Emergency Heating Repair in Lodi Township, Michigan

Temprasure's 24-hour heating repair covers every Lodi 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 Lodi Center at Pleasant Lake and Ann Arbor-Saline to an iced heat pump near Travis Pointe Country Club, call us and we are on our way.

Lodi Township houses and what that means for emergency heating

Lodi homes almost all have one thing in common: they are on their own well and septic, and a good number of them are on propane. The Travis Pointe area is 1980s–2000s large customs with multiple furnaces, finished walkouts and long duct runs that were rarely balanced. Scattered along Pleasant Lake, Parker and Wagner Roads are 1970s–90s ranches and split-levels on crawlspaces or partial basements, often with a 1990s furnace that is on its last heat exchanger and a condenser that still runs R-22. The 1800s–1920s farmhouses that survive have Michigan basements with dirt or rough concrete floors, additions off the back and a furnace that is doing the work of two. Along the Textile Road border, 1998–2010 subdivision colonials on poured basements carry builder-grade 80 percent furnaces and single-stage air conditioners now hitting twenty years. Barns, workshops and pole buildings with their own heaters are a regular part of the conversation out here.

The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland that make up most of Lodi Township were built with plumbing in exterior walls and basements that are unheated once the furnace stops, and that is what turns a no-heat night into a burst-pipe morning. A Lodi Township, MI house on a single-digit night can drop from 68 to the mid-40s in six to ten hours, and the supply lines under a kitchen sink on a north wall near Lodi Center at Pleasant Lake and Ann Arbor-Saline freeze not long after. When we triage emergency calls from Lodi Township, we ask how cold the house is and how fast it is falling, and we tell you to open cabinet doors, drip the faucets and close off rooms while we drive. Then we fix the furnace, which on a polar vortex night is usually an ignitor, a sensor or a frozen condensate line.

We run a lot of winter miles in Lodi Township, and most of them end in a basement under one of the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland that make up its streets near Wagner Road south of Scio Church, Textile Road corridor and Ann Arbor-Saline Road corridor. DTE Energy service reaches nearly every home here, so the equipment is familiar: 80 percent and 90-plus percent gas furnaces, a few boilers near the Lodi Township cemetery at Lodi Center, and the occasional propane furnace at the rural edge. What differs house to house is the ductwork and the wiring, and that is where a careful technician earns the dispatch fee. We arrive from Ypsilanti in about 22 minutes, any hour, at the same flat rate.

Local details we plan around in Lodi Township

• DTE gas reaches the Travis Pointe area and the subdivisions near Textile Road, but many roads in the middle and west of the township have no gas main, so propane furnaces and water heaters are routine.
• Power outages are frequent on the long rural lines, so we see a lot of furnaces wired for generator backup and a lot that should be.
• Mechanical permits for Lodi addresses go through Washtenaw County's building department, and the county expects permits on furnace and condenser replacements even on rural parcels.
• Lodi is flat, open and largely treeless outside the yards themselves, and it takes winter wind straight off the fields from the west and southwest, which makes infiltration a bigger factor in heating loads than it is in the shaded neighborhoods of Ann Arbor. Summer sun on a west-facing wall with no canopy pushes condensers hard. The Saline River headwaters and the low ground near Saline-Waterworks Road hold some humidity, but most of the township drains well.