PTAC Repair NYC — Hotels & Apartment Buildings

A PTAC (packaged terminal air conditioner) is the self-contained through-the-wall unit found under windows in most hotels, dorms, senior housing and postwar apartment buildings. In NYC they are common in Manhattan high-rises built after 1965 and in Queens co-ops. One unit handles both cooling and heating for a single room.

A business-hours PTAC diagnostic runs $150 to $250 and is credited toward the repair on approval. Most completed repairs land between $200 and $650: control boards, fan motors, capacitors, thermostats and chassis-slide seals. Compressor failure on a PTAC is usually a full chassis swap, not a repair.

Yes. We service hotels, extended-stay buildings and apartment buildings running 20 to 300 PTAC units. We keep chassis-swap stock for the two most common brands and run preventative maintenance contracts on a quarterly cycle. Ask us about the fleet-service rate.

Amana, GE Zoneline, Friedrich, LG, Gree and Islandaire most often. We stock capacitors, fan motors and thermostats for those brands and swap full chassis when the equipment is beyond economic repair.

The two common causes are a blocked drain pan condensate path and a chassis tilt out of specification. The unit must slope back toward the outside by a small amount so condensate drains outside, not inside. We check both on every leak call.

Yes in most cases. If the wall sleeve is intact and sized to the industry-standard 42 x 16 inch footprint, we slide out the old chassis and slide in the new one in the same day. If the sleeve is corroded or the wrong size, chassis swap becomes chassis-and-sleeve work with a small increase in scope.