AC repair, heating & plumbing in Tucson — both trades, one shop.

Picture Rocks Cooling, Heating & Plumbing is a family-owned Tucson company, serving Tucson since 2001, with our shop in central Tucson. We hold both licenses — AZ ROC CR-39 #208709 for heating and cooling and CR-77 #293702 for plumbing — so a dead AC, a cold furnace and a leaking water heater are one call. Between July and mid-October 2026, more than 400 of our completed jobs were at Tucson addresses.

Every repair starts the same way: an $89 diagnostic, waived when you go ahead with the repair, then one flat price in writing before any work starts. Quotes on a new system are free. We run same-day service Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tucson's monsoon season pushes dust into ductwork and coils every summer, and the valley's hard tap water works scale into water heaters and fixtures year-round. We watch for both on every visit.

House won't cool? Book same-day AC repair in Tucson. We test before we quote, so you pay for the fix the system actually needs. Common flat-rate repairs: a capacitor runs about $210–$250, a contactor $300–$375, a condenser fan motor $700–$900, and a clogged condensate line about $135. Every repair carries a written one-year parts and labor warranty.

Common prices for every trade are on our pricing page.

A new AC installation in Tucson starts around $10,500 for a 2- or 3-ton system and around $11,000 for a 4-ton, whatever brand goes in. We size it with a Manual J load calculation, pre-measure the home and ductwork, and verify the finished system with live instruments. The written price is the price you pay; the only exception is something nobody could see before work started, like a line set leaking inside a wall, and we show you before we touch it.

Qualifying residential installs carry Tucson's only true 1-year money-back guarantee. Most installers don't offer one. The few that do keep the decision for themselves. Ours: three tries, then your money back — interest included. Financing runs $500 to $65,000 with terms up to 15 years, subject to approved credit; ask about our 0% APR plans (there's always one; how long the 0% lasts depends on the plan). Not sure yet? Read what a new AC costs in Tucson, or compare a heat pump and ductless mini-splits — like six ductless heads sized room by room in Tucson.

No heat? Furnace repair in Tucson is same-day, with a gas and carbon monoxide safety check on every visit. Common repairs: a flame sensor about $150, a hot-surface ignitor about $360, a blower motor about $725. When a furnace is past saving, furnace replacement gets the same Manual J sizing as an AC, and a heat pump can replace both with one system — a fit for mild Tucson winters. Everything heating is on one page: heating services.

Tucson's hard water shortens a water heater's life. Water heater replacement in Tucson starts at $2,511 installed for an electric tank and $2,743 installed for a gas tank, priced in writing before work starts. If yours still has life in it, a tank flush is $129 and a tankless descale is $175. If the tank itself is leaking, it gets replaced; a leaking tank doesn't get repaired. Tankless is quoted in your home, and the estimate visit is free. To slow the scale at the source, we test your water first and price water treatment off the reading.

Our Tucson plumbing service starts with the same $89 call, waived when you go ahead with the repair. Typical prices: drain cleaning through an accessible cleanout $225, main-line hydro jetting $899, and a sewer camera inspection $129, so you see the roots or the break before anyone quotes a dig. A leak we can see, we find on the service call at no separate charge; hidden and slab leaks go to leak detection. Corroded supply lines get a whole-home repipe, done once, correctly.

In an older central Tucson home, start with the pipe material, not just the home's age. Copper supply lines can develop pinhole leaks from water chemistry. Older sewer laterals may be clay or cast iron. These are different parts of the plumbing: a leaking supply line and a backed-up drain need different answers.

If you've had previous leaks, tell us where they happened and whether the same section was repaired more than once. Keep any repair records or sewer video from when you bought the house. Ask for evidence of the pipe's condition before deciding between another repair and broader replacement; the age of the house alone isn't that evidence.

For a recurring sewer problem, ask what the camera shows rather than assuming the whole lateral needs replacing. The price goes in writing before work starts.

When reviewing records for an older Tucson home, separate supply-pipe repairs from sewer-lateral work. A copper pinhole repair tells you about the water-supply side; it does not establish the condition of a clay or cast-iron lateral. Likewise, a sewer repair does not tell you whether the copper supply lines have been replaced.

Look for dates, locations and the material named on each invoice. If an old record says only "plumbing replaced," ask which line and how much of it. For an earlier sewer scope, check which stretch was inspected and whether repairs followed. Use those records as background, not proof of the pipes' condition today.

In September 2026, we completed an AC capacitor replacement in Tucson.

See a real job, step by step: indoor blower motor replacement in Tucson, from the no-cooling call to the motor's recorded operating data.

For an installation, see six ductless heads sized room by room in Tucson, or a rooftop AC replacement in northwest Tucson, from the old unit coming off the roof to the finished install.

The same crews, prices and written guarantees cover the towns around the city:

• Northwest: Marana, Picture Rocks, Red Rock and Casas Adobes
• North: Oro Valley, Catalina and the Catalina Foothills
• Southwest and south: Drexel Heights, Sahuarita and Green Valley
• Southeast: Vail

There's no trip charge anywhere in our service area. See every town on the service areas page.