AC and heating repair in Cedar Creek 78612

Cedar Creek runs along SH 71 between Bastrop and the Travis County line and takes in Wyldwood. Four homes in ten here are manufactured homes, the highest share on this line, and eight in ten heat with electricity. Piped gas reaches only about one home in twenty.

Manufactured homes change the conversation

With 40% of housing in manufactured homes, a large share of calls in 78612 involve a downflow furnace or air handler in a hall closet, a duct running under the floor inside the belly, and an outdoor AC or heat pump, or a package unit outside. A replacement indoor unit must be a model listed for manufactured homes, and a torn crossover duct under the home can make a healthy AC look broken. See manufactured home AC and heat.

The rest are site-built houses, many of them recent: about half of all housing in the ZIP code dates from 2000 or later.

Heat here is electric or propane

80% of homes heat mainly with electricity and 13% with propane. That makes two kinds of winter call. On an electric furnace or a heat pump, a heat strip, a sequencer or a breaker. On a propane furnace, the ignition sequence, plus the tank: if it ran empty, the supplier may need a leak check before refilling and relighting.

A colder spot than Bastrop

The NOAA cooperative station at Cedar Creek 5 S, south of the community, logs about 38 nights a year at or below freezing in the 1991–2020 normals, against 34 at Smithville and 18 at Elgin. Station readings vary with siting, but the direction is consistent: a heat pump here leans on its backup strips a little more often than in town, and a weak strip shows up sooner.

Summer is the same as anywhere on this line: about 122 days a year at 90°F or above at that station.

Rural access

Many lots in 78612 sit off county roads with gates, long drives and dogs. Say so when you call, along with whether the skirting has an access panel and how to reach the outdoor unit.

What to say when you call

• Manufactured or site-built, and the rough year
• Closet unit with an outdoor AC or heat pump, or a package unit outside
• Electric or propane heat
• The symptom and the thermostat readings
• The gate, the drive and the access

Questions from 78612

The far bedroom of the manufactured home never cools. Often the duct under the floor rather than the AC. A technician checks the crossover and the belly first.

The propane furnace will not light after the tank ran out. Call the propane supplier first about refilling, then the contractor for the relight if the furnace still locks out.