Heating & Cooling in Oakdale, MN

Central Minnesota Heating and Cooling, owned by Eric Brown and in business since 2009, serves Oakdale and nearby towns in Washington County, about 15 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 Oakdale 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.

Usually on the upper main level, on an inside wall away from supply registers, sunny windows and the kitchen. The catch in a split-entry is that the lower level never gets a vote, so it runs cool in winter. A smart thermostat with a remote sensor downstairs can average the two levels, and balancing dampers do the rest. A thermostat on the stairwell wall tends to read the warm air rising from below.

Often. A 90%+ furnace exhausts cool, damp air that frosts whatever it blows onto. The maker's instructions and code set clearances from windows, doors, decks and the property line, so the fix is a longer run to a wall facing open yard or up through the roof.

Start with the data plate inside the furnace door for its age, then look at the venting: metal pipe into a chimney or PVC out the wall. Make sure CO alarms sit within 10 feet of every bedroom, as state law requires, including any on the lower level. Note the filter size and condition. On the AC, the label shows the refrigerant; R-22 means older equipment. A tune-up, from $129, gives you a baseline.

Sometimes, but try the cheaper fixes first: more return air upstairs, a blower speed set for cooling, and balancing dampers. If the second floor still lags, zoning with a variable-speed system is the next step. A separate upstairs system usually means an air handler and ducts in the attic, which in Minnesota brings frost, condensation and heat-loss problems, so we suggest it only when the house can't be fixed another way.