Commercial Repairs & Maintenance Agreements
For a business across northern Palm Beach County, losing cooling on a busy afternoon costs customers and staff time. A/C Now is a licensed, family-owned contractor that uses no subcontractors. Every repair is quoted at a flat rate before any work begins, and maintenance agreements are available to keep your equipment on a regular service schedule.
- Flat-Rate Repairs and Preventive Maintenance
- Multi-Zone Coastal Air Handler Upgrades
- Licensed Commercial Rooftop Package Installs
Rooftop Package & Split System Cooling
Commercial rooftop units and split systems need correct load matching, protection for coils exposed to salt air, and regular preventive maintenance to keep a business running through the summer without an unplanned shutdown.
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Multi-Zone Ductless for North Palm Beach Businesses
A good deal of North Palm Beach's professional and neighborhood retail stock dates from a time when far less cooling was expected of a building, and what limits it now is structural and electrical, not financial. Often there is no spare capacity in the panel for another package unit, and the roof was not framed to carry one.
Ductless is frequently the only route by which capacity can be added at all. An inverter mini-split draws considerably less than a comparable packaged system, mounts at grade or on a wall bracket and not on the structure, and cools the one suite that needs it without re-rating anything for the whole building. We confirm available service at the panel before specifying, because that number decides the equipment.
HVAC Equipment & Environmental Factors in North Palm Beach, FL
North Palm Beach's commercial buildings line US-1 and Northlake Boulevard, with a smaller group near the marina and the village center. Plenty of them have stood for decades, and an aging system that needs a repair every season deserves a hard look: set a flat-rate quote for the repair beside an estimate for replacement, and decide on the numbers rather than on habit. Marina-side properties face the same salt air as waterfront homes, but with nobody living on site to notice when a unit starts to struggle.
North Palm Beach is an incorporated village with its own building department, so commercial HVAC permits there go through the village rather than Palm Beach County. Before choosing where a new condenser will sit, check whether the village has rules on the placement and screening of outdoor equipment, and settle those questions before anything is ordered so a summer project does not stall. On a system replacement, A/C Now pulls the permit and hauls away the old equipment, so the owner is not left to handle that paperwork alone.
🌊 Climate Reality Check: Coastal Salt-Air Defense
Salt carried in on the sea breeze settles on outdoor coils, fasteners and cabinets and slowly corrodes them. Rinsing the outdoor coil with fresh water helps, and coated coils and stainless hardware are worth asking about when a unit is replaced.
Frequently Asked Commercial HVAC Questions
Common questions about package units, rooftop service and budgeting.
A split system in a Northlake Boulevard office was put in by a previous tenant's contractor without a permit. Can it be brought up to code without tearing it out?
It may be. An after-the-fact permit lets the building department inspect the existing work instead of requiring it to be removed and reinstalled. In North Palm Beach that permit goes through the village's own building department, which sets the requirements. The usual path is to document what was installed, correct any code deficiencies, and then pass inspection. Removal generally comes into it only when the installation is unsafe or cannot be corrected.
A condenser behind a North Palm Beach marina-area retail unit is squeezed between the building and a neighboring fence with about 18 inches of clearance, and the system has run hot all summer. Could the clearance be the problem?
Very possibly. Each manufacturer publishes minimum clearances for its condensers, both where air is drawn in and where it is discharged, and many call for more than 18 inches on at least one side. Boxed into a narrow gap, a condenser can recirculate its own hot discharge air, which raises the temperature of the air entering the coil and drives head pressure up. Check the installation manual for that model; depending on what it requires, a discharge deflector, a more open fence panel or moving the unit may solve it.
What happens if an office on US-1 loses its air conditioning after hours?
Call (772) 521-3568. Phones are answered from 8 AM to 7 PM every day, and scheduled service runs Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM, with same-day service when available for calls received before 5 PM. After 5 PM on weekdays and on weekends, A/C Now provides emergency service only, through an on-call technician at a higher trip charge. For a North Palm Beach suite with a server closet or other equipment that cannot go without cooling, plan a backup source of cooling before summer rather than after a failure, and keep the unit's model and serial number handy for the call.