“We fix what needs to be fixed and we only recommend replacement when it makes sense,” Keith Edester says. “That’s part of the name.”
The name is Sensible Comfort Solutions, and Edester treats it as something to live up to. A failing air conditioner makes it easy to turn a repair call into a replacement quote. He says his shop tries not to work that way. “We’re honest and we don’t push sales,” he says. The aim is to repair what is broken without pushing add-ons or steering every call toward a new unit.
The company is Edester and his son. He puts the start of the Florida business at 2018, “I think,” and says he ran a business in Kentucky beginning in the 1990s before moving south. He holds a Florida certified air conditioning contractor license, CAC1819547, and works out of Merritt Island.
Most of the work is in houses. “We do both, but primarily residential,” Edester says, meaning homes and commercial buildings. The company’s site lists central air systems, heat pumps, mini-splits, mobile home units, rooftop units and walk-in coolers and freezers. It says the shop services every brand and installs Lennox, Gree and Heil equipment when a system has to go.
One customer described that order of operations in a review. When the household’s air conditioner quit, Edester showed up quickly and did what he could to revive it. The unit soon died for good, and he installed a new one right away.
When a replacement is warranted, the site says, the sizing starts with a load calculation rather than an estimate from square footage. Ceiling height, insulation, the direction windows face and the island’s humidity all go into the math. The reasoning is practical. An oversized system cycles on and off without pulling enough moisture from the air, and an undersized one runs constantly without reaching the set temperature. Most home installations, the company says, are finished in a single day. Its pages come back again and again to salt air and humidity, which wear coastal equipment down faster than inland conditions do.
The shop covers Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Viera, Rockledge and the rest of Brevard County.
Edester has not settled what comes after him. He doesn’t know yet whether his son will take over the business.
The rule he holds to day to day is about the calendar. “We can’t always get there, but we try to always be in contact,” he says. A missed appointment, in his telling, still gets a call. “If I schedule you for tomorrow at noon but it doesn’t work out, I always reach out and let you know.”