Heating Repair in Ypsilanti and Southeast Michigan

Heating in Southeast Michigan is not one kind of equipment. Most homes in Washtenaw and western Wayne County run a forced-air gas furnace, but the pre-war two-stories in the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor cores often still heat with a hot-water boiler and cast-iron radiators, a growing number of homes have a heat pump paired with a furnace, and rural pockets of Augusta, York and Sumpter townships run on propane. Temprasure repairs all of it. Our trucks carry parts for gas furnaces, circulators, zone valves, aquastats and expansion tanks for boilers, and the defrost boards, reversing valves and contactors that fail on heat pumps. When you call with no heat, we ask what you have and we show up ready for it.

Furnace repairs are the bulk of our winter. Flame sensors that need cleaning, hot-surface ignitors that cracked, inducer motors that gave up, pressure switches tripped by a frozen condensate line, control boards taken out by a power surge, blower capacitors that drifted out of spec. We read the diagnostic code, test with a meter and a manometer, inspect the heat exchanger on every call, and quote the repair as one flat number before the work starts. We fix the problem, not a list of parts, and we tell you if the furnace is old enough that a repair is a short-term patch.

Boiler repairs are a smaller but important part of what we do, because the companies that only install furnaces tend to walk away from a 1920s house with radiators. A hot-water boiler is a different system: a circulator pump that moves water, an aquastat that controls the burner, an expansion tank that absorbs pressure, a pressure-reducing valve on the fill, zone valves or multiple circulators on larger systems, and radiators or baseboard that need air bled out of them every fall. When a boiler stops heating, it is usually a failed circulator, a stuck zone valve, a waterlogged expansion tank letting the relief valve weep, a bad aquastat, or air trapped in an upstairs radiator. We diagnose and repair all of those, we replace relief valves and auto-vents, and we will tell you honestly when an old cast-iron boiler has reached the end.

Heat pumps bring their own winter failures. A heat pump heating a house at 20 degrees is running a refrigeration cycle in reverse, and it depends on a defrost cycle to clear the outdoor coil of frost. When the defrost board, the defrost sensor or the reversing valve fails, the outdoor unit turns into a block of ice and the house falls back on electric strip heat or the gas furnace, which shows up as a DTE bill that doubled. We repair those components, and we check that a dual-fuel system is switching to the furnace at the right outdoor temperature so you are not paying to run a heat pump below the point where it makes sense.

Every heating repair follows the same rules. A flat dispatch fee covers the trip and the diagnosis and is credited toward the repair. Nights, weekends and holidays are the same rate. If you smell gas, leave the house and call DTE or 911 before you call us. If a CO alarm sounds, get out, call 911, and then call us. And if another company has told you that your furnace or boiler needs replacing, we are glad to be the second opinion, because more than a few of those have turned out to need a sensor and a cleaning.