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Heating and cooling in condos, apartments and office towers.
What's in a Bellevue tower's system, which parts are usually yours, and how we work inside a managed building — for owners, residents, boards and office tenants.
Three common set-ups in Bellevue towers.
- Water-loop heat pumps
- A heat pump in each unit, connected to a building water loop. The loop — boiler, cooling tower, pumps — is shared.
- Four-pipe fan coils
- A fan coil in each unit fed with heated and chilled water from central plant.
- Ductless splits
- A wall or ceiling head indoors and a small condenser on the balcony or roof, serving one unit.
Many buildings also have electric baseboards or ceiling heat alongside. Which set-up you have decides what can go wrong and who's likely to pay for it.
When it's your unit.
Most calls from condo owners are about the equipment in the unit: a heat pump or fan coil that's noisy, leaking, not heating or not cooling, a thermostat that's stopped responding, a clogged drain.
- We diagnose whether the fault is in your unit or in the building's shared system.
- If it's the building's, we write it down so you can take it to management.
- Replacements matched to what the building allows — size, location, noise and refrigerant.
When it's the building — or the suite.
For associations and managers, we look after unit equipment across a building on a schedule, and write up the condition of each unit so owners and boards can plan.
For office tenants, the split is usually between the landlord's base-building system and equipment the tenant installed: supplemental cooling for a server room, a split system for a conference room. Your lease decides who owns what; we'll tell you what each piece serves.
We don't interpret your documents
Declarations, bylaws and leases decide who's responsible — not us, and not a website. What we can do is tell you, in writing, what a part is, what it serves and what's wrong with it. That's usually what the conversation with management needs.
In a tower? Tell us the building.
We'll arrange access with management before we come.