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Service area · Spicewood, TX

AC repair, replacement and maintenance in Spicewood, TX.

Hilltop custom homes and lake ranchettes — multiple systems per property, propane, and long distances between them.

Lennox condensing unit on a pad against a Texas limestone wall, its refrigerant line set and electrical disconnect run up the stone, with an iron fence and green lawn behind it.

On the ground

Spicewood sits west of Bee Cave along the Pedernales and the upper reach of Lake Travis, and it is a genuinely rural-feeling place with expensive housing in it. Barton Creek Lakeside, the lake-side neighborhoods, and a great many custom homes and ranchettes on multi-acre tracts. Houses here are frequently large, frequently on hilltops, and frequently running two or three systems plus a shop or guest house with its own.

The building conditions are Hill Country: limestone and thin soil, steep drives, big glass facing views that happen to face west, and outdoor units set wherever the grade allowed rather than where a technician would have chosen. Long line sets are common, which matters more than people think — charge has to be adjusted for line length and a system commissioned as though the line set were fifteen feet will underperform for its whole life.

Utilities are the other constant. Propane rather than natural gas on most properties, wells with hard water, and power that is more exposed than it is in town. That combination pushes a lot of Spicewood work toward heat pumps, careful drain treatment, and equipment choices that tolerate the conditions rather than assume suburban ones.

Local HVAC realities

What actually fails on systems here.

  • Large hilltop homes routinely run two or three systems plus outbuildings
  • Long line sets require charge adjustment that frequently was never done
  • Propane heating and well water are the norm rather than the exception
  • West-facing view glass creates severe late-afternoon solar loads
Carrier gas furnace standing on an attic platform, with a yellow flexible gas connector, a metal flue rising through the framing and insulated flex duct runs overhead.

What we do most here

The work this city actually calls about.

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Neighborhoods we work

Across Spicewood.

  • Barton Creek Lakeside
  • Spicewood Beach
  • Briarcliff
  • Summit at Lake Travis
  • Pace Bend area
  • Highway 71 corridor
  • Pedernales acreage

Not an exhaustive list — if your neighborhood is not named, we almost certainly still cover it. Call and ask.

Questions from this city

Spicewood — straight answers.

Our new system has never cooled as well as we expected. Why?

On Spicewood properties the two usual suspects are line set length and equipment placement. A long line set needs additional charge weighed in for it; a condenser tucked against a rock face or a wall recirculates its own discharge air. Both are checkable, and both are fixable.

We have systems in the house, the guest house and the shop. Do you handle all of it?

Yes, and maintenance is priced per system so you can see exactly what each one costs. The outbuilding unit is nearly always the one that has been ignored longest.

Do you service Barton Creek Lakeside and the Pace Bend side?

Yes, along with the acreage properties off 71 and along the Pedernales. Gate codes and access notes are helpful when you call.

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Service call · $100

HVAC service in Spicewood, from a family business in Austin.

Call or text (512) 840-8112. A technician comes out for a flat $100, evaluates the system and identifies the issue. If you approve the repair, the $100 is credited toward it. If you decide against the repair, the $100 stands as the fee for the visit. Any repair or replacement is quoted from what we actually find.

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