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Heating & Air Conditioning in El Dorado Hills, CA

For El Dorado Hills, in the western foothills about 25 miles east of downtown Sacramento, we handle furnace, air conditioner and heat pump repair and replacement.

Climate and your system

Elevation in El Dorado Hills varies: the two reference points we checked sit at about 770 and 1,130 feet, and no NOAA station inside the community keeps temperature normals. The nearest one that does is Placerville, about 20 km east at 1,850 feet, with Auburn, at about 1,290 feet, a little farther away to the north; both sit higher than those points, so we treat them as neighbors rather than as the town’s own record. Between them, July highs average about 93 to 94°F and January lows about 34 to 38°F, with Placerville logging around 30 freezing nights a year, and winter nights in El Dorado Hills are likely milder than that but colder than on the valley floor.

Despite the foothill setting, El Dorado Hills’ ZIP codes 95762, 95682 and 95672 are in Climate Zone 12, the same zone as Sacramento. When both the equipment and the ducts are replaced, Title 24 asks for more than a leakage test: airflow and fan efficiency are measured, a MERV 13 filter is required, and an ECC-Rater (formerly a HERS Rater) verifies the measured items.

Homes in El Dorado Hills

El Dorado Hills has roughly 18,800 homes, with a median build year of 2002; 57 percent were built in 2000 or later and only about one in eight before 1980. If the furnace and air conditioner were both installed when your house was built, replacing them together can be simpler than doing one now and the other a few years later.

Permits: El Dorado County

El Dorado Hills is unincorporated, and its HVAC permits come from El Dorado County’s Building Division, whose offices are in Placerville and South Lake Tahoe. Licensed contractors can email applications to replace an existing furnace, HVAC system, ducts or A/C coil and condenser, provided they hold a current El Dorado County business license and an eTRAKiT account, and the county charges 1.3 percent of the job value for these trade permits, with a $167 minimum. In architecturally controlled parts of the El Dorado Hills Community Services District, approval of outdoor mechanical units may be needed before the county issues the permit. We send the application to the county ourselves. Source: El Dorado County, Building Division.

Utilities and rebates

El Dorado Hills is in PG&E’s electric and gas territory. Your electricity may come through Pioneer Community Energy, the community choice program for unincorporated El Dorado County, with PG&E delivering it. For households that meet the income limits, PG&E’s Energy Savings Assistance program may fix or replace a gas furnace or water heater that PG&E finds unsafe or not working; our rebate guide covers the other programs we checked.

Replacing a wood stove or fireplace

The El Dorado County Air Quality Management District’s Chimney Smoke Reduction Incentive Program pays toward removing an old wood-burning unit and replacing it with an electric, natural gas or propane furnace or appliance, and low-income households can receive up to $2,000 in total incentives. The district requires pre-approval before the old unit is removed, so contact it through its incentives page first.

What we do in El Dorado Hills

If your home is in a CSD architectural-control area and the outdoor unit is moving, tell us early so the approval doesn’t hold up the permit.

Common questions in El Dorado Hills

Yes. In California a building permit is required when an HVAC unit is replaced. In El Dorado Hills, residential HVAC permits come from the El Dorado County Building Services Division, and most replacements also require a Title 24 duct leakage test verified by an independent ECC-Rater (formerly HERS Rater). We get the permit and schedule the test for you.
PG&E owns the electric lines and supplies natural gas in El Dorado Hills (with Pioneer Community Energy supplying electric generation for most accounts). As of October 2026 we found no open electric utility rebate for central heat pumps in PG&E territory, though GoGreen Home financing and El Dorado County AQMD wood stove incentives may apply when open.
Through November 30, 2026 our residential visit and diagnosis is $49 per system, and we waive the $49 fee if you approve the repair. The price is the same on evenings and weekends, and you get a written repair price before any work starts. New installation estimates are free.

Sources (October 2026): NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Placerville and Auburn (data) · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024, tables B25035 and B25034 · CEC Building Climate Zones · El Dorado County, Building Division.