Canal-front ranch houses, Intracoastal high-rises and attic ductwork older than most of the owners: Fort Lauderdale asks a lot of an air conditioner. KAF fixes what breaks here and tells you plainly when a part is worth saving.
AC repair in Fort Lauderdale usually means one of two buildings. The first is a single-story concrete-block home from the 1950s or 60s in Victoria Park, Rio Vista, Croissant Park or Coral Ridge, often on a canal lot, with the air handler in a closet or garage and the ducts snaking through a low attic. The second is a condo tower along Las Olas or the Intracoastal, where the equipment sits in a utility closet and the condenser shares a roof or balcony with dozens of others.
Living this close to the ocean, the outdoor unit never really dries off. Salt mist settles on the coil fins and copper joints of homes along the canals, and over a few summers the fins flake away and tiny pinhole leaks let refrigerant escape. Inside, those older attics can climb well past the outdoor temperature on a July afternoon, so any duct joint that has worked loose is pushing cold air into the hottest space in the house.
The repair calls that come up most in this part of Broward follow from that: a condenser coil that has corroded through, a capacitor or fan motor that failed early in the salt and heat, a refrigerant leak at a rusted fitting, or a drain line clogged with algae that trips the float switch and shuts the system off. In the older homes, a weak airflow complaint is very often a duct problem rather than a bad unit, which is why duct cleaning and sealing get asked about here almost as much as repairs.
When an outdoor coil near salt water has corroded badly, patching it often buys only a season, and that is the moment to talk about replacement honestly. If you do replace, the new system should be sized from the home itself, its windows, insulation and shade, not from the tonnage of the old unit, which in a house built in the 1950s may never have been right. For waterfront and canal lots we install coastal-grade components built to hold up to the salt.
Decades-old ductwork collects dust, construction debris and, in a humid attic, sometimes mold at the registers. Cleaning removes that buildup, but the bigger gain in these older homes usually comes from sealing: sealed, clean ducts can recover up to a third of the cooling that was leaking away. In condo units the ducts are short, so the focus shifts to the air handler, the coil and a drain line that stays clear.
Call at 2 a.m. or 2 p.m. and a real technician picks up, any day of the year. Before anything is touched you get the price, and if you go ahead, the repair carries a 30-day labor guarantee. The people who show up are KAF's own bilingual crew, licensed under CAC 1818942. If your condo building has rules for elevator or roof access, mention them when you call.
Serving Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding Broward County area.
From a rusted fitting leaking refrigerant on a Rio Vista canal lot to a dead fan motor in a Coral Ridge closet unit, we diagnose fast and quote before we fix.
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Replacement systems sized from your house, not the old unit's label, with coastal-grade parts for homes near the Intracoastal and up to a 10-year warranty.
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Deep cleaning and sealing for the decades-old attic ducts in Victoria Park, Croissant Park and Sailboat Bend, so the cold air stops leaking into the attic.
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Tune-ups that rinse salt off the outdoor coil and keep algae out of the drain line, scheduled more often for canal and waterfront homes.
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Handy for a Las Olas condo or a seasonal home: set cooling and humidity from your phone and check on the place while you are away.
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If the salt finally wins and the system has to go, flexible financing with $0 down and approval in minutes keeps the house cool while you pay over time.
Learn moreMostly the part and how far the salt has gotten. A failed capacitor is a quick fix, while a corroded coil or a leak at a rusted joint takes more parts and time, and a rooftop condo condenser can add access work. A technician diagnoses it first and you get a free estimate and an upfront price before any work starts.
In an older Fort Lauderdale home, a good rule is every few years, and right away if you just bought the house, finished a renovation or see dust and dark spots around the vents. Have the runs checked during the cleaning, because loose joints in those attics matter as much as the dust.
It depends on the age of the system and how widespread the corrosion is. A single leak on a fairly young unit can be worth fixing, but a coil that is flaking all over on an older system near the water usually keeps failing. We show you what we found and give you both options honestly.
Yes. We service the air handler in your unit and the condenser wherever the building has it. Let us know the building's access rules when you call.
Because the system here runs most months, a higher-efficiency unit pays back faster than it would up north. The right rating depends on your budget and the home, and it only delivers if the unit is sized correctly and the ducts are sealed, so we look at all three together.
We rinse and inspect the outdoor coil for salt damage, check refrigerant levels and electrical parts, clean the drain line and pan, and replace the filter. On canal and waterfront homes we suggest servicing more often than inland, since salt builds up faster.
"They replaced the motor and the AC was cooling again in under 30 minutes. The techs were polite, fast, and explained everything."
"Asked for a quote and they reached out within an hour, then showed up 30 minutes later. Same-day, professional, and a fair price."
"Virgilio helped us get a new AC unit and saved us money on financing. Honest company that does the work themselves — highly recommend."
No matter what's cooling your home, our technicians know it inside out.
Call now and talk to a real person. Most repairs are solved the same day — many in about 30 minutes.
