Furnace Installation & Replacement in Romulus, Michigan

Before we quote a new furnace for a Romulus home, we look at the old one. That sounds obvious, but a lot of Romulus, 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 1940s–70s ranches and bungalows built around the airport house near Downtown Romulus near Goddard and Wayne Road 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 22 minutes away.

Romulus houses and what that means for furnace installation

Romulus homes are small, old and spread out, which makes for a specific kind of HVAC work. The 1940s and 50s houses along Wick, Ecorse and Beverly Roads are frame bungalows and ranches on crawlspaces or shallow block basements, many of them originally heated with oil or coal and converted to gas forced air sometime in the 60s or 70s. The 1960s and 70s ranches on the south side near Pennsylvania and Eureka Roads have slightly larger systems but the same tight utility closets and single-return duct layouts. A lot of these houses have had additions, enclosed porches and garages converted into rooms, and the furnace was rarely resized. Central air was almost never original, so condensers are add-ons from the 80s through the 2000s on circuits that were not planned for them. We find a lot of furnaces well past 25 years here, patched repeatedly, and a lot of houses where honest repair makes more sense than replacement.

Gas service and electrical both get checked on a Romulus furnace replacement. Older homes near Downtown Romulus near Goddard and Wayne Road occasionally have a gas line that was sized for a furnace and a range in the 1950s and has since picked up a water heater, a dryer and a grill, and a new furnace at the end of that run can be starved on a cold night when everything fires at once. On the electrical side, a modern furnace with an ECM blower wants a clean dedicated circuit, and we see shared circuits and ungrounded outlets at the furnace in Romulus, MI basements more often than you would expect. Both get evaluated on the estimate and quoted up front if they need correction.

In Romulus 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 13 miles away matters. We know the 1940s–70s ranches and bungalows built around the airport along Merriman Road corridor and the basements near Romulus Historical Park, we carry parts for every brand that went into Wayne County homes, and we charge the same flat rate at midnight that we charge at noon. Romulus has about 25,000, with Detroit Metro Airport taking up a third of the city's land 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 Romulus

• Jet-fuel particulates and runway dust load up furnace filters and condenser coils faster near the airport than elsewhere in our radius.
• Romulus water is from the Detroit system and is relatively soft, so water heater sediment is a smaller issue than the age of the tanks themselves.
• Investor-owned rentals are common here, and we do a steady business in pre-purchase HVAC inspections and landlord repairs.
• Romulus is as flat as it gets in Wayne County, which is why the airport is here. The open runways and the cleared land around them let wind sweep across the neighborhoods in winter, and the acres of pavement and jet exhaust make summer afternoons a few degrees hotter than Belleville or Van Buren. Drainage is poor on the clay soil, so basements and crawlspaces near the Lower Rouge and the airport's drainage ditches stay damp well into summer.