Midtown Tucson, for this page, means the older grid: Sam Hughes, Blenman-Elm, Broadmoor, El Encanto, and the Speedway-to-Broadway streets around them. Houses are often masonry, one story, with a gas furnace and a straight air conditioner, or with an evaporative cooler that is still the whole cooling system. Equipment is frequently older than the equipment in Rita Ranch or Rancho Sahuarita. Sabino Creek Heating & Cooling works on those residential systems. Downtown and the university edge can share a ZIP with these neighborhoods, so put the ZIP and the neighborhood on the form.
Zip codes, housing, and utilities
Midtown, on this page, is the older grid: Sam Hughes, Blenman-Elm, Broadmoor, El Encanto, and the Speedway-to-Broadway streets around them. ZIPs people use here include 85716, 85719, and 85711, and a downtown or university address can share a code with these neighborhoods, so the ZIP and the neighborhood both belong on the form. Houses are often masonry, one story, built from the 1920s through the 1960s, with a gas furnace and a straight air conditioner or with an evaporative cooler that is still the whole cooling system. Electric service is Tucson Electric Power. Southwest Gas is the natural-gas utility. The paved core holds heat after sunset longer than the foothills, so summer nights stay warm, and a furnace that has not fired since April is the October failure. Side yards are tight. Condensers sit close to walls and to gravel. A TEP rebate is an account question for a qualifying replacement, not a reason to replace a cooler that still does its job.
The October failure here is the furnace that has not fired since spring. That diagnosis is furnace repair, and the planned version is a heating tune-up. Cooling failures are still AC repair. A roof or window cooler that stopped wetting the pads is swamp cooler repair, including fall winterizing. If you are deciding the cooler should go, read swamp cooler versus AC first.
Tight side yards and alleys change the repair. Condensers sit close to walls and to gravel that the blower pulls in. Returns are sometimes behind furniture in a small living room. One room that falls behind is often a duct, not a condemned compressor: ducts and attic heat. Refrigerant stickers on the oldest equipment are explained on R-22 and R-410A. You do not replace a system because the sticker says R-22.