AC Installation in Kendall - One Written Price, Rebates Handled

Fast, Reliable AC Installation Across Kendall

If your Kendall home needs a new air conditioner, you’re looking at a full-system installation that typically runs between $3,500 and $7,500 in this market, with most jobs completed in one to two days once the unit arrives. We handle AC Installation for homes from West Kendall to The Hammocks, and every job includes a written price before work starts, shoe covers on every floor surface, and a photo of the clean-up before our crew pulls out of your driveway. Call (747) 966-3037 and a live person answers, 24/7, no voicemail queue.

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Why Meadowsweet Heating & Air Is Kendall’s Preferred AC Installation Company

Kendall homeowners choose us for one reason that keeps showing up in every conversation: our crew treats this the way Luis Serrano trained us to treat a neighbor’s house. That means drop cloths across the tile, asking before we move anything in the garage, and keeping tools quiet during nap hours if you’ve got small kids at home. We’re backed by the Cedarwell Care Promise, the standard that has shaped this company since 2004: if it’s not done right, we make it right for 365 days after the install. No runaround, no fine print.

What’s different about us is the visible stuff. Before our technicians leave a Kendall job, they snap a photo of the cleaned-up work area and show it to you. Shoe covers go on at the door, not as an optional upsell, because the C.A.R.E. values code is the system we operate under: Clean up like it’s your own home, Ask before moving anything, Respect the family’s time and quiet hours, and Explain the price before the work. Luis Serrano has built the kind of local reputation that shows up when a Country Walk neighbor calls and says, “Hey, you did my sister’s system in 2018 and her floor still looks like it did before.”

Kendall’s housing stock is specific, and we know it well. Concrete block and stucco homes with ductwork running through attics that hit 140°F in July and August. That’s not an idle detail. It changes how we run line sets, how we seal duct connections, and how we spec equipment so you’re not replacing a coil three years early because nobody accounted for the heat. Dispatch and scheduling for our Kendall crews are coordinated from our Miami office, but the technicians working your street are local to this area and know the permit office, the hurricane code requirements, and the neighborhoods from 33173 to 33186.

Ductless Mini Split Installation in Kendall

Ductless Mini Split Installation in Kendall is the right call for a lot of homes here, especially CBS construction where adding or replacing ductwork means cutting into concrete and losing closet space. A mini split gives you zone control room by room, runs far more efficiently than a 30-year-old ducted system, and skips the attic ducts entirely, which matters in a market where those ducts bake at 140°F half the year. A typical multi-zone mini split install in Kendall runs between $3,500 and $7,500 depending on how many indoor heads you need and how far the line set has to travel.

When a Kendall Homeowner Needs Mini Splits

You park in a garage that doubles as a workshop and hits 95°F by 10 a.m. Or you added a guest room off the back that never quite cools, and running new duct from the central system would mean ripping open a flat limestone slab. Mini splits solve those problems without touching the existing ductwork. We see this most often in West Kendall neighborhoods like Country Walk, where post-Andrew rebuilds went in fast and some rooms simply never got adequate supply branches.

What the Install Involves

We mount the indoor head, run a small line set through an exterior wall, and set the outdoor condenser on a pad sized for Miami-Dade wind exposure. Every outdoor unit we install carries a Hurricane Zone NOA for wind uplift when the home requires it, which in Kendall it virtually always does. The whole job is typically done in a single day, with the price written down before we cut into anything.

AC Replacement in Kendall

AC Replacement in Kendall is often a full system swap rather than a simple condenser change, because so many homes in this area still run R-22 systems installed between 1994 and 1996 as part of the post-Andrew rebuild. Those units are at end of life, the R-22 supply is tightening every season, and the outdoor condensers were not built for the kind of dehumidification load Kendall’s dew points demand. A replacement condenser and coil in Kendall runs $3,500 to $7,500, and if you’re replacing the whole system it stays in that same range depending on tonnage and efficiency tier.

What We Find in the Rebuild Cohort

The Country Walk and Hammocks corridors are dense with these systems. Some have been maintained. Many have not. When we replace one, we run a static pressure check and look at the existing line set, because a 1995 line set buried under blown insulation in a 140°F attic is not something we want matched to a new high-efficiency condenser. In The Hammocks, we once found an old R-22 line set half-buried in insulation, so we re-ran the line set and charged the system by weight before commissioning it.

Miami-Dade NOA Is Not Optional Here

Any replacement condenser in Kendall has to carry a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance for wind uplift under the county’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone rules. This is a product-approval requirement that stops at the Broward county line, and we’ve had Kendall homeowners show us quotes from out-of-area contractors who spec’d units without one. That fails inspection. We spec NOA-listed condensers on every Kendall replacement, no exceptions.

Trusted Brands We Service in Kendall

Our crews are qualified on nine leading equipment brands, and for Kendall work we most often install Trane, Lennox, Goodman, and Rheem systems. If you already have a Carrier or a Daikin and want to stay with that same brand, we can do that too. Because we’re part of the Cedarwell family of HVAC companies, we keep parts for these systems in regional stock, which means a Trane capacitor or a Lennox control board doesn’t have to ship from somewhere else. For a replacement in Country Walk or The Hammocks, that faster parts access can be the difference between a swap that happens this week and one that slips into the next heat spike.

Common AC Installation Problems We See in Kendall Homes

• R-22 refrigerant supply squeeze. The 1994-1996 rebuild cohort in Country Walk and The Hammocks is hitting end-of-life all at once, and many of those units still run R-22. The supply is drying up, which means a homeowner who waits on a leaking R-22 system ends up paying for a full swap anyway, just later and with less choice on timing.
• Condensers without a Miami-Dade NOA. New equipment sold by out-of-area contractors sometimes lacks the wind-uplift approval Kendall requires. We see this when a homeowner calls us after a failed inspection, or when a neighbor refers them because another quote wasn’t NOA-listed and the permit got bounced.
• Attic ductwork baked to dust. Kendall attics routinely top 140°F in summer, which accelerates duct degradation. We open up the attic on maybe half our installs and find either disintegrating flex duct or gaps at the connections pushing cooled air into the attic. That has to be addressed before the new system goes in, and we show you photos of what we find before we touch anything.
• Wrong tonnage for exposed lots. The western edge of Kendall gets meaningful Everglades wind exposure, and a lot of lots out there have no wind shelter from trees or neighboring structures. If we don’t account for that exposure and for 75-78°F summer dew points, the system gets undersized on latent load and your house stays sticky even with the thermostat at 72.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Kendall

While this page covers Kendall, our crews also handle Kendall and neighboring communities across South Florida. If you’re in Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, or Orlando and searching for AC Installation with the same written-price-before-work standard, the same C.A.R.E. values, and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise, we can help. Call (747) 966-3037 and a live person will get you routed to the right crew.

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