AC Installation & Replacement in Chicago, IL
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Adding or replacing central cooling in Chicago runs into the same wall as everything else here: a great many houses have radiators and no ductwork, so "AC installation" is really two different projects depending on the building. Where ducts exist from an earlier conversion, replacing the cooling side alone is straightforward. Where they do not, the honest comparison is a duct retrofit against a ductless system, and the duct retrofit usually costs a closet and a soffit as well as money.
Where cooling is being replaced on an existing forced-air system, the local variable is the condenser. Lot lines are tight, and the unit often ends up in a gangway or on a flat roof — placements that affect service access, noise for a neighbour whose window is a few feet away, and how much line set the job needs.
One thing worth confirming before signing: whether the new outdoor unit's refrigerant matches the indoor coil it is being paired with. Mixing a new condenser with an older coil is common in retrofit work and it costs efficiency the equipment is rated for.
About AC installation generally
Cooling gets replaced on its own more often than people expect. A condenser fails while the furnace still has years left, or a house with radiators and window units finally gets central air. That is a different project from a whole-system replacement, and it has its own traps.
HVACandRoof is a matching marketplace, not usually the installer — and where HVAC and Roof Corp performs the work itself, we say so rather than presenting our own crew as an independent match. We put your project in front of a small number of screened installers. Each one measures your home, checks what the existing equipment and ductwork can support, and quotes their own work.
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