Heating and cooling in Fort Worth
Fort Worth's Table 1-H of Ordinance 26-28781, with fees effective October 1, 2026, prices a forced-air furnace including ducts and vents at $6.10 for 100,000 BTU input or less and $10.34 from there up to 400,000 BTU. Roof-top or combination units including ducts and drains run $10.34 cooling only and $20.71 heating and cooling up to and including 3 tons, then $16.46 and $29.17 over 3 up to 5 tons.
Through-the-wall A/C units are $8.46 each, any size. Those are per-unit lines, and the table doesn't show a permit-issuance or minimum fee. The city's own advice is to verify fees by logging into your Accela Citizen Access account before you pay. Development Services takes calls at 817-392-2222 and sits at New City Hall, 100 Fort Worth Trail. Fort Worth adopted the 2021 International Code Council codes effective April 1, 2022, with one exception: its permits page says the city will keep the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code in place.
Registration for contractors goes through Development Support staff, and a Mechanical Registration is on the city's list. Of Fort Worth's housing units, 24.0% were built from 1950 to 1979, and its median year built is 1994 (Census, 2020 to 2024). The table prices by BTU input and tons, so the unit's size is the number to settle before a quote.
What heating and cooling work costs near Fort Worth
Nobody's given us a quote for work in Fort Worth yet, so this page can't show a city price. The Texas page lists the estimates with what technicians earn (the Texas mean in May 2025 BLS wage data is $28.43 an hour, which is their pay, not your price) and some city permit fees. How we estimate costs.
Permits for heating and cooling work in Fort Worth
Texas cities issue the permit for replacing a furnace, air conditioner or heat pump, and each city sets its own fee; the ones cited on our Texas page all require one. TDLR licenses the air conditioning and refrigeration contractor, so ask for that license number as well as what your city's permit office needs.