Industrial & Residential Cooling Specialists
From split-type units in Iligan homes to cold storage a business cannot afford to lose — installation, repair, cleaning, and maintenance across Iligan City and Lanao del Norte.
About Us
Two decades of plant floors, cold storage, and commercial systems — the equipment a business genuinely cannot trade without.
The shop opened in May 2002 and has been running ever since. The work has taken the team across Mindanao rather than keeping it inside Iligan — industrial and commercial projects island-wide, with residential and smaller service calls around Iligan City and Lanao del Norte.
Get a quoteLance is one of the contractors appointed to keep the air conditioning and refrigeration running in Wilcon branches across Mindanao.
We have never said no to a job.
Our Services
Six services covering the whole life of a system — specifying it, fitting it, keeping it clean, and fixing it when it stops. Cooling only: we do not take heating work, because nobody in Iligan is asking for it.
Cold storage, chillers, display cases, and ice machines — sized to the load, not to the cheapest quote.
Ask about Industrial & Commercial RefrigerationPackaged, ducted, and VRF systems for plant floors, warehouses, and commercial space.
Ask about Industrial & Commercial Air ConditioningWindow and split-type units for homes, sized and piped properly the first time.
Ask about Residential Air ConditioningGeneral cleaning and full chemical wash. Coastal salt air fouls coils fast here.
Ask about Cleaning & Chemical WashDiagnosis first, parts second — so the same fault does not come back in two months.
Ask about Repair & TroubleshootingScheduled servicing for businesses that cannot afford an outage, with a written report each visit.
Ask about Preventive Maintenance ContractsWhy Lance
Anyone can bolt a unit to a wall. The value is in specifying the right system, finding the real fault, and being here next month when you need a follow-up.
Cold storage, chillers, and packaged systems are a different discipline from residential aircon. We do both, so you are not handing a commercial freezer to someone whose experience stops at a 1.5 HP wall unit.
Every job starts with finding the actual fault. You get told what failed and why, so the same problem does not come back in two months wearing a different symptom.
You see the scope and the cost in writing before anyone opens a unit. No figure changes halfway through unless we find something and you approve it first.
The shop is on Bro. Raymund Jeffrey Road, so Iligan and Lanao del Norte get a same-week response and warranty follow-ups do not mean waiting on a crew from another province. Industrial and commercial projects are taken on across Mindanao.
Lance is one of the authorised maintenance providers for Wilcon branches in Mindanao. Keeping a retail chain’s cooling running is contract work with real consequences for missing it, and it is held alongside the shop’s other commercial clients.
Over two decades of it, most of that on industrial systems. Long enough that the awkward faults, the discontinued parts, and the installs someone else walked away from are familiar rather than novel.
Recovery and recharging done to spec, with the right refrigerant for the system. Topping up a leaking system without fixing the leak is not a repair, and we will tell you so.
Every install closes with testing, turnover, and a maintenance schedule. You are told when the unit is next due for cleaning instead of finding out when it stops cooling.
How it works
No surprises and no figure that moves halfway through. Every job runs the same six steps whether it is one bedroom unit or a cold storage build.
We come and look. Room dimensions, sun exposure, ceiling height, existing wiring, and where the outdoor unit can realistically go — all of it changes the answer.
A scoped quotation covering equipment, materials, and labour. You approve it before anything is ordered or opened.
We book a date that suits your operation. Commercial work can be scheduled outside trading hours so your business keeps running.
The work itself — piping, vacuuming, wiring, mounting, and charging done to spec rather than to whatever is fastest.
Temperature, pressure, and airflow checked and logged with you present. You see the readings, not just a thumbs up.
Written care instructions and a service interval, plus an optional maintenance contract if you want us tracking it instead of you.
Before you buy
The most expensive mistake in residential aircon is buying the wrong horsepower. Too small and it runs flat out and never catches up. Too big and it short-cycles, never pulls the humidity out, and leaves the room cold but clammy.
Treat this as a starting point, not an answer. West-facing rooms, high ceilings, large windows, heavy occupancy, and kitchen equipment all push the requirement up. We confirm it on site before anything is ordered.
Have us size it properly| Room area | Typical space | Rough size |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 12 sqm | Small bedroom | 0.75 HP |
| 12 – 18 sqm | Standard bedroom | 1.0 HP |
| 18 – 24 sqm | Master bedroom, small office | 1.5 HP |
| 24 – 32 sqm | Living room, clinic | 2.0 HP |
| 32 – 45 sqm | Open office, small shop | 2.5 HP |
| 45 sqm and above | Commercial floor | Site assessment |
Our work
Installations, chemical washes, and cold storage builds around Iligan. More of the day-to-day goes up on the Facebook page.
Multi-compressor rack and copper pipework serving a commercial refrigeration plant.
Industrial tube ice machine kept in service for a commercial client.
Twin-fan evaporator serviced in place, high on a cold room wall.
Chiller room holding stacked stock at temperature.
Ceiling-mounted indoor unit fitted during a building fit-out.
Floor-standing units cooling a function hall between events.
Outdoor condensers bracket-mounted along an exterior walkway.
Brazing a copper joint during a compressor replacement.
Tracing a control board fault with a multimeter before quoting parts.
Questions
The things people actually ring up and ask, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
For a home in Iligan, every three to four months. The coastal air here carries salt and the humidity keeps dust stuck to the coil, so units foul up faster than the once-a-year figure you see in manuals. Restaurants, groceries, and anywhere with grease or heavy foot traffic should be on a quarterly schedule at minimum.
Most often one of four things: a clogged filter or coil choking the airflow, low refrigerant from a leak, a failing capacitor stopping the compressor from starting, or a unit that was undersized for the room from day one. The first is something you can check yourself. The rest need a proper diagnosis — and a refrigerant top-up without finding the leak just buys you a few months.
Almost always a blocked or badly sloped drain line. Dust and biofilm build up in the pipe, water backs up in the tray, and it spills into the room instead of running outside. It is a straightforward fix, but leaving it will stain ceilings and swell drywall, so it is worth calling early.
If the unit runs several hours a day, every day, inverter pays for itself in electricity and holds a steadier temperature. If it only runs occasionally, the higher purchase price and the more expensive control board are hard to justify. Tell us the room and the usage pattern and we will give you a straight answer rather than the one with the bigger margin.
The table above is a reasonable starting point, but it is only that. A west-facing room takes the afternoon sun and needs more. High ceilings, a lot of glass, many people, or kitchen equipment all push it up. An oversized unit is not a safe bet either — it short-cycles, never dehumidifies properly, and leaves the room cold but clammy. We confirm on site.
Yes — that is a core part of the business, not a sideline. Cold storage rooms, blast freezers, display chillers, and ice machines. If you run a grocery, restaurant, or clinic and your equipment is critical to trading, ask about a maintenance contract as well as the repair.
Yes. They run at different pressures and are not interchangeable, and R22 is being phased out, so units still running it get progressively more expensive to service. We work with what your system takes and will tell you honestly when an old R22 unit has reached the point where replacing beats repairing.
Case to case. There is no standing after-hours guarantee, but urgent call-outs are considered — particularly for commercial clients with stock at risk. Ring the number on this page rather than messaging: a call gets an answer far faster than a Facebook message at 9 PM.
Get a quote
No call centre and no pressure. Send the details and you get a real answer from the people who would actually do the work.
Find us
Iligan City and the surrounding municipalities. If you are just outside this list, ask anyway — we travel for larger jobs.
Iligan City
Lanao del Norte
Industrial and commercial projects are taken on anywhere in Mindanao. Residential and smaller service calls are handled around Iligan City and Lanao del Norte.
