Heat Pump Repair

Heat pumps announce trouble in a specific way. The unit ices over and never clears, the auxiliary strips stay engaged and the electric bill jumps, the system blows cold air in heating mode, or it heats when it should cool. Those symptoms point at defrost controls, sensors, and the reversing valve rather than at a general breakdown, and that is where the $95 diagnostic goes first. The fee is waived if you approve the repair on the same visit. Because a heat pump works both seasons, it accumulates run hours no single-purpose system ever does, and Oklahoma asks it to do both in the same year. Capacitors that spent the summer running past their heat rating are frequent winter failures at $150 to $400. Contactors pitted or bridged by fire ants run $150 to $350. Refrigerant charge matters more here than on a cooling-only system, since a low charge shows up as weak heat before anyone notices weak cooling; leak repair ranges $250 to $1,500. Compressor and coil failures are quoted individually, from $1,000 to $2,800 for an evaporator coil to $1,500 to $3,500 and up for a compressor. When the number approaches replacement territory, the estimate for a new system is free and comes without pressure.