Fulton County
Heating and Air in Alpharetta, GA
Twenty-nine free-flow minutes east across GA-140. It is the one city we work in that publishes what it charges to permit a furnace — which sounds like a footnote and is the single most useful thing we can tell you about working here.
- County
- Fulton County
- From the shop
- about 29 minutes, 16.2 miles
- ZIP codes we serve
- 30004 · 30005 · 30009 · 30022
GA-140 east to Rucker Road; GA-400 at exits 9, 10 and 11. Drive times are free-flow routing with no traffic model in them. Treat every one as a floor, not a promise.
What we run into in Alpharetta
The permit fees are published, line by line
This city publishes its mechanical permit fees openly: replacing a furnace and replacing a compressor are fifty dollars each, a whole-house single-family system is a hundred, miscellaneous duct work is fifty, with a fifty-dollar minimum on any permit. The application requires the contractor's state license card number, its class, and its expiry date. That is unusual — most jurisdictions here publish nothing, or publish a calculator that covers building permits only. It is useful to you because it means one line of a quote is independently checkable. If somebody quotes you three hundred dollars of permit on a furnace changeout in this city, you can look up what it actually costs.
A 1990s town, which is its own kind of job
The largest single decade of housing here is the 1990s at about thirty-five percent, the median year built is 1996, and under eight percent predates 1980. That puts most of the town on its second system, in houses built when duct design had settled into a pattern but before anybody was measuring static pressure as a matter of course. The recurring finding is undersized returns: one central return doing the work of two, which shows up as a blower that has never been quiet and a system that has never quite kept the upstairs.
Water and sewer are the county's, not the city's
There is no city-run community water system here — water and wastewater are the county's north Fulton system. It rarely matters for heating and air, with one exception that matters a great deal: a whole-home humidifier or a condensate pump needs a supply and a drain, and on the county system a homeowner sorting out a water pressure or backflow question is dealing with a different office from the one that issued the mechanical permit. Knowing which office is which saves an afternoon.
What we do in Alpharetta
Everything we do is available across the service area. The ones below have a page of their own for this town.
Everything we do here
Questions about Alpharetta
What does the permit actually cost here?
The city publishes it: fifty dollars to replace a furnace, fifty to replace a compressor, a hundred for a whole-house single-family system, and fifty for duct work, with a fifty-dollar minimum. It is in our price and you are welcome to check it against the city's own schedule.
How far is it, and do you actually cover this far east?
Twenty-nine free-flow minutes across GA-140, which is a driving time with no traffic in it. Yes, we cover it — it is a shorter run than our own northern edge, and this is one of the two towns out here where we do enough work to have the drive worked out.
My upstairs has never cooled properly. Is that the system or the ducts?
In a house of this era, usually the ducts, and specifically the returns. One central return trying to feed a two-story system is the pattern we find here more than anywhere else. It is measurable in about twenty minutes with a manometer, and it is worth measuring before anybody sells you a bigger system to solve it.
Book a call in Alpharetta
24/7 emergency service
Broken at 2am? That's the number.
(770) 555-0187No heat under 40° · No cooling over 85° · Gas smell · Water on the floor · A breaker that keeps tripping
One number, day or night, holidays included. It rings a rotation of our own technicians, not an answering service in another state.