# Is there a charge just for coming out to look at my AC?

*Updated 2026-07-30*

**Short answer:** Depends what kind of visit it is. Diagnosing a broken system is an $89 diagnostic, and it is waived the moment you book the repair with us. An estimate for a new system, a replacement, or a rebate consultation is free. Either way there is no travel charge, and you will know which one applies before we ever drive over.

A customer asked us exactly this while booking, and it is a fair question that too many companies answer vaguely on purpose. Here is the whole policy, in writing.

**If something is broken, the visit is an $89 diagnostic.** That covers a technician finding the actual problem, naming the failed part, and giving you a written flat price for the fix. Book the repair with us and the $89 disappears, waived, folded into nothing. You only ever pay it if you take the diagnosis and stop there, and even then you keep something real: a written diagnosis you can use to compare anyone else's quote against.

**If you are pricing a new system, the visit is free.** Replacements, new installs, and rebate consultations cost nothing to quote. We come out, measure what your house actually needs, and put a real number in writing. No fee, no obligation, and the price will match our published ranges because those are the same numbers everyone gets.

**There is no travel charge in either case.** Bakersfield, Oildale, Delano, Tehachapi, anywhere in our service area, the drive is on us.

**After hours, the visit costs the same plus a flat $120.** A broken AC at 9pm is still the $89 diagnostic and the same published repair price, plus the flat after-hours adder. No double time, no emergency multiplier, no quote that mysteriously grows in the dark.

**One honest note about "free service calls."** Some companies advertise free diagnostics on repairs. Nothing is free; a free visit has to get paid for somewhere, and it is usually inside the repair quote, where you cannot see it. We would rather charge $89 honestly, waive it when we do the work, and keep the repair price itself published where you can check it before we ever knock. If a free-service-call quote and ours ever land on your kitchen table together, compare the bottom lines, not the visit fees.

You can see every repair price on [our services page](/services/) before you call, which is the whole point. The visit fee should be the least mysterious part of fixing your AC.

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