I’m Anthony Marquez. I own Air 4 North Texas, I do the work myself, and I’ve been serving northeast Tarrant County since 2021.
Most of the neighborhoods I work in here were built in the 1950s: small brick homes, a gas furnace in a hall closet or wall recess, ductwork installed before anybody thought about static pressure, and an AC system added on years later. These are solid, well-built houses — they just need a different approach than a 2015 subdivision, and plenty of companies quote them like they’re all the same.
Call or text (817) 888-7998 — 24/7 for no-heat and no-cool emergencies.
Honest Pricing
I put real numbers on the page. These are ranges, and the final price depends on your equipment, its age, refrigerant type and how hard it is to reach.
| Work | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Diagnostic / service call | $89 – $125 (higher end after hours) |
| Capacitor replacement | $150 – $350 |
| Contactor replacement | $325 – $475 |
| Refrigerant recharge | $200 – $600 |
| Furnace igniter or flame sensor | Low end of the repair range; usually a same-visit fix |
| Heat exchanger replacement | $1,500 – $4,500 |
| Blower motor | $800 – $4,200 |
| Full system replacement, straight-cool | $8,000 – $10,000 installed |
| Full system replacement, heat pump | $9,000 – $11,500 installed |
| Duct replacement | $6,500 – $18,000 |
Older systems come with an honest complication: parts availability. On some 20-plus-year-old units, the part costs more than it should and takes days to get. When that’s the case I’ll tell you, and I’ll show you the math on repair versus replacement instead of steering you.
Older Gas Heat Deserves a Real Inspection
Haltom City has more original-era gas furnaces still in service than any other city I work. Here’s what I actually check, and why it matters more here than in newer neighborhoods:
- Heat exchanger condition. A cracked exchanger on an old furnace is a carbon monoxide risk, not just an efficiency problem. If I find one, I’ll shut the unit down and tell you exactly what I saw.
- Flue and venting. Closet and wall furnaces vent through decades-old flue pipe. Rust, disconnected sections and bird nests are all things I’ve pulled out of Haltom City flues.
- Gas pressure and burner condition. Rust-scaled burners burn dirty and short-cycle.
- Return air. Many of these homes have one undersized central return. It starves the blower, overheats the exchanger in winter and freezes the coil in summer. Adding a properly sized return is often the single best dollar you can spend on an old system.
If your furnace is over 20 years old and hasn’t been inspected in five, get it looked at in October. Not on the first freezing night, when everybody in the city is calling at once.
The Freeze Everyone Remembers
February 2021 is the benchmark. DFW hit minus 2 degrees on February 16 and stayed at or below freezing for 139 consecutive hours (NWS Fort Worth). In older Haltom City housing that meant furnaces running continuously for days, exposed condensate lines freezing, and units that had been “fine” for years quitting under real load.
Then four months later it was 100 degrees and the same houses were asking those same systems to run 14 hours a day. North Texas equipment doesn’t get an easy season.
Services in Haltom City
- Heating and furnace repair, including gas furnace safety inspections
- AC repair and 24/7 emergency service
- AC installation and full system replacement
- Complete HVAC installation
- Maintenance and tune-ups
- HVAC inspections for buyers, sellers, landlords and rental properties
- Ductwork installation and modification — new returns, resized trunks, replaced runs
- Mini-split installation for additions, garages and shops
- Attic insulation inspection
- Light commercial HVAC
- Refrigeration — walk-in coolers, reach-ins, prep tables
Streets, Parks and ZIP Codes I Cover
Haltom City covers 76117 and part of 76137, and I work all of it. Areas and roads I’m in regularly:
- Denton Highway (US 377) north from Loop 820
- Belknap Street (Highway 26) and the businesses along it
- NE 28th Street (Highway 183)
- Beach Street, Haltom Road and Carson Street
- Interstate 820 frontage on both sides
- The Buffalo Ridge Park area off Parkwood Trail — at 95 acres it’s the city’s largest park (City of Haltom City)
- Broadway Park on Broadway Avenue, Haltom Road Park, Little Fossil Park and Birdville Trails Park
- The Haltom High School and Haltom City Public Library area
- The Tarrant County College Northeast Learning Center
Small Business HVAC and Refrigeration
There’s a lot of small commercial along Belknap, Denton Highway and NE 28th — auto shops, taquerias, salons, convenience stores, small warehouses. I do light commercial HVAC and refrigeration for those, which for most owners means one person who can look at both the rooftop unit and the walk-in cooler instead of two separate service calls.
If a cooler goes down you’re losing product by the hour, so those calls go to the front of my line. Call (817) 888-7998 and tell me it’s a refrigeration emergency.
Why Call Me Instead of a Big Outfit
- Family-owned, owner-operated. Since 2021. Same person every visit.
- Texas licensed and insured. License TACLA118169C.
- Upfront pricing, approved before work starts. No commission-driven upsell, because there’s nobody here to earn a commission.
- 24/7 emergency service.
- Close by. I’m based in North Richland Hills, minutes up Rufe Snow.
Haltom City HVAC Questions
How old is too old for a furnace? There’s no hard number, but past 20 years I start looking at it differently: heat exchanger condition, part availability, and how much you’ve already spent. A 22-year-old furnace with a clean exchanger and cheap available parts can keep going. One with a crack is done, immediately, for safety reasons.
My house is from the 1950s and has one big return grille. Is that a problem? Often, yes. A single undersized return is the most common airflow problem in this city. It shows up as a noisy system, weak airflow at the far registers, a coil that ices in summer and a furnace that cycles on its high-limit switch in winter. Adding or resizing a return costs a fraction of new equipment and fixes more than people expect.
Do you work on rental properties and duplexes? Yes. I do inspections and repairs for landlords across 76117 and 76137, including pre-lease HVAC checks and written documentation of what I found.
Can you service my restaurant’s cooler and its rooftop AC on the same visit? Yes. Light commercial HVAC and refrigeration are both in-house, so it’s one call and one bill.
Do you charge for a second opinion on someone else’s replacement quote? A diagnostic visit falls in the $89–$125 range. If you’ve already been told you need a new system, I’ll look at the actual system and tell you what I find, including if the other company was right.
Get It Fixed
And if nothing’s broken yet, I schedule inspections on their own:
- HVAC equipment inspection — including heat exchanger and flue check on older gas furnaces, which matters more here than almost anywhere in Tarrant County
- Ductwork inspection — a lot of Haltom City duct is original to the house and has never been looked at
- Attic insulation inspection — older homes often still have the thin original layer and nothing since
- Indoor air quality inspection — filtration, ventilation and humidity, plus anything getting pulled in from a crawlspace or unsealed return
If you’re buying an older house off Belknap or Carson, get the system looked at before you close, not after.
Call or text (817) 888-7998 Email Air4NorthTexas@gmail.com
Air 4 North Texas · 7029 Riviera Dr, North Richland Hills, TX 76180 · Serving Haltom City (76117, 76137) and northeast Tarrant County · Family-owned since 2021 · Licensed TACLA118169C and insured · 24/7 emergency service
Need service in Haltom City? Call or text and I’ll give you a straight answer on what it needs and what it costs.
(817) 888-7998