Ductwork Repair in Salem Township, Michigan

Temprasure has been sealing and repairing ductwork in Salem Township for as long as we have been repairing furnaces, because the two are inseparable. In the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them houses of Seven Mile Road corridor, the returns are panned joist bays that leak at every joint and pull air from the basement; in the newer subdivisions on the Washtenaw County side of Salem Township, the branches are flex duct sagging between attic trusses with the insulation slipping off. We seal trunk joints with mastic, replace crushed and kinked flex, add returns where the system is starved, and arrange aerosol sealing when the leakage is spread through walls we cannot reach. Every item is quoted flat so you decide what is worth doing.

Salem Township houses and what that means for duct repair & sealing

Salem's houses are nearly all custom or owner-built rather than tract, and they are spread thin, so our calls here are long drives between very different problems. The 1850s–1920s farmhouses in and around the village have Michigan basements, rough stone walls and ductwork added in the 1960s or later, often with a furnace that is serving an addition it was never sized for. The 1970s–90s ranches and split-levels along Currie, Tower and Angle Roads sit on crawlspaces or walkout basements and frequently started life on fuel oil or propane. The 1995–2015 estate homes near Napier Road and along North Territorial are large two-stories with two or more furnaces, zoned systems and finished walkouts, commonly on propane with a buried tank. Many properties have a heated barn, workshop or pole building with its own unit heater. Older homes with converted oil furnaces and unlined chimneys are the most frequent safety finding we make here.

The subdivisions built around Salem Township in the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them have the opposite duct problem. A metal trunk in the basement serves the first floor fine, but the second floor is fed by flex duct stapled between the attic trusses, often fifteen or twenty feet of it with three sagging bends to reach the far bedroom, with the insulation slid off the elbows. In July that run delivers air that has been heated by a 130-degree attic; in January it delivers air that has been chilled on the way. Combined with a single upstairs return in the hall, that is why the second floor in 48175 is never comfortable. Our repair in these Salem Township homes is to replace the worst flex with shorter, straighter runs, support and insulate the rest, seal where the branches leave the trunk and add a return so the upstairs can actually breathe.

Salem Township has about 6,500, in the northeast corner of Washtenaw County residents and a housing stock, mostly 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them, that has been through more HVAC changes than its ductwork has. When a 1990s furnace was replaced with a high-efficiency unit, or central air was added to a house near the Salem-Plymouth township line along Napier Road that never had it, the ducts usually stayed the same. We repair and replace ductwork throughout Salem Township, from the older blocks around Six Mile Road corridor to the newer streets near the village of Salem, sealing with mastic rather than tape and sizing replacements to the equipment that is actually installed.

Local details we plan around in Salem Township

• Every home is on a private well, and Salem's well water is hard and often high in iron and sulfur, which attacks water heater anodes and leaves scale on humidifier pads.
• Mechanical permits go through Washtenaw County, and the county inspector's northern rotation can add a few days to an inspection schedule.
• Older farmhouses and 1970s ranches that were converted from fuel oil often still have the original oil chimney, and lining it is a standard part of any gas furnace replacement.
• Salem is higher and more rolling than the townships along the Huron, and it is exposed to wind from every direction across open fields, with winter gusts that make the northwest corner of any house the cold corner. Snowfall runs slightly heavier here than in Ypsilanti because of the elevation and the distance from the river valley. Woodlots and the Johnson Creek drain hold summer humidity in the low spots, while the higher ground stays drier.