AC Repair in The Heights

The homes lining Kavanaugh Boulevard and the streets around Stifft Station went up in the early 1900s, decades before central air was a thing anyone designed for. Walk into a Heights craftsman or bungalow and you find plaster walls, ten-foot ceilings, and framing with no chase anywhere to run a supply trunk. That is the defining reality here: the ductwork most cooling equipment assumes simply does not exist, and cutting it in means gutting the very millwork that gives these houses their value.

High ceilings also throw off the load math. Heat stacks toward the top of a tall room, so a system sized off floor area alone leaves the living space warm while the thermostat reads satisfied. Add original single-pane windows that trade heat with the outdoors in both directions, and rule-of-thumb sizing fails twice over — a common reason these homes end up either too weak to keep up or so oversized they never wring out summer humidity.

Jet Heat and Air leans on ductless mini-splits for most of these houses — a single refrigerant line through one exterior wall, quiet heads placed room by room, and no plaster sacrificed. When a home does have workable ducts, we measure the real envelope before quoting a ton of anything. Veteran-owned and Arkansas licensed, we treat a hundred-year-old house as something to work around, not through.