
AC and heating repair in New Orleans, answered any hour
Warm air from the vents, water under the air handler, or a heat pump that will not switch over: we take the call, come out, and fix the system you have. Cooling, heating, ductless and humidity control across New Orleans, the Westbank and the Northshore.
Answered 24/7Mid-City service officeSlidell head officeEvery major brand
We repair and replace air conditioners, heat pumps, furnaces and ductless systems across New Orleans and answer the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most calls to Central Heating & AC Repair are for cooling that has quit in summer heat, and the fix usually comes down to a failed capacitor, a clogged condensate drain, low refrigerant or a frozen coil, all of which we diagnose on the first visit.
Everything we fix and install in New Orleans
Seven categories cover the whole trade: cooling repair, installation, heating, ductless and ductwork, air quality and humidity, maintenance and commercial, and commercial refrigeration. These are the calls that keep the trucks busy.
Cooling Repair 10 services
Ductless & Ductwork 11 services
Maintenance & Commercial 12 services
- AC Tune-Up
- HVAC Maintenance Plan
- Soft Start Kit Installation
- Commercial HVAC Repair
- Commercial HVAC Installation
- Rooftop Package Unit Service
- Commercial HVAC Maintenance
- Make-Up Air & Kitchen Ventilation
- Pre-Purchase HVAC Inspection
- PTAC Unit Repair & Replacement
- HVAC Surge Protector Installation
- Commercial Chiller Service
Installation 7 services
Heating 6 services
Air Quality & Humidity 8 services
Heat, humidity and old houses: what breaks in New Orleans and why
Two things wear out cooling equipment here faster than almost anywhere else in the country: humidity and salt air. New Orleans averages about 60 inches of rain a year in a climate that stays warm and damp for most of it, so a condensate drain that would take years to clog up north can slime shut in one summer. The moist air off the Gulf also corrodes outdoor coils, contactors and fan motors well ahead of their rated life.
The housing stock adds its own problems. Older homes on piers were built to breathe, not to hold conditioned air, so a system that is sized by square footage alone runs long, dehumidifies poorly and still leaves the back bedrooms warm. Post-1960 slab homes run their ducts through a hot attic, where a leaky joint dumps cold air into the rafters.
We size and repair for those conditions. That means checking the drain and the coil on every service call, measuring airflow instead of guessing at it, and being honest when a 15 year old unit has reached the point where another repair is money badly spent.

Cooling season is long. Heating season still shows up.
Most of the year the job is keeping a house cool and dry. Then a cold front rolls through and the furnace that has not run since March will not light.
April through October
Emergency repairs, refrigerant leaks, frozen coils, drain backups and the replacements that follow a compressor failure. A spring tune-up catches most of it early.
Book a spring tune-upNovember through February
Furnaces that will not ignite, heat pumps stuck in cooling, heat strips that trip the breaker. Short season, cold mornings, and a house with no heat at 6 a.m. still counts as an emergency.
Heating repairWhat happens after you call us
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You call, a person answers
Any hour, any day. We take the address, the symptom and the system type, and tell you what to switch off in the meantime.
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A technician is dispatched
Calls with no cooling in a heat wave, water damage risk or no heat on a cold night go to the front of the line.
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Diagnosis before any work
We test the system, find the actual fault and explain the repair and the price before touching a part.
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The repair, usually the same visit
Capacitors, contactors, drain repairs, fan motors and most refrigerant work are done from the truck.
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A straight answer on repair vs replace
If a repair only buys a summer on a tired system, we say so and quote the replacement without pressure.
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Cleanup and a check on the whole system
Drain flushed, filter checked, temperatures verified at the vents before we leave.
One visit or a plan: pick the one that fits the house
Systems here run seven or eight months a year. Maintenance is not a luxury upsell in this climate; it is what keeps a 10 year old unit from becoming a July emergency.
Single tune-up
One visit, cooling or heating: refrigerant charge, coil condition, drain flush, capacitor and contactor test, electrical connections, airflow and thermostat check. Best before the first hot week or the first cold one.
AC tune-up detailsTwice-yearly maintenance plan
A spring cooling visit and a fall heating visit on a schedule we track for you, with priority dispatch when something breaks in between. Suits rental properties and anyone who does not want to think about the system.
What the plan coversBrands we service and install
We repair and install Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, Ruud and the other major lines, plus Mitsubishi Electric ductless.
What a New Orleans homeowner gets when we take the call
Diagnosed, not guessed
Every no-cool call gets pressures, temperatures and amperage checked before a part is named. A capacitor that failed because of a weak compressor is not a capacitor problem.
Built for humid houses
Drain lines, coil cleanliness and airflow get checked on every visit, because those are what fail in this climate.
Honest on replacement
We will repair a unit that is worth repairing. When it is not, you get a written option to replace it and the reason why.


New Orleans first, the whole metro and the Northshore too
Our service office sits on Banks St in Mid-City, so most of Orleans Parish is a short drive. The head office is in Slidell, which puts a second base on the Northshore side of Lake Pontchartrain. Between the two we cover Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist and St. Tammany parishes, plus Hammond and Ponchatoula.
New Orleans service office
2530 Banks St, New Orleans, LA 70119
Head office
42816 Rewa Ln, Slidell, LA 70460
Hours
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week. After-hours calls reach a person, not a recording.
Each parish has its own page with the housing, the weather and the calls we run most there: Jefferson Parish, St. Tammany Parish, St. Bernard Parish, Plaquemines Parish, St. Charles Parish, St. John the Baptist Parish, Tangipahoa Parish. Inside the city, neighborhood pages cover Lake Vista & Lakeshore, Seventh Ward, St. Roch, Broadmoor, Bayou St. John, Lower Ninth Ward, Marigny, Irish Channel, Fontainebleau.
Read this before you call anyone
Short guides from our service calls, written by Gail Barlow. See all guides.
What AC repair costs in New Orleans
Published local ranges for common repairs, and what pushes a bill up or down.
Guide: What AC repair costs in New OrleansWhy the house feels damp with the AC on
Why a house can read 72 degrees and still feel sticky, and the fixes that work.
Guide: Why the house feels damp with the AC onHurricane season HVAC prep
What to do before a storm, during an outage and before you restart the system.
Guide: Hurricane season HVAC prepQuestions New Orleans homeowners ask us
Yes. The phone is answered around the clock every day of the year. If every technician is already out on a bad night, the call may be forwarded to another trusted local provider so you are not left waiting, which we say plainly in the footer of every page.
Sometimes. An oversized system, a dirty coil, a fan set to run continuously or a low charge can all leave the air cool but damp. If the system itself is fine, a ducted dehumidifier is the fix, and we can tell you which one it is on the first visit.
For most homes in southern Louisiana, yes. Winters are mild enough that a heat pump rarely needs backup heat, and it cools exactly like a standard AC. If you have a working gas furnace you can also pair the two.
Not before it is inspected. A condenser that sat in water can short or seize when powered, and a replacement at ground level may need to be raised. We inspect first, document the damage for your insurer, and then repair or replace.
The visit and diagnosis are quoted when you call, and the repair price is explained before any work starts. Published market ranges for this area are on each service page for planning; they are not our quote.
Yes, installation and repair, single-zone and multi-zone. In the historic districts we plan condenser and line-set placement around the review rules so the permit is not the thing that holds the job up.
Yes. Restaurants, offices, retail and light industrial, including rooftop package units, split systems and quarterly maintenance.
Once the equipment is confirmed, a standard changeout on existing ductwork is usually one working day. A new duct system or a first-time central installation takes longer and we schedule it as a project.
All of the major residential and light commercial lines, including Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, Ruud, Daikin and Mitsubishi Electric ductless. We install several of them and repair every one we can get parts for.
Cooling or heating trouble in New Orleans? Call now.
A person answers 24/7. Tell us the symptom and we will tell you what to switch off and when a truck can be there.
Browse every serviceOne number for both offices
- Phone
- (504) 520-4214
- Hours
- Open 24 hours, 7 days
- Service office
- 2530 Banks St, New Orleans, LA 70119
- Head office
- 42816 Rewa Ln, Slidell, LA 70460
Map of our New Orleans service office