usually swapped in a single trip. When a builder-grade unit is finished, the new one is sized to the floor it serves, not to whatever the builder installed.
HeatingFurnace repair in Stone Oak rarely feels urgent until a January cold snap tests every system on the street at once. Each fall we inspect the igniter and flame sensor and check the heat exchanger for cracks, so the part that would have failed gets replaced while it is still a routine call.
DuctlessPlenty of Stone Oak builders paired a gas furnace with a split air conditioner, and when both hit twenty years, a heat pump can replace the pair with one system. Mini-splits handle the rooms the original layout forgot, like the bonus room over the garage, a home office or a converted media room.
Air QualityWhen the upstairs runs hot, the cause is usually airflow rather than a weak unit, and a bigger system will not solve it. We read static pressure and walk the duct runs, then suggest sealing, new runs or dehumidification only where the readings point.
With two systems aging side by side, one missed tune-up doubles the risk. Our maintenance plans put both units on a twice-a-year schedule, and Davy Crockett members avoid the after-hours surcharge on evenings and weekends.
Stone Oak grew quickly after its 1985 master plan, and four things about that growth change how HVAC work gets done here.
The median Stone Oak home dates to about 2005, and 43 percent were built between 2000 and 2009, so original systems are wearing out across the district at once. Units from those years often still run R-22, a phased-out refrigerant that makes a leak expensive to fix.
Homes here average close to 2,900 square feet and most have two floors, so they usually carry two systems or one zoned system. When one unit fails, it pays to check both floors before pricing a replacement.
Stone Oak sits inside San Antonio, bounded by Loop 1604, Wilderness Oak, Blanco Road and US 281, so mechanical permits are issued by the City of San Antonio Development Services Department. The city asks for a registered contractor and treats gas, all-electric and larger systems differently.
About 35 subdivisions make up Stone Oak, many of them gated, and the indoor unit in a two-story home usually sits in an upstairs closet or attic. Sorting out gate access and how the old unit comes down before install day keeps the job on schedule.
You can read the city’s residential construction requirements on the San Antonio Development Services Department site.
Before you choose a quote, ask the company: did you check each floor separately, or did you just match the size of what is there now?
No calendar and no time slots. Tap your answers to see your fee, then call or send a request and a person calls you back to set a time.
$119 diagnostic for a weekday visit, credited toward the repair once you approve it.
$180 diagnostic for an evening or weekend visit, credited toward the repair once you approve it.
Free written replacement estimate, with no diagnostic fee.
We confirm tune-up pricing when we call. Ongoing visits are covered by our maintenance plans.
A request is not a booking. Someone calls you back to agree a time.
We cover three counties, with Bexar in the middle and Comal and Guadalupe to the northeast. In Stone Oak’s 78258 and 78260 ZIP codes, that means two-story cooling, furnace and heat pump service, and duct fixes for hot upstairs rooms.
On the roadWe check each floor, write the price down and install what we sized. Tell us how your Stone Oak system is acting and we will go from there.
Tell us what's going on and we'll call you to get it scheduled.