Residential and Commercial AC Service in Fort Lauderdale, FL: What We Handle

BW Air Conditioning

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BW Air Conditioning provides air conditioning installation, repair and maintenance for both residential and commercial properties in Fort Lauderdale, FL — single-family homes, condos and high-rises, offices, retail spaces and warehouses. We are licensed and insured under Florida license CAC029407 and work on all major brands.

People often assume commercial HVAC is just residential work at a larger scale. The equipment overlaps, but the constraints are different enough that the two jobs barely resemble each other in practice.

Commercial rooftop air conditioning unit installed by BW Air Conditioning in Fort Lauderdale, FL

What Residential AC Service Involves

Most Fort Lauderdale homes run a split system: an air handler inside, a condenser outside, ducted through an attic or ceiling space. The priorities are comfort, humidity control and the electric bill, and the work happens around a family's schedule. Condos and high-rises are their own category — many run water-source heat pumps tied to a building loop, which is a different repair discipline and often comes with building rules about access and insurance.

Residential air conditioning condenser installed by BW Air Conditioning at a Fort Lauderdale, FL home

What Commercial AC Service Involves

Commercial work usually means rooftop package units, larger duct runs, multiple zones and occupancy loads that swing hard between a quiet Monday and a full Saturday. The controlling factor is rarely comfort alone — it is downtime. A restaurant or retail floor without cooling in August is losing revenue by the hour, which changes how you schedule work and how much redundancy is worth paying for.

Access and logistics. Roof access, crane or hoist requirements, and work windows outside business hours.
Load that changes hourly. People, lighting, kitchen equipment and computers all add heat that a home never sees.
Planned maintenance matters more. For a business, the cheapest repair is the failure that never happens during trading hours.

What both share is that capacity should be calculated rather than assumed. The industry standard load calculation, ACCA Manual J, exists because guessing at tonnage produces the same failure in a warehouse as it does in a bungalow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you work on condo and high-rise systems?

Yes. Many Fort Lauderdale condos run water-source heat pumps rather than conventional split systems, and we repair those for both residential owners and building managers. See our post on water-source heat pump repair.

Can one company really do both well?

It depends on the company. Ask directly what share of their work is commercial, whether they have handled your type of equipment, and whether they carry the insurance your building or landlord requires. A contractor who mostly does residential changeouts is not automatically the right choice for a rooftop unit.

Is commercial AC repair more expensive?

Often, because the equipment is larger and access is harder — but the comparison that matters to a business is the cost of the repair against the cost of being closed. Our post on commercial AC repair and service goes deeper on that trade-off.

Tell Us What You Have

Home, condo, storefront or warehouse — call (954) 565-7369 or get in touch and we will tell you honestly whether it is work we are the right fit for. Browse everything we do on our HVAC services page.