AC Repair and Heating Repair in Travis Heights, Austin

Heating and AC repair in Travis Heights, the South Austin neighborhood between Lady Bird Lake, Congress Avenue, I-35 and Oltorf Street.

Call (737) 295-1994

Travis Heights Homes Through the Decades

Travis Heights was founded in 1912 and filled in through the 1920s, alongside the older Fairview Park development to the west of Blunn Creek. The neighborhood holds a mix of large historic houses, smaller cottages, apartment buildings and recent infill homes, often on the same block.

That mix means a block can hold an early house with a retrofit system in a cramped attic next to a new build with a modern heat pump. Ducts in the older houses tend to be long and leaky, and the air handlers are often squeezed into tight spaces.

Gas furnaces and electric heat both turn up here, which puts furnace work and heat pump work on the same streets. Older houses often carry a gas furnace in a closet with a cooling coil added on top, while newer infill homes lean toward heat pumps and attic air handlers. On the first cool nights of the season, furnace igniters and flame sensors fail on one block and heat pump defrost controls on the next. Garage apartments and backyard cottages add small split systems and ductless units to the mix, each with its own line set, drain and control board.

Frequent Repairs in Travis Heights

Leaky or disconnected attic ducts that leave back rooms warm
Outdoor units crowded by fences and shrubs on narrow lots
Capacitors and contactors worn down by long summer cycles
Heat pump defrost and backup heat problems in newer houses
Older gas furnaces with failed igniters and limit switches
Drain clogs in apartment air handler closets

Outdoor units in tight side yards and close to the creek tend to collect leaf litter, which blocks airflow across the condenser coil.

Blunn Creek, Stacy Park and Nearby Streets

Stacy Park runs along Blunn Creek, home to the spring-fed Big Stacy pool and the Little Stacy park and pool, and the Blunn Creek Nature Preserve covers almost 40 acres of the neighborhood. South Congress Avenue marks the west side. Meritt HVAC Repair covers Travis Heights on both sides of I-35, since some of the same streets continue east of the highway.

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Aerial view of homes and tree cover in Travis Heights, Austin, facing east

Heating and AC repair in Travis Heights

Call (737) 295-1994