Your Electricity Bill and Your AC in a Riyadh Summer
Air conditioning is the largest part of a Riyadh summer bill. What genuinely raises consumption, and which well-known savings tips have little or no effect.
For Businesses and Projects
Half our work does not happen in houses. We work with building owners, contractors, facilities managers, restaurants, warehouses, pharmacies, mosques and schools — installation from shell stage, and scheduled maintenance contracts once running. A licensed establishment working in Riyadh since 1985, issuing compliant tax invoices.
The difference between a business and a home is not the size of the equipment — it is the cost of it stopping. A restaurant cold room down for one night costs more than a full year of scheduled servicing, and a floor of offices without cooling means trading interrupted rather than mild discomfort. So we work to a written scope, on scheduled visits, with documented reports — not on emergency call-outs.
The premises we work in
Towers and residential compounds
Central systems, chillers and floor units, balancing distribution between floors and wings, and servicing pump rooms and pipework.
Offices and headquarters
Ducted and concealed systems and air handling units. We schedule servicing outside working hours where we can, so nothing stops.
Restaurants and cafés
Dining area cooling, cold and freezer rooms, and display chillers. Refrigeration gets priority, because downtime means stock lost immediately.
Warehouses and distribution
Large cold and freezer rooms, ventilation systems, and temperature alarms with logging that protect stock from a silent overnight failure.
Pharmacies and healthcare
Tighter temperature stability with documented logging — which these premises are expected to hold, not merely an operational preference.
Mosques and schools
Intermittent loads with sharp, predictable usage peaks, which need a different design and servicing rhythm from continuous running.
Groceries and shops
Display chillers and commercial refrigeration, plus doors, seals and air curtains — the parts that fail first under heavy daily use.
Projects under construction
Drawing review, route coordination with the other trades, first fix, then installation, testing and documented handover.
What a maintenance contract should contain
Many contracts in this market are one line: "two visits a year". That tells you nothing about what happens on the visit. Ask any AC contractor for these items before signing — us or anyone else.
- An inventory of covered equipment by count, type and location, not a general description.
- The visit line by line: filters, coil washing, drainage, pressure and current measurement, electrical checks, ductwork where present.
- The number and timing of visits per year, with a pre-summer visit fixed for March or April.
- What is explicitly out of scope: major parts, and faults arising from misuse or another party’s work.
- Emergency response time for covered premises.
- A report after each visit documenting what was checked, what was found, and what is recommended.
- Billing arrangements, and compliant tax invoices.
New projects — from shell to handover
In new buildings the decisions that matter most are taken before any equipment is installed: copper pipe routes inside walls, outdoor unit positions and their ventilation, drainage routes and their fall, duct sizing and insulation, and electrical supply points. Correcting any of them after finishing is very expensive; getting them right at shell stage is close to free. We come in at that stage with the contractor or the owner: reviewing drawings, coordinating routes with the other trades, running first fix, then installing, commissioning, testing and handing over with documentation of what was built.
How to start
Call us and arrange a survey. We come to site, inventory the existing equipment or review the drawings on new projects, and set out a written scope of work. We ask for no commitment before that.
The services businesses ask for
Annual Maintenance Contracts
Scheduled preventive maintenance keeps you out of a July breakdown. And at peak season, contract customers are served first.
Details →Central AC & Ducted
One room cold and another hot in the same house? The problem is usually air distribution, not the capacity of the unit.
Details →Cold Rooms & Commercial Refrigeration
In a cold room, every hour of downtime is spoiled stock. We run emergency scheduling for these cases.
Details →Fridge & Freezer Repair
We are a refrigeration and air conditioning establishment — refrigeration is half our name. Fridges, freezers and display chillers have been core work since the beginning.
Details →AC Installation
Bad installation kills a new air conditioner within two years. We do it properly: correctly sized copper, full vacuum evacuation, and drain fall set right.
Details →Our legal details
| Legal name | Kafi Jaber Hawshan Al-Dhafiri Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Est. |
|---|---|
| Licence number | 461019370314 |
| Authority | Riyadh Region Municipality — Balady |
| Licensed activity | Installation, maintenance and repair of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems |
| Address | Prince Majed bin Abdulaziz Street, Al Rayyan District, Riyadh 14212 |
| National Address | 3875 Prince Majed bin Abdulaziz Street, Al Rayyan District, Riyadh 14212 — 8000 |
| Opening hours | Saturday – Thursday: 8am – 11pm · Friday: 2pm – 11pm |
| Mobile | 0571839848 |
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Maintenance Contracts and Building Projects
What an AC maintenance contract should contain, and how we work on building projects from shell stage to handover. For offices, towers, mosques, schools, restaurants and warehouses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions about this service
Do you work with contractors from shell stage?
Yes, and it is the best stage to involve us. Pipe routes, outdoor unit positions and ventilation, drainage falls and duct sizing all cost close to nothing to get right at shell stage and a great deal to correct after finishing. We review drawings, coordinate routes, run first fix, then install, test and hand over with documentation.
What is your response time for commercial premises?
Premises under a scheduled contract have priority, and critical cases such as cold rooms in restaurants and pharmacies are moved ahead. We set the response time out in writing in the scope of work before signing, rather than promising something we cannot keep.
Do you issue compliant tax invoices?
Yes. We work under Riyadh Region Municipality commercial activity licence number 461019370314 for the installation and maintenance of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems, and we issue compliant tax invoices — which is what companies, schools, mosques and institutions need for supplier onboarding.
Do you cover premises across all of Riyadh?
Yes. Our shop is in Al Rayyan but our teams work across the whole city of Riyadh — north, south, east, west and centre, 164 districts. We work on towers, compounds, offices, restaurants, warehouses, pharmacies, mosques and schools throughout the city.
Do you handle chillers and chilled water systems?
Yes, and they are common in towers and larger compounds. Servicing them differs from direct expansion systems, particularly around pumps, pipework, water treatment and balancing distribution between floors. We set the scope after a site survey.
We have an existing contract with someone else and want it reviewed. Do you do that?
Yes. We come and inventory the equipment, check its actual condition, compare that against what your current contract specifies, and give you a report on what is genuinely covered and what is being skipped. The decision after that is yours, and we ask for no commitment in exchange for the survey.
What is the difference between preventive maintenance and calling on failure?
Preventive means scheduled visits to a fixed scope that stop the fault before it happens and move the work to March instead of July. Calling on failure means paying the cost of downtime on top of the cost of repair, and at the height of summer every team in the city is committed. On commercial premises the difference is not the price of the part — it is the hours lost.
Will you work on systems someone else installed?
Yes, and it is most of what comes to us. We inventory what is there, inspect it, and tell you its real condition — including previous installation errors where we find them, because those are frequently the reason for high consumption or repeat faults that have nothing to do with the age of the equipment.
Arrange a survey for your premises
We come to site, inventory the equipment or review the drawings, and set out a written scope of work. No commitment before that.