Heating & Cooling in Arlington, MN

Central Minnesota Heating and Cooling, owned by Eric Brown and in business since 2009, serves Arlington and nearby towns in Sibley County, about 47 miles from downtown Minneapolis. We're open 7 days, 7am–9pm, and no-heat calls get priority. Call 612-429-3465.

An HVAC service call in Arlington is a flat $79 trip charge, waived when you approve the repair. You get a written price before any work. Installed prices are on our pricing page.

Cooling depends more on air moving through every room than heating does. With one central return, air from the far bedrooms has to work its way back under doors and down the hall, so those rooms stay warm in summer even when they heat fine in winter. Adding a return at that end of the house is a modest job that often fixes it.

A 96% furnace makes condensate, a steady trickle in cold weather, that has to drain away. If there's a floor drain nearby, a trap and a line to the drain is enough. If not, a small condensate pump lifts it to the laundry tub or a drain line. We keep drain lines away from cold walls so they can't freeze and shut the furnace down.

Often, the old ducts can stay. Ducts left from a coal or oil conversion are usually oversized, so they move air easily, but they tend to leak at every seam and may have no return upstairs. Before we quote, we measure static pressure, seal the joints we can reach and check for old white wrap that should be tested for asbestos. A new furnace on sealed, balanced ducts runs quieter and heats the far rooms better.

On propane it usually pays back faster than on natural gas, because each gallon costs more and a 96% furnace wastes less of it. Installed, an 80% furnace runs roughly $4,500–$6,000 and a 96–98% model roughly $6,500–$9,500. The high-efficiency unit needs PVC venting and a condensate drain that can't freeze, which matters in farmhouse basements with cold corners. We price both so you can compare.