Dickinson · Stark County · North Dakota

Volume 09 · Winter Edition
Est. 2009

So·Kool
Air Conditioning

Heating, cooling & plumbing for the homes and main streets of Dickinson, North Dakota — where January drops to twenty below and July forgets it ever did.

Year-round service Furnaces · Air conditioners
Boilers · Heat pumps · Plumbing

24/7 emergency line Stark · Billings · Dunn counties
Real technicians, never a call center.

01The Story

A trade shop with the thermostat set to honest.

So-Kool technician servicing a residential furnace in a Dickinson basement
Pl. 01 A routine furnace tune-up, west Dickinson

Dickinson sits where the prairie meets the badlands, and the weather here does not negotiate. So·Kool Air Conditioning was started in a garage on State Avenue in 2009, after a January cold snap left half a block without heat and one too many neighbors waiting on a voicemail. We bought a used van, painted the phone number on the door, and answered every call ourselves.

Fifteen winters later, we are still answering. The vans are newer, the team is bigger, and the diagnostic equipment reads refrigerant pressure to the decimal — but the rule has not changed. We quote the job before we start it, we explain what failed and why, and we do not sell a furnace to a house that needs a capacitor.

We work on residential and light commercial equipment across Dickinson, Stark County, and the surrounding prairie — Belfield, Richardton, Taylor, South Heart. Call at two in the morning and you will reach a person who knows what a draft inducer is.

Ray Kostelecky Owner · Master HVAC tech · Dickinson, ND
15+
winters on the road
across Stark County
4hr
average emergency
response window
3,200
systems installed
and serviced since '09
24/7
real-human dispatch
no call center, ever
02Services & Pricing

Every job priced before the wrench turns.

Indicative pricing for our most common calls across the Dickinson area. Final quotes are written, itemized, and locked before any work begins — no surprise line items, no “while we're in there” upsells.

i.Heating

High-efficiency furnace installation

Turnkey replacement of an 80% or 90% AFUE gas furnace with a modern variable-stage unit — equipment, labor, venting, electrical, thermostat, and the city permit. Sized properly to your square footage with a Manual J calculation, never a guess.

Indicative from $4,200 – $6,800 installed · equipment included
ii.Cooling

Central air conditioning install

New 14–16 SEER2 condenser and evaporator coil, matched to your existing furnace or air handler. Includes refrigerant line set, electrical disconnect, condensate drain, and a commissioning pass with documented superheat and subcool readings.

Indicative from $3,400 – $5,600 turnkey · 10-yr parts warranty
iii.Repairs

HVAC repair & diagnostic visit

Furnace short-cycling, AC freezing up, pilot won't hold, blower humming but not spinning — we trace the fault, document it, and quote the fix. The diagnostic fee is credited toward any repair we perform that same visit.

Diagnostic from $129 credited toward completed repair
iv.Plumbing

Residential plumbing repair

Frozen lines, dripping faucets, failed water heaters, running toilets, sump pump swaps, and the slow drain that finally backed up. Copper, PEX, and galvanized — we work on all of it, on houses new and old across Dickinson.

Service call from $89 – $240 most common repairs, parts included
v.Heat Pumps

Cold-climate heat pump conversion

Cold-climate air-source heat pumps sized for North Dakota winters, with backup electric heat strips integrated into your existing ductwork. We model the heating load against your utility rates so you know the payback before you sign.

Indicative from $6,800 – $11,400 installed · utility rebates may apply
vi.Emergency

24/7 emergency HVAC & plumbing

No-heat in February, burst pipe in March, AC out on the Fourth of July. Our after-hours line rings the on-call technician directly — a real person who lives within forty minutes of Dickinson, not a dispatcher three states away.

After-hours dispatch from $199 4-hour typical response · Stark & adjacent
03Why So-Kool

Four things we will not compromise on.

So-Kool service van and technician working on a residential AC condenser unit

Real people, real fast

Our after-hours line rings the on-call technician, not a call center. Average emergency response across the Dickinson area is under four hours — winter or summer.

Written quotes, locked

Every job is priced before the wrench turns. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice — no “while we're in there” line items, no parts markup surprises.

Licensed, insured, local

North Dakota licensed and fully insured. We live here, our kids go to school here, and the truck you see at the grocery store is the same one that pulls into your driveway.

Fix it right, once

We diagnose the failure, not the symptom. If a capacitor took out your compressor, we tell you that — and we do not replace the compressor without telling you the capacitor went first.

Let's get your house comfortable again.

Book a service call, request a free install estimate, or ring the 24/7 emergency line if your furnace just quit at ten below. We cover Dickinson and the surrounding Stark County prairie — Belfield, Richardton, Taylor, South Heart, and everywhere in between.

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