HVAC Maintenance in Lodi Township, Michigan

Maintenance is the service most Lodi Township homeowners skip and the one that would save them the most. A furnace in a 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland house near Saline-Waterworks Road area that has been tuned every fall runs quieter, uses less DTE Energy gas and goes two decades without a midwinter failure; one that has never been opened fails the first week of January and gets replaced in a panic. Temprasure does HVAC maintenance in Lodi Township with instruments, a combustion analyzer and a written report, and the owner does the visit himself. Lodi Township is about 22 minutes from our shop, so a fall furnace tune-up or a spring AC visit is an easy appointment to keep, and both are priced flat with no dispatch fee.

Lodi Township houses and what that means for hvac maintenance

Lodi homes almost all have one thing in common: they are on their own well and septic, and a good number of them are on propane. The Travis Pointe area is 1980s–2000s large customs with multiple furnaces, finished walkouts and long duct runs that were rarely balanced. Scattered along Pleasant Lake, Parker and Wagner Roads are 1970s–90s ranches and split-levels on crawlspaces or partial basements, often with a 1990s furnace that is on its last heat exchanger and a condenser that still runs R-22. The 1800s–1920s farmhouses that survive have Michigan basements with dirt or rough concrete floors, additions off the back and a furnace that is doing the work of two. Along the Textile Road border, 1998–2010 subdivision colonials on poured basements carry builder-grade 80 percent furnaces and single-stage air conditioners now hitting twenty years. Barns, workshops and pole buildings with their own heaters are a regular part of the conversation out here.

Combustion safety is the part of Lodi Township maintenance we take most seriously, and the housing explains why. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland around Saline-Waterworks Road area almost all have gas furnaces in basements that stay damp from a sump pit or a Michigan-basement foundation, and moisture rusts a heat exchanger from the outside while the furnace looks fine from the front. On every Lodi Township furnace tune-up we inspect the exchanger with a light and mirror, run the combustion analyzer, and read carbon monoxide at the registers with the blower running. A furnace that passes gets a report that says so. A furnace that does not gets shut down with the evidence shown to you, and we have made that call in Washtenaw County basements more than once without ever being wrong about it.

Our trucks are in Lodi Township most weeks, because Washtenaw County is where a large share of our work is and 48176 is a short run from Ypsilanti. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland that line the streets near Travis Pointe and the Lodi Township cemetery at Lodi Center have usually been through two or three furnaces and at least one air conditioner, often installed by different companies with different ideas about ductwork, and sorting that out is what a whole-system visit is for. We check the furnace, the coil, the condenser, the thermostat and the ducts as one system, because in a Lodi Township house they fail as one system.

Local details we plan around in Lodi Township

• DTE gas reaches the Travis Pointe area and the subdivisions near Textile Road, but many roads in the middle and west of the township have no gas main, so propane furnaces and water heaters are routine.
• Septic drain fields are everywhere, and condensate from high-efficiency furnaces needs a neutralizer or a safe discharge point rather than a floor drain that feeds the septic.
• Mechanical permits for Lodi addresses go through Washtenaw County's building department, and the county expects permits on furnace and condenser replacements even on rural parcels.
• Lodi is flat, open and largely treeless outside the yards themselves, and it takes winter wind straight off the fields from the west and southwest, which makes infiltration a bigger factor in heating loads than it is in the shaded neighborhoods of Ann Arbor. Summer sun on a west-facing wall with no canopy pushes condensers hard. The Saline River headwaters and the low ground near Saline-Waterworks Road hold some humidity, but most of the township drains well.