Furnace Maintenance & Tune-Ups in Augusta Township, Michigan

Nobody in Augusta Township wants to spend a January night at 52 degrees waiting on a parts run, and a fall tune-up from Temprasure is the cheapest way to avoid it. We find the flame sensor that would have failed in February, the ignitor with the hairline crack, the condensate trap on the 96 percent furnace near Paint Creek that would have frozen on the first minus-10 night. Augusta Township, MI is well inside our 20-mile radius, DTE Energy customers there get the same flat rate as our neighbors in Ypsilanti, and service-agreement members get first choice of fall dates.

Augusta Township houses and what that means for furnace maintenance

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.

Oversizing shows up on Augusta Township tune-ups as wear. The 1960s–90s rural ranches and newer acreage builds on former farmland common here were often fitted with furnaces 30 to 50 percent larger than the house needs, and a furnace that short cycles all winter burns through ignitors, stresses the exchanger and never gets the temperature rise it was designed for. We record temperature rise and cycle behavior on every Augusta Township, MI maintenance visit, and where a blower speed adjustment can lengthen the cycles we make it. We will also tell you plainly if the furnace is simply too big for the house, because that changes the replacement conversation whenever it comes, and it changes how much life you should expect from the current one.

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 Talladay Road 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.
• 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.
• Septic systems serve nearly every home, and condensate from a high-efficiency furnace should be neutralized or routed away from the septic line.
• 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.