NEW CONSTRUCTION · Pasco, WA
Heating and cooling designed for the house before the walls close.
Custom homes and commercial buildings across Pasco, Kennewick and Richland, with the system sized to the building instead of dropped in at the end.
Chapter 01
The cheapest time to get HVAC right is before the drywall goes up
Total Quality Air specializes in custom homes and commercial buildings, and the aim on a new build is to design and size the system around the needs of that particular home and family. Not a generic box copied from the last plan. Carlos Garcia has more than 20 years in the trade, and on a new build that experience pays off most at the drawing stage, when changes cost a pencil line instead of a wall.
Equipment closets, return paths, chases and a spot for the outdoor unit are all easy to settle on paper and expensive to fix after framing. A conversation with the builder early can save you a soffit nobody wanted, a stuffy bedroom, or a noisy air handler parked next to a quiet room. Bring us the plans and we will talk through where everything should go.
Exposed spiral ductwork in an open ceiling on a Total Quality Air commercial job
How a new-build job runs, from plan review to start-up
It starts with the plans. We review the floor plan and the building envelope, then size the system room by room instead of by square footage alone. A west-facing great room with tall windows needs different airflow than a north bedroom, and the duct layout, return locations and equipment choice all follow from those numbers. Total Quality Air is an American Standard dealer and works with all brands and models.
Then the work follows the builder’s schedule. Rough-in happens while the walls are open: equipment set, ducts hung and sealed, line sets and gas piping run, condensate routed. Trim-out comes after the finishes, with registers, grilles and the thermostat. Start-up is the last step, and nothing counts as done until the system has actually run through heating and cooling.
Commercial buildings follow the same logic with bigger loads. An office, a shop or a restaurant has its own ventilation needs, heat from equipment and people, and zones that should not fight each other. We have hung exposed spiral ductwork in open commercial ceilings, and we plan those jobs the same way: size it, lay it out, then build it.
Chapter 03
Handing the building over with air that moves evenly
A finished system should move air evenly. Balancing means checking that each room gets what it was sized for, so the far bedroom is not ten degrees off from the kitchen. It is a slow, unglamorous step, and it is the one that decides whether the owner calls the shop in the first heat wave or never thinks about the system at all.
Sealed ducts matter just as much in a new build. In Washington, the State Energy Code calls for duct testing when certain HVAC parts are installed, with the results going to you and the building official. Testing and sealing the ducts before the ceilings close is far easier than chasing leaks later, and it keeps conditioned air where you paid to put it.
Before we leave, the thermostat is set up and explained, and the first season gets a check so any small adjustment happens early. After that the shop at 619 N 3rd Ave in Pasco stays your number, (509) 205-1592. Hablamos Español, and we serve Kennewick and Richland builders and owners as well, residential and commercial.
"Their team was very professional, on time, and respectful." Raul Garcia, Google review.
Replacing a system in a house that already stands? That is our HVAC installation work. Building for a business instead of a home? Read about commercial HVAC.