HVAC Repair in Beaumont, 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 Jefferson County will get in touch.
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Beaumont runs its system almost year round
Cooling runs April through October here, seven months of summer afternoons near 91°F. That is a long stretch for a compressor and condenser fan to carry that kind of heat load, and it shows up as weak cooling on the hottest afternoons or a system that runs and runs without catching up.
Winter is shorter, November through March, but those nights average 46°F, cool enough that the heat still has to work. Most homes here heat with electricity, so a hard freeze or a storm that knocks out power leaves the house with no backup. Jefferson County has logged 48 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and across Texas a third of households lost power for at least a day in 2024. When the power drops and comes back, most systems restart on their own, but whatever was already worn does not fix itself in the outage.
- 5 months
- November through March, your system heats
- 7 months
- April through October, it cools
- 46°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 91°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
Texas requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation tests contractors before they issue this license, and it keeps a record of who holds one. That covers the contractor as a whole, not the individual job. The state does not license a repair or a service call on its own. It licenses the person or business doing the work.
For a repair like this, that license is what stands behind the person coming to your house. It means the state has tested this contractor and has them on record, not just the company that employs them.
Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
- Why is my heat not working?
- Most likely something is stopping the system before it can produce heat, like a thermostat setting, a tripped breaker, or a safety switch that shut the furnace down. If you heat with electricity, check the breaker panel first since almost 6 in 10 homes here run electric heat and a tripped double-pole breaker will stop it cold. If the thermostat is set right and the breaker is fine, a contractor will need to check the igniter, the flame sensor, or the heat pump's outdoor unit depending on what you have.
- Why is my system running but not cooling the house?
- The system is moving air but something between the coil and your rooms is not doing its job. A dirty filter blocks airflow across the coil and can freeze it, so check that first. If the filter looks fine, the refrigerant charge could be low or the outdoor unit's coil could be caked with dirt, both of which keep the system from pulling heat out of the air. On a 91°F afternoon a struggling system falls behind fast, so it is worth having someone look at it before the next stretch of heat.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Start with the thermostat. Make sure it is set to heat or cool as needed and the batteries are not dead. Next check the breaker panel for a tripped breaker, since a tripped breaker will stop either a furnace or an air conditioner outright. Then pull the filter and hold it up to a light. If you cannot see light through it, replace it, since a clogged filter can cause both weak heat and weak cooling. If the system still is not working after that, a licensed contractor will need to look at it directly.