This is a working demo of a new site for Two Seasons. Look around, then read what went into it. Same as a bid: nothing is committed until you say so. A proposed site for Two Seasons. See the proposal

A maintenance plan that does not exist yet.

We do not sell one today. Not a tier, not a club, not a sticker on the furnace door. Every page on this site is either something the business already does or something we are proposing, and this whole page is the second kind.

What a tune-up actually is

Before anyone sells you a plan, it is worth knowing what the visit inside the plan consists of, because the word covers everything from an hour of real work to a man hosing off your condenser and leaving a magnet on the fridge.

A real one is mostly measurement. Microfarads on the run capacitor, compared against what is stamped on the can, because a capacitor that has drifted ten percent low still starts the compressor in April and will not start it in August. Amp draw on the compressor and the condenser fan. The contactor, checked for pitting on the points, which is the cheapest part on the system and one of the most common reasons a house is 88 degrees on a Saturday. Static pressure across the air handler, which is the only honest way to find out whether the duct can move what the equipment is producing. Superheat and subcooling, which is how you find a charge problem before the coil freezes into a block of ice and the compressor starts drinking liquid.

Then the boring half. The condensate drain, blown out and flushed, because in this county the pan grows a biological slime that will fill the pan and trip the float switch on the hottest afternoon of the year. The blower wheel, which collects a felt of dust on every vane and quietly costs you a third of your airflow. The coil, washed. The filter, actually changed, and the size written down somewhere so you can buy the right one.

March is the cheapest month you will ever spend on your air conditioner, and October is the second cheapest. Everything in the paragraphs above is easier, faster and less urgent when it is 70 degrees outside and nobody is waiting in a hot house.

The plan we would build

Three tiers, because two is not a choice and four is a menu. What follows is a structure, not an offer.

Proposed. Two Seasons does not currently offer a maintenance plan. The names, the contents and the prices are Tony's to set. The numbers below are what comparable two-person shops in Williamson County charge for the same work, so they are a real starting point rather than a guess. Move any of them and the page follows.

One Visit

$129 a year

  • One tune-up a year, booked in spring
  • The full measurement pass described above
  • Drain line flushed, filter changed
  • A written record of the readings, so next year has something to compare to

For a system under about eight years old that is behaving.

Two Seasons

$219 a year, or $19 a month

  • Everything in One Visit
  • A second visit in the fall, on the heating side
  • Heat exchanger and flue looked at before the first cold night
  • You get called to book it instead of remembering to
  • Priority in the schedule during a heat wave, honestly described

The obvious one, and the one the company is named after.

Two Seasons, Two Systems

$359 a year

  • Everything in Two Seasons, on both systems
  • Balancing between the upstairs and downstairs units
  • One visit, both units, one trip charge

For the two-story houses in Cedar Park and Round Rock where the upstairs has never once agreed with the thermostat.

What we would not put in it

  • A discount percentage on repairs. It sounds generous and it quietly gives the shop a reason to price repairs higher for everyone else.
  • A promise of around-the-clock availability. Two people cannot staff a night shift and a plan that implies otherwise is the fastest way to turn a good customer into a bad conversation at nine at night.
  • Automatic renewal that is hard to cancel. If the visits are worth it, the customer will keep them.

Whether you need one at all

Here is the part a maintenance page is not supposed to say. If your system is four years old, the filter gets changed, and nothing about it has ever surprised you, a plan is not going to change your life. Book a tune-up when you think of it and put the money somewhere else.

Where a plan earns its keep is at ten years and up, on a system that runs eight months a year in an attic that hits 140 degrees by two in the afternoon. That machine is going to fail eventually. The only question is whether it fails in March, on a scheduled visit, with a part on the truck, or in August at four in the afternoon with your house at 89 and a queue of people ahead of you.

If you are trying to work out whether the system you have is worth maintaining at all, the repair or replace tool is the faster question to answer first, and the long version is on the blog.

Your house is not going to fix itself, and it is not getting any cooler out there.

$75 to come out. A licensed tech, a real look at the whole system, and a straight answer about what is actually wrong with it.

Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 5:00pm. Saturday and Sunday by appointment.

Call (512) 591-5915 Book