Serving Tampa Bay Since 1988
(813) 684-9919
Tampa loses heat maybe a dozen nights a year, which is exactly why so many systems fail the moment it happens. Sun Air Services has repaired heating equipment across Tampa since 1988 — gas furnaces, heat pumps, and electric air handlers alike.
Tampa is unusual in this market because it genuinely has both. The older core neighborhoods — Seminole Heights, Hyde Park, parts of Ybor — sit on natural gas mains and contain real gas furnaces, some of them decades old. Drive out to New Tampa or Westchase and virtually everything is a heat pump. Those two systems fail in completely different ways, and a technician who assumes one when you own the other will spend an hour chasing the wrong fault. We ask what you have before we quote, and our Causeway Blvd shop puts most Tampa addresses inside a short drive when the temperature actually drops.
Tampa is one of the few areas here with real gas furnaces in the older neighborhoods and heat pumps everywhere else. We diagnose either without guessing first.
Our Causeway Blvd location puts most Tampa addresses close by, which matters on the handful of nights when every HVAC company in the city is booked.
Near the bay we check the heating-side components for salt damage first, because that is what usually failed.
Homeowners near the bay understand that salt air destroys air conditioning equipment. What gets missed is that on a heat pump, the outdoor unit sitting in that salt air is also your heater. The reversing valve that flips the system into heating mode, and the defrost board that manages frost on the coil, are both out there corroding for nine months while nobody uses them. That is why so many South Tampa and Westshore heat pumps cool perfectly all summer and then fail on the first cold night in December. If your system is under ten years old and the heat has already quit once, corrosion on the heating-side components is the first thing we check.
Open the closet or garage cabinet and look. A gas furnace has a sheet-metal flue pipe running up and out of the roof, and you will usually find a small window with a burner visible behind it. If there is no flue and no gas line, you have an air handler — either paired with a heat pump outside, or heating purely with electric resistance elements. In Tampa the fastest tell is your gas bill: if TECO Peoples Gas is not billing you, you almost certainly do not own a gas furnace regardless of what the thermostat says.
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(813) 684-9919 Schedule OnlineThis step gets skipped constantly and it matters. Most homes here do not own a furnace — they own a heat pump or an air handler with electric resistance heat. We confirm the equipment before diagnosing it, because the failure modes have almost nothing in common.
We establish first whether you are on gas or a heat pump, because Tampa genuinely has both. Gas means checking the ignition sequence; a heat pump means checking the reversing valve and defrost board for salt corrosion.
You get a firm written price before any repair begins. If the honest answer is that the equipment is not worth the repair, we will tell you that instead of selling you the part.
We verify temperature rise and airflow, and near the bay we assess how far corrosion has progressed on the rest of the outdoor unit — that determines whether the repair is a good investment or a stopgap.
The single most common Tampa heating call. The system sat unused since March, and a stuck reversing valve or a seized blower shows up the first night you ask it to work.
Usually dust burning off elements that have not run in months, and it should clear within about fifteen minutes. If it persists or smells sharp and electrical, shut the system off and call us.
On a heat pump this means the system has given up on the outdoor unit and is heating entirely on backup strip heat. It will keep the house warm and it will wreck your TECO bill.
In the older gas-served neighborhoods this is nearly always a dirty flame sensor or a failing igniter. It is an inexpensive repair, and it is not something to ignore.
It depends entirely on what you own. Flame sensors and igniters on a gas furnace are among the least expensive repairs we do. Heat pump reversing valves and control boards run considerably higher, and strip heat elements sit in between. We diagnose first and give you a firm written price before starting. Call (813) 684-9919 for a free phone estimate.
Our shop is on Causeway Blvd, so most Tampa addresses are a short drive — we frequently reach Tampa calls faster than anywhere else we serve. Call before noon and we aim to have a technician out the same day, seven days a week.
Yes. Sun Air Services is licensed under Florida HVAC contractor certification #CAC1820634, and our technicians are NATE-certified. We carry full liability and workers' compensation insurance on every job.
We service every major heating brand — Lennox, Carrier, Trane, Rheem, Goodman, American Standard, and the gas furnaces still running in Tampa's older gas-served neighborhoods. We are a Lennox Authorized Dealer, but we repair whatever you already own.
"Sun Air has been our HVAC company since we bought our house in South Tampa in 2009. Every technician has been professional, knowledgeable, and honest. They've repaired our old system three times and finally helped us replace it last year. Couldn't recommend them more highly."
Same-day service available throughout the greater Tampa Bay area.
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