Tagline: Brooklyn homes, heated from the cellar up.
A repair crew that reads the house before it judges the machine
Brooklyn Air Care is a three-person repair crew working out of a bay off McDonald Avenue in Kensington. The founder spent fifteen years building ductwork in this borough's houses before he spent one day repairing what heats and cools them, and the company still works in that order: the house first, the equipment second. A boiler in a brownstone cellar, a ductless head over a parlor door, an air handler wedged into a two-family conversion: each one makes sense, or stops making sense, inside the building that holds it. Call Call for same-day help, Mon-Sat 7am-7pm, or start with the free estimate. Most calls are answered the same day, and no-heat calls in cold weather move to the front of the day as a matter of standing practice.
What breaks in Brooklyn, by season
Winter here is a boiler season. Steam systems in the prewar stock lose their temper one radiator at a time; hot water loops air-lock, circulate badly, or heat the first floor and abandon the third. Summer is a ductless and central season: heads that drip down plaster walls, condensers cooking in narrow side yards, top floors of brownstones that no window arrangement has ever honestly cooled. Between the two sits the borough's permanent condition, houses converted in stages over a century, each stage installed by a different hand with a different theory. This crew's work is reading those stages in order. The farthest room complains first, and it is usually telling the truth about the whole house.
The two services, and only two
Heating repair is the winter bench and the company's center of gravity: boilers, steam and hot water radiators, circulators, controls, and furnaces in the detached stock. AC repair is the summer bench: ductless mini-splits, central systems, and the airflow problems that make good equipment look guilty. Window units are the honest exception, and this page says what the service pages say: they are sealed appliances, usually replaced rather than repaired, and the useful conversation about one is what replaces it.
How a call runs
You describe what the house is doing: which rooms, since when, what changed. The crew asks about the building before the equipment, because in Brooklyn the building is usually the shorter path to the answer. The visit opens with a free, hassle-free, no-obligation estimate, and the figure for any work is confirmed by the contractor before work begins. Where tenants are part of the picture, say so early: coordinating a garden-level entry or a cellar boiler room around the people who live above it is ordinary work here, planned rather than improvised, though winter weather and building access can still move a day's order around.
Where the crew works
Twenty neighborhoods at launch, drawn where the borough's owner stock concentrates: the brownstone belt from Park Slope to Bedford-Stuyvesant, the northwest from Williamsburg to Fort Greene, and the southern detached neighborhoods from Bay Ridge to Canarsie. The full map, with the held neighborhoods named and the reasons stated, is on the service areas page.
Start here
House cold, house hot, or one room seceding from the rest: call Call for same-day help, or send the estimate form and describe the room that complains loudest. That room is where the visit will start.