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Since 2023, every new system in Texas has to meet South-region SEER2 minimums — so whatever you buy will outrun your old builder-grade unit. The real variable is design. Spicewood is acreage country: custom homes and ranchettes spread along long private drives, where a service call takes local knowledge just to find the gate. A rule-of-thumb tonnage swap ignores all of that; a proper load calculation doesn't.
Oversized systems short-cycle and leave rooms clammy. Undersized ones run flat-out through August and die young. The installers in our network quote options in plain terms — single-stage vs. variable-speed, zoning for the room that never cools, heat pump vs. straight cool — with real numbers side by side.
Permits go through the city or Travis County, and the licensed contractor pulls them. Be suspicious of any bid that skips that step — it usually isn't the only corner being cut.
Typical Central Texas replacements run from the mid thousands for straightforward single-stage swaps into five figures for large variable-speed or zoned systems. Efficiency upgrades often claw money back every summer, and qualifying heat pumps can add federal tax credits on top.
Here's our line: if a $300 repair buys your current system three more seasons, the pros we match will say so. If the repair bill is a third of replacement on a 12-year-old unit, they'll show you that math instead. Your exact quote comes before anything is ordered — and you decide.
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