United States
Heating and AC Repair in Alaska
In Alaska heating and cooling work gets arranged by phone and settled street by street. Two things decide how that call goes, and neither of them appears on a register.
(888) 217-3739Alaska contractors. No obligation for the call.
The first is the house itself. A place built before central cooling existed, one built in the ducted years, and one built tight enough to need less than the equipment in it are three different conversations, and all three can stand on one street.
The second is the length of the heating season here. Where it runs half the year, heating is the main system and cooling the second; where winter is a few weeks, the equipment that fails is the half that sat unused since spring.
Whoever comes out, one thing is worth doing before the work starts: ask for the license number and the name it is held under, and check it. Some states license this trade, some leave it to the city, and some do not license it at all — a trading name and the licensed entity are frequently not the same.
That is what the pages below are for: a county, then a town, then the job you actually have.
- The license
- Held by the contractor, not by this site, and issued where the work happens — Alaska licenses at state level, at city level or not at all depending on the trade and the town. Ask for the number and the name it is held under: a trading name and the licensed entity are often not the same.
- The figure
- Set by the contractor and said before the work starts. This site never quotes and has no part in it. If a technician cannot say what the visit covers before beginning, that is the moment to stop.
- The call
- Describing what the system is doing commits you to nothing. Nothing is booked until you say so.
- Coverage
- By town, not by region. Alaska and the towns around it, and it shifts with who is taking calls at the hour you ring.
The largest towns in Alaska
- Fairbanks
- Badger
- Knik-Fairview
- College
- North Lakes
- Tanaina
- Wasilla
- Meadow Lakes
- Ketchikan
- Kalifornsky
- Kenai
- Sterling
- Gateway
- Bethel
- Palmer
- South Lakes
- Chena Ridge
- Steele Creek
- Homer
- Kodiak
- Fishhook
- Farmers Loop
- Utqiaġvik
- Nikiski
- Soldotna
- Unalaska
- Valdez
- Butte
- Nome
- Mill Bay
- Petersburg
- Big Lake
- Goldstream
- Eielson AFB
- Kotzebue
- Farm Loop
- Ester
- Seward
- North Pole
- Fritz Creek
Counties in Alaska
- Aleutians East Borough
- Aleutians West Census Area
- Anchorage Municipality
- Bethel Census Area
- Bristol Bay Borough
- Chugach Census Area
- Copper River Census Area
- Denali Borough
- Dillingham Census Area
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Haines Borough
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
- Juneau City and Borough
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Kusilvak Census Area
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Nome Census Area
- North Slope Borough
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Petersburg Borough
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area
- Sitka City and Borough
- Skagway Municipality
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
- Wrangell City and Borough
- Yakutat City and Borough
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area