Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Mechanical in Arlington Heights, IL
A short drive from our Des Plaines shop. Right Away Plumbing and HVAC provides reliable residential and commercial plumbing, heating, cooling and mechanical service to Arlington Heights and the surrounding Cook County area. Same-day appointments and upfront pricing are available for qualifying repairs.
Arlington Heights is one of our closest and busiest service areas. Much of the housing stock dates from the 1950s through the 1970s, so we regularly deal with aging galvanized supply lines, original cast iron drains, and furnaces and air conditioners that are well past their efficient years.
Being minutes from our Des Plaines location, Arlington Heights calls are usually easy to schedule quickly. We handle everything here from a single leaking valve to a full furnace and AC changeout, for both homes and commercial storefronts along the downtown and Golf Road corridors.
Property inspections in Arlington Heights
Buying, owning or managing a property? Right Away provides detailed plumbing, gas-line, furnace, heat-exchanger, condenser, boiler and water-heater inspections. We review accessible plumbing for applicable Illinois or Chicago code concerns, identify visible or verifiable water-service material, and can camera-inspect an accessible underground sewer. You receive a report with pictures, equipment age where determinable, maintenance condition, priorities and recommended next steps.
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Repairs, drains, sewers and water heaters for homes and businesses.
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Furnaces, boilers and heat pumps kept running through Chicago winters.
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Air conditioning repair, installation and maintenance you can count on.
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Commercial and residential mechanical systems, install through service.
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Arlington Heights is a short run from our Des Plaines shop, which matters most on the first hot week of summer and during heavy spring rain. The two calls that stack up are air conditioners that stop cooling and sump pumps that cannot keep up with a full pit in a finished basement.
We test the pump, float, check valve and discharge before replacing anything, and we install battery backup pumps for homes on the streets that lose power during storms. On the cooling side we diagnose the failed capacitor, contactor, coil or refrigerant leak rather than simply recharging a system that will be flat again in a month.
Qualifying installations may include our lifetime product, labor and parts warranty program; terms and eligibility apply.
Arlington Heights AC repair and replacement
Because so many Arlington Heights furnaces and condensers were installed together during the same remodel, they also tend to reach end of life together. When a summer repair is expensive on an aging unit, we quote the repair and a matched high-efficiency replacement together so you can see both numbers before deciding.
Short-term, the fastest fixes we see here are a filter that has not been changed since spring, a condenser coil packed with cottonwood, and a condensate drain that shut the system off on the safety switch.
More detail on symptoms, diagnosis and equipment is on our AC repair and air conditioning service page, our AC repair near me page for same-area service, including high-efficiency AC replacement. Heating equipment is covered on our furnace, boiler and heat pump repair page.
Upgrading an older, inefficient air conditioner to a high-efficiency system may reduce cooling electricity use by roughly 30%–50% in qualifying situations. Actual savings vary based on your existing equipment, the replacement system, home or building conditions, climate, installation, maintenance and how the system is used, so we will not promise a number before we have looked at your setup.
Furnace repair and replacement in Arlington Heights
Furnaces and condensers in Arlington Heights were often installed together during the same remodel, so they tend to reach the end of their service life within a season or two of each other. That makes the repair-versus-replace conversation a common one here.
We diagnose the current fault first, quote the repair honestly, and only then talk about replacement — including cases where staying with a mid-efficiency furnace makes more sense than venting changes the house cannot easily accommodate.
Fall checks for Arlington Heights homes
In Arlington Heights, older galvanized supply piping and cast-iron drainage often share the house with much newer heating equipment. Before sustained cold, it is useful to run the furnace long enough to verify steady airflow, check hose connections around additions and garages, and pay attention to a basement drain that reacts when another fixture runs. Those observations help separate a heating fault, an exposed water line and a developing main-drain restriction before winter makes access more difficult.
Related help: furnace repair, drain cleaning, and frozen-pipe service.
Aging supply lines and drains
Arlington Heights houses built through the 1950s and 1960s were plumbed with galvanized steel and cast iron. Galvanized narrows from the inside until pressure at the upstairs shower drops off, and cast iron drains scale and eventually crack at the hub. We camera the line first so you can see what we see, then quote either a spot repair or a sectional replacement rather than guessing at a whole-house repipe you may not need.
Furnace and air conditioning replacement
Heating and cooling equipment in this part of town frequently reaches the end of its service life all at once, because the furnace and condenser were installed together during the same remodel. When a repair no longer makes financial sense we walk through the replacement options honestly — including staying with a mid-efficiency unit where a condensing furnace would require venting changes the house cannot easily accommodate.
Downtown storefronts and Golf Road businesses
Commercial customers along the downtown blocks and the Golf Road corridor call us for rooftop unit service, grease-line rodding, water heater replacement and backflow-adjacent plumbing repairs. Because Arlington Heights is minutes from our shop, we can often get a technician out the same business day when a restaurant or salon has water or heat down.
Arlington Heights plumbing and HVAC FAQs
- Why should an Arlington Heights basement drain be checked before winter?
- A drain that gurgles, drains slowly or reacts when the washer empties may already have a branch or main-line restriction. Addressing it before frozen ground and holiday use add complications gives a plumber time to cable, jet or camera the line based on the actual symptom.
Equipment installation and replacement in Arlington Heights
When a system is past repair, we size and install the replacement rather than matching the plate on the old unit. In Arlington Heights that most often means furnace installation and replacement, steam and hot-water boiler installation, high-efficiency AC installation and water heater replacement. For a whole-house alternative to ducted equipment, see ductless mini-split installation and heat pump installation.
Qualifying installations may include our lifetime product, labor and parts warranty program; terms and eligibility apply.
Popular Arlington Heights services
The work we are called for most often in Arlington Heights is drain cleaning and sewer service, water heater repair and replacement, whole-house water filtration, sump pump installation and repair, furnace repair, AC repair and preventive maintenance for commercial equipment.
If you are weighing an upgrade rather than a repair, our energy savings consulting looks at heating, cooling and hot water together before any equipment is recommended.
Navien Installation and Service in Arlington Heights
Right Away Plumbing and HVAC is a certified Navien tankless water heater installer and service technician proudly serving Arlington Heights homeowners. We also install, service and troubleshoot Navien furnaces, boilers, heat pumps and water filtration systems to the manufacturer's published specifications.
If your Arlington Heights home needs a new high-efficiency system, routine maintenance, or fast troubleshooting on an existing Navien unit, our licensed technicians are ready to help.
Learn more on our Navien installation and service page, including certified tankless maintenance, error-code troubleshooting and gas safety.
Schedule Service in Arlington Heights
Ready to book? Call us at 847-550-3322. Our technicians are background-checked and arrive in fully stocked trucks.
Qualifying installations may include our lifetime product, labor and parts warranty program; terms and eligibility apply.
We also offer home and commercial inspections in Arlington Heights — schedule yours today.