Heat Pump Repair in College Station, TX
Homes here need heat from November through March and cooling from April through October. If your system quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Brazos County will get in touch.
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Your heat pump works almost every day of the year here
College Station asks for cooling seven months a year and heat for five more, so the system barely gets a break. On summer afternoons that hit 94°F it runs long hours to keep up, and on winter nights near 41°F it switches over to keep the house warm. That back and forth between heating and cooling puts real wear on the reversing valve, and when it sticks, the system blows the wrong temperature air or won't switch modes at all.
Most homes here heat with electricity, so the heat pump is not a backup system, it is the main one. That makes power loss a real problem. A third of Texas households lost power for at least a day in 2024, and the area has logged 75 damaging wind events and 5 winter storms over the past ten years. After an outage, check that the system has come back on. If it hasn't, the problem may be the power to it, not the unit itself.
- 5 months
- November through March, your system heats
- 7 months
- April through October, it cools
- 41°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 94°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
Texas requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
TDLR licenses the contractor, not the job. That license means the state tested this person or business and keeps a record of them, but it does not certify each repair that gets done.
A heat pump repair means opening the refrigerant side of the system, and that work calls for EPA Section 608 certification, a federal requirement that applies no matter what state you're in. The state license covers who is allowed to run the business and take the job. The federal certification covers the part of the work where refrigerant is handled.
Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
- Why is my heat pump blowing cold air?
- In heating mode, a heat pump moves warm air through the vents at a lower temperature than a furnace does, so it can feel cool against your skin even when it is working correctly. If the air feels truly cold, check that the thermostat is set to heat and not fan only, since the fan setting pushes air without running the heat cycle. A frozen outdoor coil or a system stuck in defrost can also leave you with cold air for a while. If the air stays cold with the thermostat set right, the system needs a contractor to look at the reversing valve or the refrigerant charge.
- Why is there ice on my heat pump?
- A heat pump is supposed to build a light frost in cold weather and clear it through a defrost cycle, so some ice is normal on winter nights near 41°F. Heavy ice that does not go away is different. That usually points to a fan that has stopped turning, low refrigerant, or a defrost control that has failed. Ice covering the whole unit blocks airflow and stops the outdoor coil from doing its job, so the system will run harder without heating the house. A contractor can tell whether the defrost board, the fan motor, or the charge is behind it.
- Why is my heat pump running but not cooling?
- If the outdoor unit and the indoor fan are both running but the air coming out is not cold, the most common cause is low refrigerant from a leak. A dirty outdoor coil or a blocked filter can also choke off airflow enough that the system can't pull heat out of the house, which matters more here with summer afternoons near 94°F pushing the unit hard. A failed compressor will do this too, though that shows up less often than a leak or a dirty coil. A contractor needs to check the charge and the airflow to find which one it is.