Heating and cooling in Richardson
The temporary City Hall Annex at 2360 Campbell Creek Blvd., Suite 550, Richardson, TX 75082, is where Richardson Building Inspection works for now. Reach it at 972-744-4180 or AskRichardsonBuildingInspection@cor.gov, Monday to Friday, 8 to 5. Richardson's Building Inspection pages state that the city has adopted the 2021 International Codes plus the 2020 National Electric Code, and its Adopted Codes page carries the local amendments. Richardson's Building Inspection, Residential and Contractor Registration pages don't print dollar amounts or link to a fee schedule, which leaves the office as the only source for a mechanical permit amount.
Contractors email registration applications to Permits@cor.gov, and online permits are available for specific project types. Texas splits air conditioning contractors into two classes: Class A work can be on a unit of any size, while Class B work is limited to cooling systems of 25 tons and under and heating systems of 1.5 million BTUs/hour and under. TDLR's license search has separate lists for Air Conditioning Contractors and A/C Technicians, and it also offers a lookup by license number.
In Richardson, 43.4% of housing units date to 1950 through 1979; Richardson's median year built is 1986 (Census, 2020 to 2024). TDLR's lookup by license number is where a company's number gets checked.
What heating and cooling work costs near Richardson
Nobody's given us a quote for work in Richardson 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 Richardson
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.
Heating and cooling jobs in Richardson
Sources for Richardson
- Building Inspection, City of Richardson Read Oct 23, 2026.
- Contractor Registration, City of Richardson Read Oct 23, 2026.
- TDLR: Apply for a Contractor License Read Oct 23, 2026.
- TDLR: License Search Read Oct 23, 2026.
- ACS 5-year B25035 Median Year Structure Built
- ACS 5-year B25034 Year Structure Built