AC maintenance is scheduled preventive work on a system that is still running, as distinct from repairing one that has failed. TLS Air Conditioning maintains residential systems across ten Florida counties. The 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning is $189, and static pressure is measured on every visit — a measurement most maintenance calls never take.
Call 941-269-3433 and ask for Courtney. She books maintenance onto the schedule while you are on the phone, and the technician who arrives is a TLS employee who leaves you a written report of every value he measured.
Florida State Certified contractor, licence CAC1822364.
A 31-point AC tune-up is a measured inspection of the refrigerant circuit, airflow, electrical components, condensate system, coils and controls, finishing with a written record of every reading. TLS charges $189 for the 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning. It takes roughly ninety minutes on a single system, longer if the coils need real cleaning.
We work all thirty-one in the same order on every visit, and every one of them lands on the written report you are handed before the technician leaves your driveway — the reading where there is a reading, the condition where there is not. That report is what you are buying for $189. The ninety minutes is how it gets made.
Six of those thirty-one points are measurements with a number attached, and those are the ones that decide whether the visit was worth paying for. A technician who looks at an air conditioner and pronounces it fine has told you nothing you could check later. A technician who writes down that the capacitor read 43.1 microfarads against a printed rating of 45 has told you the system will probably need a capacitor before next August.
A TLS maintenance visit takes about ninety minutes. A TLS employee arrives inside a booked window, works the 31 points in order with a manometer, a clamp meter and gauges, washes the condenser coil, clears the condensate drain, then hands you a written report of every value measured before he leaves.
You get a written report listing every measured value from the 31-point tune-up — pressures, superheat, subcooling, temperature split, static pressure, amperage draws and capacitor microfarads — with the equipment model and serial numbers, the date and the technician’s name. TLS keeps a copy, and the invoice carries the readings.
The thirty-one points with a value beside each one, not a tick beside each one. It is the document that lets you compare this February’s capacitor reading to last February’s and see a part drifting before it strands you.
$189 for the 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning, with the static pressure reading on it and any parts fitted itemised separately. No line appears on it that was not agreed with you first.
Every report is filed against your address in Pinellas Park, so when a manufacturer’s claims department wants seven years of service history you ring the office instead of searching a drawer.
A homeowner who has had three tune-ups from three different companies usually has three pieces of paper that say “system operating normally” and nothing else. That is the difference this page is arguing for: a number you can check, held by a company that still has it years later.
Twice a year in Florida, not once. Tampa records about 3,928 cooling degree days annually against a US figure of 1,633, so a system here carries 2.4 times the seasonal load. Five months of Florida run time equals a full northern year, which is why once-a-year-in-spring advice is written for somebody else’s climate.
TLS books both visits in one call. Courtney puts the February-to-April tune-up and the wet-season visit on the schedule together rather than leaving the second one to be remembered in September, which is the month it never is remembered in.
Every national maintenance article is written for a climate with a winter. In Pinellas Park, Cape Coral and the barrier islands the cooling season does not end; it thins out for a few weeks in January and starts again.
This service area has coastline on both sides. Salt attacks aluminium condenser fins and the copper behind them, and corrosion is progressive — it does not wait for your annual appointment.
Average relative humidity here runs about 71%, so the system spends much of its working life pulling water out of the air. A Tampa air conditioner in August produces gallons of condensate a day, and every gallon of it goes through a narrow PVC line that stays warm, wet and dark for months.
The rain runs from roughly June through September, which is exactly when condensate volume, biological growth in the drain line and lightning activity all peak together.
Book the first visit between February and April, before the cooling load climbs, and the second between June and September, in the middle of the wet season. The first visit is the full 31 points. The second is weighted toward condensate, drainage and coil condition, which is what Florida summer actually attacks.
Why this windowThe system has just finished a year of salt and run hours, and the load is about to climb. Anything found here is repaired in a cool week rather than a hot one.
Why this windowThe three jobs that need no tools and prevent a real share of summer failures.
Why this windowWet season. This is when drain lines block, pans overflow and coils grow biological film.
Why this windowLightning and grid surges kill control boards and capacitors, and the damage is often silent until the next start-up.
Systems on the water in Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties, and seasonal homes that sit empty for months, are the two cases where more than twice a year is genuinely justified rather than sold.
AC maintenance in Florida costs $89 to $295 for a single tune-up visit, and $109 to $299 a year for a maintenance plan covering one or two visits. The TLS 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning is $189. The TLS Comfort Club is $99 a year and includes two of those visits. National cost guides quote $70 to $200, which sits below what the Florida west-coast market actually charges.
Our number is $189, and it is $189 in Naples and $189 in Tarpon Springs — one price list across all ten counties, whatever the drive. Anything the tune-up finds is quoted in writing before it is done, and under the No Change Order guarantee that quoted price does not move.
What Florida contractors charge. Benchmarked against five current west-coast Florida providers in August 2026, not against a national average. These are ranges, not quotes — your exact price is confirmed in writing after diagnosis and does not move after that.
| Service | Typical Florida range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Single AC tune-up or precision maintenance visit | $89 – $295 | The TLS 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning is $189. The spread reflects how many points are genuinely inspected |
| Two tune-up visits bought separately | $178 – $590 | Which is why a plan usually costs less than paying twice |
| Maintenance plan, one visit a year | $109 – $199 | The entry tier at most Florida contractors |
| Maintenance plan, two visits a year | $159 – $299 | The tier that matches the Florida cadence. The TLS Comfort Club is $99 |
| Premium plan, two visits plus larger repair discounts | $299 – $499 | |
| Each additional system in the same home | $89 – $139 | Nearly every plan in this market is priced per system |
| Standalone condensate drain line clearing | $145 – $450 | TLS charges $189, or $89 for Comfort Club members |
| Float switch fitted or replaced | $145 – $295 | A system without a working one has no protection against an overflow |
| Drain pan replacement | $399 – $799 | What a drain clog becomes when it is ignored for a season |
Three figures on that list are ours rather than the market’s: the $99 Comfort Club, the $189 tune-up and the $189 / $89 drain cleaning. All three are on the page so that a homeowner comparing three quotes can put us in the comparison without ringing us first.
Our tune-up is not the cheapest number in this market and it is not meant to be. A $89 tune-up buys somebody looking at your air conditioner; the extra buys the manometer, the meter readings, the coil wash and the written record of what was measured.
Yes, in Florida specifically. The TLS Comfort Club is $99 a year, against a Florida market of $159 to $299 for the same two visits — visits that would cost $178 to $590 bought separately. Comfort Club members also pay nothing for a diagnostic call that otherwise costs $125. One avoided capacitor failure in July, at $180 to $450, has already covered the difference.
The arithmetic changes if your system is over fifteen years old and already needs a decision rather than a plan. In that case book a single tune-up, get the measured readings, and use them to work out whether AC replacement makes better financial sense than another year of maintaining a system that is losing capacity. We will tell you which one we think it is.
AC maintenance prevents the failures that announce themselves without warning: a capacitor that drifts under its rating, a drain line that fills with biological growth, a condenser coil that loses heat transfer to salt corrosion, and a slow refrigerant leak. Each of those is measurable months before it strands you, and each is cheap to catch.
Every row below is a value a TLS technician reads with an instrument and writes on your report. A capacitor sitting 12% under its printed rating is a line on a $189 tune-up in February; the same capacitor is a $180 to $450 call-out on the first Saturday in July. You see the microfarad number either way and decide which one you would rather have.
| What the tune-up measures | What that catches early | What it costs once it fails |
|---|---|---|
| Run capacitor microfarad value | A capacitor reading 10–15% under its rating | $180 – $450, and it fails on the hottest day because that is the day it works hardest |
| Total external static pressure | Ductwork restricting the blower it was matched to | $450 – $1,300 for a blower motor, plus a compressor that has been running hot for years |
| Condensate line, pan and float switch | Biological growth building in a warm wet line | $189 to clear, or a ceiling and a drywall claim |
| Condenser coil and fin condition | Salt corrosion and rising head pressure | $2,500 – $5,500 for a compressor once the parts warranty has gone |
| Superheat and subcooling | A slow refrigerant leak, before the charge drops far enough to freeze the coil | $350 – $1,500, and rising every year as R-410A production steps down |
| Contactor contact condition | Pitting, arcing and ant intrusion in the outdoor unit | A silent outdoor unit in August and an after-hours call-out |
| Motor amperage against nameplate | A blower or condenser fan motor drawing above rating | $450 – $1,300, usually with the failed capacitor that caused it |
Those failure prices are the same ranges published on our AC repair page, where the diagnosis side of each fault is covered properly. Maintenance and repair are different jobs: maintenance measures a working system on a schedule, repair finds a fault in a system that has already stopped doing its job.
A condensate drain line clogs in Florida because it is warm, wet and dark for most of the year, which is ideal for algae and biological growth. An air conditioner here removes gallons of water a day during the wet season. That water leaves through one narrow PVC line, and biology colonises it.
Growth narrows the bore, water backs up into the primary pan, and from there the outcome depends entirely on whether the float switch works. A tested switch gives you a hot afternoon and a service call. An untested one gives you a restoration company, an insurance excess and a ceiling that never quite matches again.
Clearing a drain line is one of the cheapest jobs in this trade. TLS charges $189 for a standalone clearing and $89 for Comfort Club members, and it is included inside every 31-point tune-up rather than added afterwards. Point 23 matters as much as point 20: a drain line that has been cleared but sits above a float switch nobody has tested is only half-protected.
Static pressure is the load a duct system places on the blower pushing air through it, read in inches of water column at two test ports. Residential equipment is generally designed around 0.5 in. w.c., and past roughly 0.8 in. w.c. blower efficiency falls and blower life shortens. TLS takes the reading on every visit.
Every TLS van carries a digital manometer, and the technician takes the reading at two test ports either side of the air handler on every call we run — a fifteen-minute service call included. The number is compared against the external static pressure your blower is rated for on its own data plate, and it goes on your report and on your invoice. Most maintenance calls in this market never take it at all.
A tune-up that never measures airflow is checking half a system. Contractors who do measure static pressure routinely report that the large majority of the homes they enter are running higher than design — restricted returns, crushed flex, undersized duct, or a filter chosen for its rating rather than for the blower behind it. None of that is visible. All of it is measurable in about ten minutes with two test ports and a manometer.
Yes. Manufacturer warranties cover defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and maintenance, and exclude failures caused by neglect or improper maintenance. A dated professional maintenance record is what turns a parts claim into a paid parts claim. In Florida the coverage itself is stronger than most homeowners think, under two statutes passed in 2024.
We file a copy of every maintenance report against your address, so the service history exists whether or not you kept your copy. Point 31 is on the checklist for exactly this reason, and it is the only point on it that pays for itself years after the visit.
Florida Statute § 559.957 took effect on 1 July 2024 and ties the warranty term to the installation date on a Chapter 489 licensed installation, and it bars a warrantor from conditioning coverage on product registration.
The manufacturers’ own paperwork shows it working: Goodman’s published terms cut parts coverage from ten years to five if the owner does not register within sixty days, then exempt California, Florida, Georgia and Quebec from registering at all. So the coverage is usually longer than the homeowner assumes — and the maintenance record is what makes the length worth having.
Florida Statute § 559.956 carries the remaining coverage across to a purchaser at no charge, and forbids a transfer fee.
Before 2024 a stack of tune-up invoices was housekeeping. Now it is documentation the next owner inherits alongside live warranty coverage, and it is worth putting in the same folder as the survey and the roof paperwork.
Model and serial number, the installation date, and dated invoices showing professional maintenance with measured readings on them.
Point 31 of the tune-up exists for that reason, and we keep a copy of every report so you do not have to find yours seven years later.
Warranty wording varies by brand and by product line, so read the certificate that came with your own equipment. What does not vary is that “we have never had it serviced” is a poor sentence to say to a claims adjudicator on a $3,000 coil.
The TLS Comfort Club is a residential maintenance membership that covers two 31-point precision tune-ups a year, a free diagnostic call, priority scheduling, and reduced pricing on drain cleaning at $89 instead of $189. Membership is free for veterans, active military, police and firefighters under the Veteran Giveback Program. Call 941-269-3433 for current membership pricing.
Courtney sets memberships up over the phone and will tell you the current price. It is not printed on this page because it changes, and a figure on a web page that does not match the one you are quoted is worse than no figure at all.
Timed to the Florida cadence rather than to a national calendar.
A diagnostic call is $125 for a non-member and free for a member, so the first fault of the year has already returned a meaningful part of the membership.
Rather than $189.
In the weeks when everyone in Pinellas County calls at once.
Which matters in a market with as much turnover as this one.
When you eventually replace, alongside the existing rule that 100% of repair spending in a twelve-month period credits toward a new system.
Membership pricing is confirmed when you call, and the benefits above are the ones we will put in writing. Anything a member is told is guaranteed appears on the membership agreement with its limits stated in the same paragraph as the promise, which is where consumer law requires them to be and where an honest company would put them anyway. A maintenance visit is covered by the same seven written TLS guarantees as an installation, including the one about leaving your home cleaner than we found it.
No. An air conditioner that is too large for the house short-cycles — it starts, satisfies the thermostat quickly and stops before it has removed enough humidity — and no amount of maintenance corrects it. Oversizing is a sizing fault, fixed only by replacing the system with one calculated correctly for the house.
When our readings say a system is oversized we write it on the report and we do not sell you a maintenance plan for it. Thomas Hoerig, who co-founded TLS with his brother eleven years ago, makes the call on these: a correctly sized replacement now, or another season of managing it, with the measured numbers in front of you either way.
Short cycling is the failure homeowners most often bring to a maintenance visit expecting a cleaning to solve. It will not. The house feels cold and clammy at the same time, the compressor wears out early because starting is the hardest thing it does, and the electricity bill stays high. Every one of those symptoms traces back to a system chosen by rule of thumb rather than by load calculation.
Maintenance also cannot undo a duct system that was never large enough, restore a compressor already damaged by years of running hot, or make a fifteen-year-old R-410A system as efficient as it was new. It can slow all three down and it can tell you exactly where you stand, which is what the measured readings are for.
TLS maintains every major residential air conditioning brand — Trane, American Standard, Carrier, Bryant, Lennox, Rheem, Ruud, Goodman, Amana and York on ducted systems, and Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, Fujitsu and LG on ductless — and is a dealer for none of them. A tune-up here is a tune-up, not a sales call.
Being nobody’s dealer matters more on a maintenance visit than anywhere else, because the maintenance visit is where the replacement conversation usually starts. A contractor carrying a brand’s dealer agreement has a target and a margin attached to the system in your attic. We have neither, so when the readings say your fifteen-year-old system has years left, that is what the report says.
Your equipment’s make, model and serial number go on the report at point 31, which is what makes the next visit a comparison rather than a fresh start. Filters, capacitors and contactors differ by brand and by age, and the ones we stock cover the list above. Not seeing your make? We still maintain it. Ductless mini split systems are covered on their own page, including what maintenance on a wall cassette actually involves.
Ten Florida counties: Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier and DeSoto, covering 151 communities. Every maintenance visit is dispatched from one building in Pinellas Park, so the technician arriving in Naples carries the same tune-up checklist and the same $189 price as the one arriving in Tarpon Springs.
One building at 6210 44th St N runs every van. The technician who reaches Cape Coral is a TLS employee on the same payroll as the one who reaches Tarpon Springs, carrying the same manometer, the same 31-point checklist and the same $189 price.
Tell us at booking if the property is a seasonal home. A house closed up from May to November grows biological film in a drain pan nobody is watching, so those visits are timed to the shoulder months and weighted toward condensate and indoor humidity rather than cooling output.
These are the questions homeowners in Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida ask most often before booking maintenance — what the different names mean, how long it takes, what a new system needs, and what you can safely do yourself.
Call 941-269-3433 and ask for the 31-point tune-up. In office hours that reaches Courtney, who books maintenance visits directly onto the schedule. The office is staffed Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.
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The 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning is $189. Ask about the Comfort Club when you book if you want two a year and a diagnostic call that costs nothing.
TLS Air Conditioning · Licence CAC1822364 · 6210 44th St N, Pinellas Park, FL 33781