SERVING RIPON, CA · SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
Wally Falke’s repairs, replaces, and maintains air conditioners, furnaces, and heat pumps for Ripon homes, about 25 minutes north on Highway 99 from our Turlock shop. The Falke family has answered this valley’s comfort calls since 1969, and a real person picks up our phone 24 hours a day. Call (209) 632-7596 or request service below.
Same-day for emergencies · free in-home estimates on new systems
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Third-Generation · Family-Owned
Wally Falke’s Heating & Air Conditioning is a third-generation family company out of Turlock, serving Ripon and the 99 corridor. We hold C20 and C10 licenses (CSLB #312288), install York systems while repairing every brand, and stand behind the work with our Triple Trust Guarantee. Ripon businesses call us for light commercial HVAC too.
Cooling · 24/7 Emergency Response
When an air conditioner quits in Ripon, we answer at any hour and can usually have a technician out the same day. This is a town ringed by almond orchards, and from August into October the harvest shakers put fine dust in the air right as cooling season peaks. That dust packs condenser coils and chokes filters, and our techs walk in expecting it. You’ll get the diagnostic price before we start, and it comes off the repair bill. Full process on our AC repair page.
The “$5,000 Rule”: Multiply the unit’s age by the repair cost, and past $5,000, replacement usually deserves a look. We’ll always provide an honest assessment after diagnostic work.
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Cooling · Installation & Replacement
The median Ripon house was built in 1995, which means the air conditioner coming out today is often the second one the home has worn through. If the first two never quite kept up on 95° afternoons, copying the old nameplate onto a third won’t fix it. We measure the house and duct system before we quote. York equipment across a range of efficiency tiers, financing available, Triple Trust Guarantee on the work. Compare options on our AC installation page.
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Heating · 24/7 No-Heat Calls
Furnace repair in Ripon runs in waves, and there’s a reason: most of this town went up street by street in the ’90s and 2000s, so the builder-grade furnaces on any given block are all the same age. When one fails, its neighbors usually aren’t far behind. If yours is the one that quits on a cold December night, no-heat calls jump our line 24 hours a day, and we test for carbon monoxide and gas leaks on every visit. More on our heating repair page.
Heating · York-Factory Trained
Wally Falke’s provides furnace installation and replacement in Ripon homes. A new furnace is a 20-year decision, and in Ripon it lands in the middle of a genuinely open question: which utility will be billing this house in five years (more on that below). What doesn’t change is that winter gas costs money, so we steer most Ripon replacements toward high-efficiency two-stage York models that lower the bill no matter who sends it. Honest sizing, free estimates, and the full process on our furnace installation page.
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Ripon homes hold their value like few places in the valley, and the heating and cooling system is the most expensive machine inside nearly all of them. Maintenance is how you protect that: we tune the AC before the first triple-digit stretch and the furnace before winter, catching small problems while they’re still cheap to fix. VIP Maintenance Plan members get both visits scheduled for them, priority service, and repair discounts.
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Heat Pumps & Ductless Mini-Splits
Heat pump calls in Ripon are mostly repair calls, and we handle them for every brand, including the ductless mini-splits local families have added to bonus rooms over the garage and other corners the original ductwork never reached. We repair, replace, and install both ducted and ductless systems, and if you’re considering a first heat pump we’ll give you the straight operating-cost math for a PG&E-billed house. Start on our heat pumps page.
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Ripon might be the only town in the valley with three utilities in its future. Today, every Ripon home buys electricity and gas from PG&E. But Modesto Irrigation District already powers some Ripon industry, and South San Joaquin Irrigation District holds court-upheld approval to take over retail electric here. The City of Ripon has already signed a revenue agreement for the day that happens. Until any of it lands, your bill is PG&E-priced, and efficiency is the one part you control. We’ll tell you which rebates a Ripon address qualifies for right now and handle the paperwork.
The houses tell their own story: a small older core near Main Street, then layer after layer of ’90s-and-newer subdivisions. These are big two-story plans built against mid-90s Julys and upper-30s January nights, in the town that’s thrown the Almond Blossom Festival every February since 1962.
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Beyond the Big Six
A real person, not a machine. Our phones are staffed 24 hours a day. Turlock to Ripon is a straight run up Highway 99, about 25 minutes, and most calls get same-day service. No-heat and no-cool calls move to the front of the line. There’s no travel charge for Ripon addresses.
Multiply the repair quote by the system’s age. Past $5,000, replacement usually wins. A lot of Ripon systems from the ’90s building boom sit right on that line, so we’ll show you both numbers after the diagnostic and let the math decide. No pressure either way.
Repair is most of what we do with them. Every brand, ducted or ductless, including the bonus-room mini-splits common in Ripon two-stories. If a unit is past saving we’ll say so plainly and price the replacement on the spot.
Yes: whole-house filtration, air purifiers, and UV lamps that work with your existing system. Between valley dust and wildfire smoke, Ripon air gives filters a workout; see the options on our indoor air quality page.
Around here a professional diagnostic typically lands between $100 and $250. We tell you our exact price when you call, quote the repair before any work starts, and apply the diagnostic to the repair if you go ahead, so finding the problem doesn’t cost extra on top of fixing it.
Usually, yes. Same-day furnace repair is one of the most common calls we run in Ripon, our trucks carry the parts that fail most often, and every visit includes carbon monoxide and gas-leak checks before we leave.
Not yet. SSJID has approval to take over Ripon’s electric service but is still in court with PG&E, so today both your electricity and gas come from PG&E. That means current rebates run through PG&E and statewide programs. We’ll check what your project qualifies for and file it with the job.
“Ripon, we’re already on the way!
(209) 632-7596″
—Wally
