Cooling problems do not wait for a convenient morning, and neither should the company you call. TLS Air Conditioning handles residential AC repair, installation, replacement, maintenance, ductless mini splits and ductwork throughout Pinellas Park. Same-day service is usually available and the emergency line is answered around the clock.
Twenty-five people, more than 500 installations, and seven written guarantees behind every job. The technician diagnoses the fault properly, explains exactly what it will take, and does not leave until the system performs the way it was sized to.
Most uneven cooling in Pinellas Park comes from ductwork rather than equipment. The city sits inland between Tampa Bay and the Gulf beaches, so attic heat rather than salt air is the main stress on a system here, and decades-old flex duct in an attic running well above outdoor temperature loses air before it reaches the far bedrooms.
Ductwork fitted with the original system has usually sat in that attic for twenty or thirty years, and sustained heat degrades flex duct regardless of how well it went in — joints separate, the inner liner tears, and the run furthest from the air handler loses the most. A room addition or a converted garage adds a second problem: the duct system was never designed to reach it, so forcing more air at that room starves the ones that were already working.
We take a static pressure reading rather than a look in the attic, because the number decides whether a run needs sealing, a section repair or full replacement and a look decides nothing. That reading costs nothing on any TLS call in this city, and where it points is covered on duct replacement.
We do six residential air conditioning services in Pinellas Park: repair, installation, replacement, maintenance, ductless mini splits, and duct sealing, repair and replacement. TLS does not clean ducts and does not take commercial work. Homes only, ZIP codes 33781 and 33782, every job priced in writing before we start.
What separates one air conditioning company from another in this city is not whether it turns up. It is whether the technician measures before he recommends, whether capacity comes from a calculation rather than from the plate on the old unit, and whether the figure quoted is the figure paid. Those three tests are what the six services below are built around, and each one ends the same way: a written price, a date in the diary, and a technician who works for TLS rather than for a subcontractor.
AC repair is the diagnosis and correction of a fault in a system that still runs, as distinct from replacing it. We repair residential AC across Pinellas Park, mostly between June and September when the wet season finds the weak part. Same-day slots are usually open, and after hours the emergency line reaches a TLS employee.
A TLS technician meters the run capacitor against the microfarad rating printed on the can instead of judging it by whether the top has domed — that is how we catch the one sitting 15% under rating before it strands you on the hottest afternoon of the year, because that is the afternoon it works hardest. Where the charge is low, he treats it as a leak to locate rather than a level to top up, since a system that lost refrigerant once will lose it again.
He reads a frozen coil the same way: it means either lost airflow or lost charge, and thawing it without settling which one is how the same coil freezes again in September. The faults TLS replaces most often in this city are capacitors, contactors pitted by cycling or colonised by ants, condensate lines closed by biological growth, leaks at coils and Schrader cores, motors drawing above nameplate, and compressors. We go through every one of them on AC repair.
Most residential AC repairs in this market run $150 to $1,400, with the median near $400 — a capacitor $180 to $450, a compressor out of warranty $2,500 to $5,500. Our diagnostic is $125, free for Comfort Club members, and every dollar spent on repairs inside twelve months credits toward a new system if you decide to replace. These are ranges, not quotes — your exact price is confirmed in writing after diagnosis and does not move after that.
Ring the office before lunch and you are usually on the calendar the same day, with an arrival window rather than a whole day sitting in. The technician diagnoses first and prices second, and he opens nothing and fits nothing until you have agreed the written figure.
AC installation is the design and fitting of a system into a space that has never had one — new construction, a home addition, or one of Pinellas Park’s older block homes that grew up on window units. We size it from a room-by-room calculation, not from precedent, and you get that calculation with your quote.
A room-by-room Manual J load calculation turns what your house actually gains into a figure in BTU per hour: wall and roof area, glazing area and orientation, ceiling height, air infiltration and occupancy. We run one on every installation. Moisture removal accounts for 30% to 50% of the total cooling load in a Florida house against 20% to 30% in a dry climate, so TLS selects equipment against the sensible and latent split in the manufacturer’s performance data rather than a headline tonnage.
TLS then sizes the duct runs to the airflow that calculation says each room needs. The crew brazes the new line set under flowing nitrogen, pulls it into a deep vacuum before any refrigerant goes in, and sets the condensate line at the code slope of one-eighth of an inch per foot. We pull the mechanical permit and meet the county inspector, so you file nothing. The technician measures airflow, charge and temperature split at start-up before handing the system over, and the full design sequence sits on new AC installation.
A new system in this market runs $6,000 to $16,000 installed, and size drives most of it: about $6,000 to $9,500 for two tons, $10,000 to $16,000 for five. A first central system in a house with no ductwork at all runs $11,000 to $24,000, because a complete duct system is $3,000 to $9,000 of that. The mechanical permit, $150 to $500, sits inside the quoted figure rather than beside it. These are ranges, not quotes — your exact price is confirmed in writing after diagnosis and does not move after that.
The in-home estimate is free, and you finish it holding the completed load calculation, the equipment specification and one price rather than a tonnage guessed in the driveway. Book it online or ring the office, and Courtney will fit the visit around your week.
AC replacement is taking out an existing failing system and fitting a new one in its place. It is the commonest job in this city, where much of the housing stock is older than the standards the equipment now has to meet. We read the serial plate and the static pressure before recommending either.
The model and serial plate gives the equipment’s true age, and a static pressure reading tells us what your existing ductwork can actually carry — TLS takes both before specifying anything new. Tampa Bay runs about 3,928 cooling degree days a year against a US average of 1,633, so a ten-year-old condenser here has banked the run hours of a much older one somewhere mild. Inland, where salt corrosion is not what ends a coil, those hours are what the decision turns on.
TLS sets capacity by calculation rather than by copying the plate on the unit coming out: a system needs roughly 400 cubic feet per minute per ton, and ductwork that never carried that will not start now. On the day, the crew recovers the old refrigerant into certified cylinders under EPA Section 608 rather than venting it, holds the new system in a deep vacuum to prove it is tight, and charges it to the manufacturer’s weight. New equipment ships with R-454B, which cannot go into an R-410A system, and we tell you which one you have before you choose. The full arithmetic is on AC replacement.
A full replacement in this market runs $5,500 to $17,000 installed. The commonest job in Pinellas Park — a 2.5 to 3 ton system going back onto existing ductwork — runs $6,600 to $10,800 at standard efficiency, and high-efficiency variable-speed equipment adds roughly 40% to that. TLS gives you the figure free, in your home, and under the No Change Order Guarantee it is the figure you pay. These are ranges, not quotes — your exact price is confirmed in writing after diagnosis and does not move after that.
Ask for the free in-home estimate and you will have the written price, the load calculation and the equipment specification before the order goes in. The old system leaves with the crew on the day rather than sitting in your side yard afterwards.
AC maintenance is scheduled preventive work on a system that still runs, as distinct from repairing one that has failed. The 31-Point A/C Precision Tune-Up and Cleaning is $189 and takes about ninety minutes. We recommend two visits a year here, because the cooling season only thins out in January before it starts again.
Six of the thirty-one points carry a number and the technician writes down every one: the temperature split across your evaporator coil, typically sixteen to twenty-two degrees; total external static pressure with the return and supply halves recorded separately, so the reading tells us which side of the duct system is costing you air; compressor and fan motor amperage against nameplate; and the run capacitor’s microfarad value. You keep that report, with your equipment’s model and serial numbers on it.
TLS washes the condenser coil through, clears the condensate line and then watches it run, inspects both drain pans, physically lifts the float switch to confirm the system shuts down, checks the contactor for pitting and ant intrusion, and seats the cabinet gaskets so the return is not pulling attic air. Manufacturer warranties exclude failures caused by neglect, so the dated report from that visit is also what turns a parts claim into a paid one. We set out both visits on AC maintenance and tune-ups.
Book the $189 tune-up and you can put the second visit in the diary at the same time, so it does not slip to the week the system fails. Find something on the day and we price it before the technician starts, not on the invoice afterwards.
A ductless mini split is an air conditioning system that moves refrigerant rather than air between an outdoor unit and indoor heads, with no ductwork anywhere. TLS began as a mini split specialist, and we fit them in the Pinellas Park rooms a duct system was never designed to reach: converted garages, enclosed porches, workshops, bonus rooms.
Older homes here are the other recurring case, with low ceilings and shallow attics, so retrofitting a duct run costs you a ceiling or a closet. We calculate capacity once per zone rather than once per house, from the room’s glass area and orientation, its ceiling height and its exposure, because a head chosen off floor area alone is the commonest fault found on somebody else’s ductless work. The inverter compressor modulates between roughly 20% and 100% of capacity, which lets it settle into the long slow run that dries the air rather than only cooling it.
The installation is one three-inch penetration through your exterior wall, carrying two insulated copper lines, the control wiring and the condensate. Every copper joint is a flare our installer makes by hand and torques to specification, because flares are where ductless systems leak, and the lines go below 500 microns of vacuum before refrigerant enters, since moisture left inside turns refrigerant oil into acid. On the repair side TLS handles fouled blower wheels, blocked condensate tubes, flare leaks, failed thermistors and brand-specific inverter boards, on Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, Fujitsu and LG. Both halves of the service are on ductless mini split system.
Tell us which room is not working and TLS sizes the head to that room rather than to a catalogue. You agree the head position, the line-set route and the price in writing before anything is drilled, and most single-room jobs finish inside a day.
Duct replacement is rebuilding a home’s supply and return ductwork, as distinct from sealing the ducts already there. TLS seals, repairs, replaces and installs residential duct in Pinellas Park, and does not clean ducts. The symptom that brings most homeowners to us is one bedroom that stays warm while the rest of the house cools.
We put a manometer on two ports either side of your air handler and the number comes off that. Residential equipment is generally designed around a total external static pressure of half an inch of water column, about half of which belongs to the ducts. Below 0.5 inches your duct system is inside its budget; 0.5 to 0.7 means one restriction to find; 0.7 to 0.9 means the ducts rather than the equipment are limiting airflow; above 0.9 the blower cannot deliver what the system was designed to move. The technician shows you the reading rather than describing it.
Replacement is a design job rather than a swap, so TLS builds it in galvanised sheet metal trunk and plenums with R-8 insulated flexible branches — R-8 being the Florida code minimum for attic duct — every connection mechanically fastened with a screw or a band and then brushed with mastic rather than taped. TLS fixes the return path at the same time, because a closed bedroom door in a house with one hallway return is what leaves that room three to six degrees above the rest. We settle seal, repair or replace on duct replacement and sealing.
TLS will tell you plainly when sealing is enough and a full re-duct is not, even though the re-duct is the bigger job. Ask for the static pressure reading on your next service call — it costs nothing, it takes minutes, and it is the number the whole decision turns on.
Nine signs point to an AC problem in a Florida home: hot or uneven rooms, run cycles that never reach the setpoint, damp indoor air, climbing electric bills, weak airflow, dusty vents, water near the air handler, short cycling, and an addition or garage that never cools. Each is checkable before a technician arrives.
Any two of these together usually mean the fault is systemic rather than local. We measure to find out which one you have, and you get the price for the fix before the work starts.
Check four things before hiring an AC company in Pinellas Park: that the licence is a Florida State Certified CAC number you can verify at myfloridalicense.com, that the technicians are employees rather than subcontractors, that the price is written down before work starts, and that the guarantees are written rather than spoken.
We are Florida State Certified, licence CAC1822364, checkable at myfloridalicense.com in under a minute. Under § 489.128 a contract signed by an unlicensed contractor is unenforceable by that contractor, which is what the minute buys you.
Every technician TLS sends is a TLS employee — background checked, live scanned and drug tested before he is issued a van, and 150 hours of training a year after that. No subcontractors, on any job, including installation days.
We measure static pressure on every service call, including a fifteen-minute one. It is the reading that separates a diagnosis from an opinion, and no competitor page in this market commits to it.
We put seven guarantees in writing, including No Change Order, which fixes the agreed price for good, and Totally Happy, which gives you a full year to live with an installed system before deciding. Terms and limitations are stated in full on that page.
TLS Air Conditioning is a family-run residential AC contractor working across the whole of Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida — ten counties and 151 communities. Founded in 2015 by brothers Thomas and Seth Hoerig, we run the entire operation from one building at 6210 44th St N in Pinellas Park.
Seth Hoerig owns the company and Thomas Hoerig is co-founder and its AC expert. Courtney runs the office, Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, and puts a technician on the calendar during the call rather than promising to ring back.
One building rather than a chain of branches is deliberate: the same 25 people, the same seven guarantees and the same pricing apply whether the job is in Pinellas Park, Sarasota or Cape Coral. Being based in this city simply makes a Pinellas Park address the shortest run our vans make — not the only one. Over 500 residential installations and more than 1,500 homeowners later, the work is still residential only, so every technician who reaches a house has been trained around houses rather than warehouses. Veterans, active military, police and firefighters get free Comfort Club membership through the Veteran Giveback Program.
About TLS Air ConditioningTwo Florida statutes changed what a licensed installation is worth. Under § 559.957, a manufacturer warranty on a system installed by a Chapter 489 licensed contractor runs from the installation date, not from a registration deadline. Under § 559.956, that warranty transfers free to a buyer if the home sells.
§ 559.957 took effect on 1 July 2024, and it means the manufacturer warranty on a TLS-installed system cannot be conditioned on registering the product within 60 days. Most national guidance still says otherwise. In Florida it is no longer true.
Under § 559.956, the remaining warranty transfers to the buyer when a Pinellas Park home sells, and the warrantor may not charge a transfer fee for it.
We set capacity from a Manual J load calculation against this city’s inland heat load, rather than putting three tons back in because three tons came out. Getting that wrong is what produces a house that is cool at the thermostat and clammy everywhere else.
The No Lemon Guarantee replaces the whole system if two components fail inside five years, and the Temperature Selection Guarantee covers every room cooling evenly on TLS-installed ductwork. Both are written down, with their limitations, on the guarantees page.
Comfort Club membership covers two tune-ups a year, waives the $125 diagnostic fee on every service call, and drops drain cleaning from $189 to $89. Veterans, active military, police and firefighters qualify for free membership through the Veteran Giveback Program. The membership price is confirmed at booking rather than published here.
TLS schedules the two visits for spring and late summer, either side of the heaviest cooling stretch. The spring visit is the one that catches a weak capacitor before it fails in the week it is asked to work hardest; the late-summer visit covers the second demand peak before it starts. Members also move ahead of the queue when call volume spikes, which in July is the difference between a same-day slot and a Thursday one. Ask for membership when you book any service and TLS adds it to that visit.
An AC service visit runs in five steps: you book, a technician evaluates the system on site, you get a repair-or-replace recommendation with the price in writing, we carry out the work, and we re-test the result before leaving. The same five steps apply to repairs, installations, replacements and tune-ups.
We cover every neighbourhood in Pinellas Park, ZIP codes 33781 and 33782, from the historic commercial core to Golden Gate, Mainlands of Tamarac, Ciega Village, Bayou Club and Cross Bayou. St. Petersburg, Largo, Seminole and Clearwater are covered from the same office, because we only have one.
We work right across Pinellas County and the wider Tampa Bay region from this one office — ten counties and 151 communities in all. Dedicated city pages for St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Largo are being built next.
These are the questions Pinellas Park homeowners search most before they book. The full working on each job sits on its own service page.
Call 941-269-3433 for same-day AC repair, or to book an installation, replacement or tune-up. In office hours that reaches the Pinellas Park office directly and a technician can be scheduled while you are on the line. Outside them, the same number reaches a TLS employee on the emergency line.
Not urgent? Ask for a free estimate or schedule service online. A question first, rather than a booking? Contact us.
TLS Air Conditioning · Licence CAC1822364 · 6210 44th St N, Pinellas Park, FL 33781 · 941-269-3433