Furnace Maintenance & Tune-Ups in New Boston, Michigan

Temprasure runs fall furnace maintenance across New Boston from September until the first real cold, and the visit is the same whether the furnace is a new two-stage unit in a 48164 subdivision or a 1990s 80 percent furnace in a 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds house near Sibley Road. Burners, ignition, safeties, exchanger, combustion, gas pressure, airflow, and on condensing furnaces the condensate and venting. You get the readings in writing and flat-rate prices on anything we recommend, with no pressure to replace a furnace that is doing fine. Service-agreement members across Wayne County get first pick of dates.

New Boston houses and what that means for furnace maintenance

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.

Rental housing around New Boston is where deferred furnace maintenance does the most damage. A furnace in a Sibley Road rental that has not been opened in six years is running on a filter that is black, a flame sensor that is barely signaling and a burner compartment that may be a mouse nest. Temprasure handles tune-ups for landlords across Wayne County: we schedule with the tenant, do the full visit including the combustion analysis and exchanger inspection, replace the filter, and send the owner a report with readings and photos. For owners with several New Boston properties, one service agreement covers all of them with priority scheduling when a tenant calls about no heat.

Heating calls from New Boston come in two waves: the first real cold night in November and whatever stretch of January the polar vortex decides to visit. Both times we are 25 minutes away with ignitors, flame sensors, pressure switches and inducer motors on the truck. The 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds around Waltz and Middlebelt Road south of Pennsylvania mostly burn DTE Energy natural gas, and the furnaces in them are old enough that a heat exchanger inspection is part of every visit, not an upsell. Near Lower Huron Metropark's southern end and out toward Hannan Road, we also see high-efficiency furnaces whose exterior vents ice over in a storm, which looks like a dead furnace and is a ten-minute fix.

Local details we plan around in New Boston

• 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.
• River flooding in the village means we raise replacement furnaces and water heaters on pads and route condensate carefully.
• 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.