Emergency Heating Repair in Augusta Township, Michigan

Temprasure's 24-hour heating repair covers every Augusta Township address, and the rules do not change after dark. The dispatch fee covers the trip and diagnosis and is credited to the repair. The repair is one flat number you approve first. There is no night, weekend or holiday rate. If you smell gas, leave and call DTE Energy or 911 before us. If a CO alarm sounds, get out and call 911 first. For everything else, from a dead furnace in the Sumpter Township line to an iced heat pump near Lincoln Consolidated Schools campus, call us and we are on our way.

Augusta Township houses and what that means for emergency heating

Augusta's housing is a long timeline laid out along the roads. The 1860s–1920s farmhouses have Michigan basements, two or three additions and forced-air systems that were added long after the house was built, usually with ductwork that never reached the upstairs properly. The 1960s–80s ranches and split-levels that make up the biggest share of the township sit on crawlspaces or shallow basements, with furnaces in hallway closets or utility rooms and ductwork under the floor that has collected decades of moisture and rodent traffic. Newer acreage homes and the subdivisions off Whittaker and Bemis Roads are 1995–2015 colonials and ranches on full poured basements with 80 or 90 percent furnaces, many on propane, and condensers sized by the builder's rule of thumb rather than a load calculation. Manufactured homes with package units or small furnaces are common on the back roads. A good number of properties also have a pole barn or shop with a hanging heater we end up servicing.

Power outages are the other emergency generator in Augusta Township. An ice storm takes down lines, DTE Energy restores power with a surge, and the furnace control board in a 1960s–90s rural ranches and newer acreage builds on former farmland basement near the Sumpter Township line does not survive it. Or the power blinks three times in an hour and the furnace locks out with a code nobody can read. We get a wave of these calls after every winter outage in Washtenaw County. We read the code, test the board and transformer, replace what actually failed, and for homes that lose power often we talk about a surge protector at the furnace, which costs a fraction of a second board.

In Augusta Township the furnace is the one appliance nobody thinks about until it fails at 11 p.m. with the temperature falling through the teens. That is when the phone rings, and that is when being 9 miles away matters. We know the 1960s–90s rural ranches and newer acreage builds on former farmland along Lincoln Schools campus area and the basements near Lincoln High School, we carry parts for every brand that went into Washtenaw County homes, and we charge the same flat rate at midnight that we charge at noon. Augusta Township has about 7,500, spread across the southeast corner of Washtenaw County people and a lot of twenty-year-old furnaces; we would rather tell you yours has five winters left than sell you a new one it does not need.

Local details we plan around in Augusta Township

• DTE gas mains follow Whittaker Road, Willis Road and a few others, but a large share of the township's homes run on propane, and we size and set up equipment accordingly.
• Septic systems serve nearly every home, and condensate from a high-efficiency furnace should be neutralized or routed away from the septic line.
• High water tables along Stony Creek and Paint Creek flood crawlspaces, and we find rusted-through duct trunks and water-damaged furnaces in those areas after wet springs.
• Augusta is low, flat and open, and the land along Stony Creek and Paint Creek holds water well into spring, so basements and crawlspaces in the township's middle run damp for months. Winter wind crosses the fields with nothing in the way, and the exposed north and west sides of farmhouses and acreage homes carry heavier heating loads than their square footage would suggest. Summer humidity is high across the creek bottoms, and shade is scarce outside the older farmsteads with their windbreaks.