HVAC Installation & Replacement in Salem Township, Michigan

The subdivisions and older blocks of Salem Township are full of systems that went in all at once and are reaching the end all at once. Builder-grade furnaces and condensers installed in the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them around Currie Road area tend to fail within a few years of each other, which is why HVAC installation in Salem Township is a steady part of our work. What we do differently than the larger outfits in Washtenaw County is simple: no sales team, no same-day-only pricing, a load calculation instead of a nameplate match, and the owner on the install. A new system in 48175 from Temprasure is sized for the house, permitted, inspected and commissioned, and it comes with a free estimate that you can sit on as long as you want.

Salem Township houses and what that means for hvac installation

Salem's houses are nearly all custom or owner-built rather than tract, and they are spread thin, so our calls here are long drives between very different problems. The 1850s–1920s farmhouses in and around the village have Michigan basements, rough stone walls and ductwork added in the 1960s or later, often with a furnace that is serving an addition it was never sized for. The 1970s–90s ranches and split-levels along Currie, Tower and Angle Roads sit on crawlspaces or walkout basements and frequently started life on fuel oil or propane. The 1995–2015 estate homes near Napier Road and along North Territorial are large two-stories with two or more furnaces, zoned systems and finished walkouts, commonly on propane with a buried tank. Many properties have a heated barn, workshop or pole building with its own unit heater. Older homes with converted oil furnaces and unlined chimneys are the most frequent safety finding we make here.

Venting is the second thing we look at hard in Salem Township. A high-efficiency condensing furnace vents through the side wall in PVC, which frees up the masonry chimney that an older 80% furnace shared with the water heater. In the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them common near the Johnson Creek drain, that leaves a 40-gallon atmospheric water heater alone on a chimney that is now too large for it, and the flue gases can condense and eat the liner. We address that on the estimate, either with a chimney liner sized for the water heater or by talking through a power-vent water heater at the same time. Salem Township homes on DTE Energy gas also get the gas line pressure-tested and the drip leg and shutoff brought up to current code as part of the install.

With about 6,500, in the northeast corner of Washtenaw County residents and housing that runs from the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them around Six Mile Road corridor to the newer streets near Brookville Road area, Salem Township keeps us busy year-round. The equipment is on DTE Energy for heat and DTE Energy for cooling, the basements near Salem Hills Golf Club are prone to the same moisture issues as the rest of Washtenaw County, and the ductwork in a lot of these houses was never sized for the air conditioner that was bolted on later. We are 14 miles away, we service every brand, and we quote a flat rate before we start.

Local details we plan around in Salem Township

• Every home is on a private well, and Salem's well water is hard and often high in iron and sulfur, which attacks water heater anodes and leaves scale on humidifier pads.
• Mechanical permits go through Washtenaw County, and the county inspector's northern rotation can add a few days to an inspection schedule.
• DTE gas reaches a few corridors near the village and the Plymouth border, but propane is the dominant fuel across the township and many homes have large buried tanks.
• Salem is higher and more rolling than the townships along the Huron, and it is exposed to wind from every direction across open fields, with winter gusts that make the northwest corner of any house the cold corner. Snowfall runs slightly heavier here than in Ypsilanti because of the elevation and the distance from the river valley. Woodlots and the Johnson Creek drain hold summer humidity in the low spots, while the higher ground stays drier.