Light-commercial HVAC in Orlando
Pierrelouis Mechanical maintains rooftop and split systems for strip centers, small offices and the property managers who run them. We start with a unit census, so every call after it begins with what is on your roof.
Property managers and owners
The paperwork
The state license can be checked online, and the certificates go out with the first proposal.
Class A Air Conditioning ContractorVerify
FL Lic. 000000 · Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Can pull permits for air-conditioning work of any size
General liability and workers' compensation
Certificate naming your property, on request
EPA Section 608
Our technicians hold EPA Section 608 certification
Certificate of insurance
Naming your property
W-9
With the first proposal
The unit census
A census lists every rooftop and split unit in a building, its tonnage and how to reach it. We walk the roof once, and every visit after it starts from that page.
A number on the unit and on your roof sketch, so a tenant's call names the unit and not a corner of the building.
Read from the data plate. Tonnage sets the price of a repair or a replacement, so it is the field that matters most.
Interior ladder, roof hatch, exterior ladder or a lift. Who holds the key, and whether the landlord is told first.
Filter size and count, belt size, coil type. The first visit arrives with the right parts.
The suite or tenant each unit serves, and a name to call there. A no-cooling call goes to a person, not a mailbox.
A sample roof, shown for its fields. Your census lists your own units.
Contracts
Pick how often each unit is visited. The price is per unit, so a strip center with six units and a clinic with two read the same way.
A spring and a fall visit for units with a light load: a shop, a salon, a small office.
Units over 10 tons and roofs that need a lift are priced from the census.
A visit each quarter, for buildings where tenants notice the first warm day: offices, clinics, restaurants.
Units over 10 tons and roofs that need a lift are priced from the census.
Quarterly visits plus an after-hours line, for managers who answer to owners and boards across several buildings.
Units over 10 tons and roofs that need a lift are priced from the census.
A contract is a service agreement, not insurance. The Portfolio after-hours line is billed at the contract's after-hours rate. Your price is written on a proposal after the census. Billed once a year, per unit. To cancel, send written notice 30 days before the renewal date; we send a reminder 60 days ahead.
What we keep running
Scheduled visits on every unit in your census, each with a written report.
Filters, belts and drains
Coils rinsed, electrical checked
A report for each unit, by tag
Diagnosis first, a written quote next, then the work.
Parts and refrigerant quoted first
Crane or lift booked when the roof needs one
Permit pulled for replacements
For suites that run hot or cold: ducts inspected and air balanced to the tenant's layout.
Duct runs and curbs inspected
Supply and return balanced
Findings written for the manager
New suites need a new layout. We coordinate with your contractor on units, diffusers and the balance.
Load check for the new layout
Diffusers and returns moved
Start-up and balance report
The maintenance year
Cooling runs most of the year here. This is when each visit falls, so a manager can plan the budget and the notices to tenants.
We walk the roof with last year's sheet and update units, tags and access.
Jan-Feb
Before the long run of heat, coils are rinsed and condensate lines cleared. In humid weather they clog fast.
Mar-May
Contract accounts are booked ahead of other calls. Tell tenants who to call.
Jun-Sep
Panels, latches and disconnects are checked at every visit. After a named storm, we check restarts unit by unit.
Jun-Nov
Filters, belts and controls, and thermostat schedules reset for cooler weeks.
Oct-Nov
Units that have heat are tested in heating mode in the first cold week.
Dec-Feb
Dates move with the weather. Your contract sets your own visit dates.
On your roof
Our technicians tell the property manager before they go up and again when they come down.
Roof access confirmed with you before the visit
Fall protection wherever the roof has an edge or a skylight
Power locked out before a panel comes off
A written report for every unit we touched
From managers and tenants
“The census sheet is the first thing I hand a new technician. Every unit has a tag, a tonnage and a way up, so nobody calls me from the roof asking which one.”
“I get one report with every unit on it. When a tenant asked about the dental suite, I found its unit and its last visit in the same row.”
“I read the unit tag off the sticker to the front desk, and the technician already knew which unit and which roof ladder.”
Sample reviews.
Service area
Strip centers, offices and plazas in Orange and Seminole counties. Type your ZIP to check it.
We don't work in Osceola or Lake counties or on the coast; for those, call a firm on that side of the region.
ZIP codes: 32801, 32803, 32804, 32805, 32806, 32807, 32808, 32809, 32810, 32811, 32812, 32819, 32822, 32824, 32827, 32828, 32835, 32837, 32839, 32701, 32771, 32779, 32712
Questions
It is one sheet per building that lists each rooftop and split unit, its tonnage, how to reach it and who it cools. We walk the roof once, before the first scheduled visit. The proposal says in writing what the walk costs before we come.
How we get up (interior ladder, roof hatch, exterior ladder or a lift), who holds the key, and whether the owner must be told before anyone goes up. If the roof has no fixed way up, say so and we will plan the lift or the ladder.
The tenant can call our office with the unit tag, or you can. Dispatch finds the unit on your census, the technician arrives knowing its model and its roof access, and you get the report. Your contract says whether tenants may call directly.
No. A contract pays for visits and the checks on the list. Parts, refrigerant and repair labor are quoted in writing before we start, and you approve them first. A contract is a service agreement, not insurance.
We do. Our Class A license lets us pull permits for air-conditioning work of any size. The proposal lists the permit, the crane or lift and the haul-away of the old unit as separate lines.
Our office hours are at the top of the page. On the Portfolio contract the after-hours line reaches the on-call technician, who works at the contract's after-hours rate. Without that contract, call in the morning and we book you as capacity allows.
Send the building's address and a rough count of units. We reply with a proposal for the census walk.
Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.