AC, heating, and plumbing — one Oro Valley crew, one guarantee.

AC out in Oro Valley? Picture Rocks Cooling, Heating & Plumbing runs same-day AC repair across Oro Valley. Every repair starts with an $89 diagnostic, waived when you go ahead with the repair, and the price goes in writing before any work starts. Shopping for a new system instead? A quality AC replacement starts around $10,500 for a 2- or 3-ton system, and the home visit for the quote is free.

We're family-owned, serving Tucson since 2001, licensed, bonded and insured, with 1,000+ reviews across platforms. We work all over town, from Rancho Vistoso and Sun City Vistoso to the homes along Oracle Road, Tangerine Road and La Cañada Drive. Call 520-655-8551, or book online.

Oro Valley sits up against the Santa Catalina Mountains, and that terrain matters more than most homeowners realize — a house tucked into the foothills can run cooler at night than one a mile away in open desert, so comfort problems here don't always look like the textbook. We treat AC and heating calls the same way we treat a leaking water heater or a slow drain: find what's actually happening in your house, not what's happening in general.

We're a cooling, heating, *and* plumbing company — plumbing isn't an afterthought bolted onto an AC business. Every job, either trade, gets documented instead of guessed at: water quality and pressure get checked with real meters, not eyeballed; sewer scopes come with the video. All of it — repair, install, or a Saturday leak — is backed by our written guarantee. See what's covered. We're also members of the Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce.

We test before we recommend anything: electrical connections, refrigerant pressures and airflow. Then you see the readings and get one flat price in writing. Common repairs run about $210–$250 for a capacitor, $300–$375 for a contactor and $700–$900 for a condenser fan motor. Repairs carry a written 1-year parts-and-labor warranty.

A real Oro Valley example: an outdoor fan motor replacement. The call came in as a thermostat problem, and the cause turned out to be a failed fan motor that had the compressor overheating. See the full process on our AC repair page.

If you're collecting quotes, compare how each company sized the system, not just the price at the bottom. We run a Manual J heat-load calculation on your home, test the ductwork, and verify the finished install with measureQuick readings and photos. A house tucked against the foothills doesn't load the same as one a mile out in open desert, so we don't size off the old unit's nameplate.

A quality AC replacement starts around $10,500 for a 2- or 3-ton system and around $11,000 for a 4-ton, whatever brand goes in. The written price is the price. Qualified residential installs carry our written 1-Year Money-Back Guarantee, and financing runs from $500 to $65,000 with terms up to 15 years, subject to approved credit. See financing options.

See a real one: an AC and furnace replacement in Oro Valley. Compare AC installation and replacement, furnace installation and heat pumps.

Many Tucson homes heat with heat pumps. If yours does, gas-furnace advice about burners or flame sensors does not apply to that equipment. When you call, tell us whether the problem happens during cooling, heating, or both.

Not sure what heats your home? Have any equipment paperwork handy and describe what the thermostat is doing. You don't need to diagnose the fault before calling. Keep notes on when the problem started and whether it happens in every room.

Either way, we run same-day furnace repair, especially for a no-heat call, and every furnace visit includes a gas and carbon monoxide safety check. A hot-surface ignitor is about $360 and a blower motor about $725. For a heat pump that cools but won't heat, we test the controls, reversing valve, airflow and refrigerant circuit before quoting a fix. Because a heat pump heats your home too, it works all year, which is why its fall tune-up matters as much as the spring one. See furnace repair, heat pump service or all of our heating services.

Before a cooling appointment, note which rooms get uncomfortable and when. Does the problem start in the afternoon, continue after sunset, or affect the whole house? For a foothills home, that room-by-room account is more useful than assuming the mountain setting explains everything.

Tucson has a long cooling season, March into October. Long cooling runs in extreme heat can be normal. Repeated, unusually brief runs are short cycling—tell us which pattern you're seeing rather than just saying the system runs too much. Desert dust and monsoon silt also load outdoor coils and filters.

Desert dust and monsoon silt load outdoor coils and filters here like everywhere else in the Tucson area. A one-time AC tune-up is $129. The Home Wellness Club is $195 a year or $19.99 a month for a spring cooling tune-up, a fall heating tune-up and a whole-home plumbing inspection, plus priority scheduling, 20% off repairs and a $49 diagnostic instead of $89. See what a tune-up covers.

Scale on fixtures and water-heating elements is normal in the Tucson area. Before calling about a fixture or hot-water problem, note where it happens: one faucet, several fixtures, hot water only, or cold water too. Mention any visible buildup without assuming it explains the whole problem.

Ask what the findings support before choosing a repair or water-treatment option. The price goes in writing before work starts.

Picture Rocks Cooling runs same-day plumbing service in Oro Valley. A residential service call is $89, waived when you go ahead with the repair, and finding a leak we can see is included. Drain cleaning through an accessible cleanout is $225, and a sewer camera inspection is $129, so you see the problem before anyone quotes a dig. Water is tested with an actual meter and pressure measured with real tools: no guessing, we're testing. See plumbing services, drain cleaning, leak detection and water treatment.

See a real job, step by step: outdoor fan motor replacement in Oro Valley, where a failed fan had the compressor overheating until the motor was replaced.

Or see an AC and furnace replacement in Oro Valley, step by step.