Furnace Installation & Replacement in New Boston, Michigan

Before we quote a new furnace for a New Boston home, we look at the old one. That sounds obvious, but a lot of New Boston, MI homeowners have been handed replacement quotes by companies that never put a camera in the heat exchanger. Temprasure inspects first, and if the furnace in your 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds house near Middlebelt Road south of Pennsylvania has years left, we say so. When it does not, we size the new one with a Manual J, walk you through 80 versus 96 percent for your specific venting and water heater situation, and install it ourselves with the Wayne County permit included. Estimates are free and we are about 25 minutes away.

New Boston houses and what that means for furnace installation

New Boston and Huron Township give us a wide spread of housing in a small area. The village core along Huron River Drive and the streets behind it has 1900s to 1930s frame houses with Michigan basements or crawlspaces, retrofitted ductwork and a furnace that was replaced sometime in the 90s. Waltz is similar but older on average. The 1960s and 70s ranches and subdivisions off Middlebelt, Sibley and Hannan Roads are on block basements or crawlspaces, with single-return furnaces and add-on central air from the 80s. Out on the section roads, 1990s to 2010s acreage builds are large colonials and ranches on poured basements with two-stage furnaces, sometimes a second attic system, and a pole barn with its own heater. Water is a mix of municipal supply in the village and wells outside it, and the well water is hard. Propane is the fuel on a fair number of rural parcels, which changes the furnace and water heater options.

Ductwork sets the ceiling on what a new furnace can do in New Boston. A variable-speed furnace with a modern ECM blower is only as good as the trunk lines and returns it connects to, and the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds in 48164 frequently have a single undersized return in the hallway and supply runs that were never balanced. On a replacement we measure static pressure with the old furnace running, and if it is high we tell you what the ductwork needs, whether that is an added return, a sealed trunk or a few resized branches. Sometimes the duct fix is a small add-on; sometimes it is the difference between a furnace that works and one that trips its limit switch all winter.

New Boston winters are long enough that a furnace runs more hours in a year here than an air conditioner runs in five. We maintain and repair the gas furnaces in the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds near Lower Huron Metropark's southern end and the Huron Township Hall on Huron River Drive, the hot-water boilers in the older houses around the Huron River Drive corridor, and the furnaces in newer subdivisions out toward Huron Estates where builder-grade equipment hits its first real failures around year ten. The shop is 15 miles away, the truck carries the parts that fail, and a heating call in New Boston ends with heat on the first visit far more often than not.

Local details we plan around in New Boston

• Huron Township requires mechanical permits and inspections for furnace, AC and water heater replacements, and the inspectors are familiar with the propane installations common in the rural half.
• Propane furnaces and water heaters on the rural parcels need conversion kits and different orifices, and we carry what is needed for both propane and natural gas.
• Well water across the township outside the village is hard and often high in iron, which shortens water heater life and scales humidifier pads quickly.
• The Huron River and the three metroparks keep New Boston humid and foggy, and the low ground near the river floods in spring, which affects basements and crawlspaces in the village. The open farmland on the west side of the township takes winter wind across the fields with no shelter, and the township runs a touch colder on clear nights than the suburbs to the north. Tree cover in the parks and along the river gives shade but drops debris into condensers all fall.