Tenant vs landlord: who pays for AC maintenance in the UAE?

Air Conditioning Cleaning UAE technical team · 4 min read

Practical split of AC costs in UAE rentals. Contracts, fair wear, negligence, handover photos. Not legal advice.

Tip: send a photo of the indoor and outdoor unit on WhatsApp before we quote extras.

Not legal advice

Your tenancy contract wins. Many Dubai contracts put fair wear on the landlord and misuse on the tenant. Filters ignored for a year look like misuse. A cassette pump that dies after five summers looks like plant.

Handover

Photograph FCU coils, pans, and the outdoor on day one. A smell on day 30 is harder to argue without photos. Tenants: move-in cleaning. Landlords: portfolio AMC.

Gas

A leaky coil is usually plant. A disconnected pipe after the tenant installed a TV wall might not be. We will describe what we see; we will not play lawyer.

Warning: do not poke live terminals or recover refrigerant yourself. Isolation first, then WhatsApp.

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