Rooftop AC Unit Lifts, Fort Lauderdale
Roughly 20 minutes north of the yard. We bring the same fleet and the same certified operators to Fort Lauderdale that we bring anywhere else between West Palm Beach and South Miami.
An AC change-out lives or dies on the lift. The unit has to come off the truck, clear the roofline, and land square on a curb that is often the same footprint as the crate. We do this several times a week, so the part your crew is worried about is the part we do every day.
Most residential change-outs are a 17-ton boom truck and under two hours on site. Commercial package units, tight courtyards, and anything past the second floor is where the 35-ton and 40-ton machines earn their keep.
Working in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is close enough that we can often get there the same day, and varied enough that no two jobs look alike. Downtown and Las Olas are mid and high-rise work with loading-zone coordination, while a few blocks away Victoria Park and Rio Vista are narrow historic streets with big shade trees and driveways a boom truck has to be threaded into.
The waterfront adds its own category. This is a marine city, and we get asked for lifts over seawalls, onto docks and around canal-front properties where the crane sets up on one side of a very expensive piece of landscaping and reaches over it.
Beach-side condo work is mostly AC and generator sets on decks, and it almost always needs a booked window with building management. Tell us the building name when you call; odds are decent we have already worked there.
What we need before we roll
- Unit weight. Off the spec sheet or the crate label. Most residential condensers run 150 to 400 lb; commercial packages go well past a ton.
- Roof height and setback. How high the deck is and how far in from the curb line the unit has to travel.
- Where the truck can sit. Driveway, street, alley. Overhead power lines are the single biggest thing that changes the plan.
- Curb ready or not. If the curb or pad is not finished we can still set it aside, but you will pay for a second trip.
Want the full rundown on this service? Read the Rooftop AC Unit Lifts page, or see everything we lift in Fort Lauderdale.