Swamp Cooler Repair & Service in Arvada, CO

The fan half works; the water half doesn't. Check whether the pads are wet — if they're dry, the pump, float, supply line, or distribution spider has quit, and each is a quick, affordable fix. If they're wet but cooling is weak, the pads themselves are likely mineral-caked past breathing. Hard Denver water causes both. Either way it's usually one visit from cold air again.

In this climate, emphatically yes. Water left in the supply line freezes at the first hard snap, splits the line, and announces itself as a leak — or a geyser — at spring startup. Shutdown means draining the reservoir and line, drying things out, dampering the duct so you're not heating the sky all winter, and covering the unit. It's a modest fall visit that prevents the most common cooler repair I do.

Aspen pads: every season, ideally at startup — our mineral-heavy water plasters them within a summer. Rigid media lasts several seasons with an annual cleaning. If your cooler smells swampy, cools weakly, or whitens with scale streaks, the pads are talking. Fresh media at startup is the single cheapest performance upgrade an evaporative cooler can get.

Yes, and startup is the visit worth booking — pads, belt, float, bearings and a leak check together, before the first hot week rather than during it. Arvada and Lakewood have a lot of these still running, and they nearly all need the same handful of parts. Booking early in the season means you're not waiting behind everyone whose cooler failed on the same afternoon.