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AAA Heating & Air Columbia · Lexington · West Columbia

Standby generators

Power that does not
wait to be started.

A standby generator senses the outage, starts itself, and carries the house until the utility comes back. Nobody has to go outside in a thunderstorm with a fuel can.

Generac 5-year limited warranty · installed and serviced by our own electrical division

What the price actually covers

Generator quotes are where surprise line items live, so here is what our published price includes: the generator, a 200-amp automatic transfer switch, the smart management module, a wet cell battery, fifty feet of main service wire, fifteen feet of gas piping, the ground pad, and the full installation. Natural gas or propane, your choice.

What sits outside it is the honest exception — a gas meter your utility has to upsize, a trench longer than fifty feet, or a permit fee set by your county. Those are named before we start, not discovered afterwards.

The installation is done by our own licensed electrical division. There is no third party to coordinate and one company answers for the whole job.

Worth having if

  • Someone in the house depends on powered medical equipment
  • You are on a well — no power means no water
  • You work from home and cannot lose the connection
  • Storm outages here run to days, not hours
  • A freezer or a fridge full of food is at stake
  • A sump pump has to keep running in heavy rain
  • The street loses power more than most
  • You would rather not run extension cords in the rain
Any of these? Book a technician

Step by step

How the install goes

  1. Size it

    What has to stay on decides the kilowatts — whole house, or the essentials on a managed load. Guessing high costs money and guessing low costs you the thing you bought it for.

  2. Site it

    Placement has to satisfy clearance from windows and openings, gas supply, and the noise it makes at the neighbour's fence. We walk it with you.

  3. Permit and gas

    We pull the permit and coordinate with the gas utility. If the meter needs upsizing, you hear it here rather than on install day.

  4. Install

    Pad set, unit landed, transfer switch tied into the panel, gas run and pressure tested, and the whole thing inspected.

  5. Commission

    Live outage test, exercise schedule set, Mobile Link connected to your phone, and the maintenance interval explained.

True Transparency Pricing

Installed prices

Every air-cooled Generac we fit, with the full install package in the price. Liquid-cooled units for larger homes are quoted in person.

Air-cooled standby

  • Generac 10kW standby generator

    Model G007145

    200-amp transfer switch, smart management module, wet cell battery, 50 ft of service wire, 15 ft of gas pipe, ground pad, full install. Natural gas or propane.

    $12,999.00

    installed

  • Generac 14kW standby generator

    Model G007223

    Everything in the 10kW package, sized for a larger house.

    $13,799.00

    installed

  • Generac 18kW standby generator

    Model G007226

    $14,599.00

    installed

  • Generac 22kW standby generator

    Model G007042

    The size most whole-home installs land on.

    $15,199.00

    installed

  • Generac 24kW standby generator

    Model G007209

    $15,499.00

    installed

  • Generac 26kW standby generator

    Model G007290

    The largest air-cooled unit Generac builds.

    $16,799.00

    installed

Prices include professional installation. Financing is available on all of it, and nobody gets turned down.

Not sure what size you need?

Tell us what has to stay on — the whole house, or the well, the fridge, a medical device and a few outlets — and we will tell you the kilowatts and the price.

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