r/HVAC

Updated Aug 26

A subreddit for Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning Technicians. If you are not a member of the trade, please post in r/hvacadvice.

Members

242,710

243K

Online now

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Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

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Promo tolerance

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Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Aug 26 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Aug 26 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/HVAC — frequently asked

How many members does r/HVAC have?

r/HVAC has 242,710 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 26. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/HVAC growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/HVAC yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 26; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/HVAC?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/HVAC yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/HVAC?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/HVAC yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/HVAC for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/HVAC into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/HVAC's stats?

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r/HVAC: 243K members — stats & growth (Aug 2026)