HVAC Repair in Ypsilanti and Southeast Michigan

Most of the calls that come into Temprasure do not start with a diagnosis. They start with a description: the house is 62 degrees and the furnace is clicking, the upstairs is sweltering while the thermostat says 72, the blower runs all night and never shuts off, the system cuts out every time it rains. The homeowner does not know whether that is a furnace problem, an AC problem, a thermostat problem or a duct problem, and they should not have to. HVAC repair is the service for the whole system, and it is most of what we do between the first cold night in October and the last humid week in September. Al takes the call, asks the questions that narrow it down, and shows up with the truck stocked for all of it.

A Southeast Michigan house usually has four pieces of equipment working as one system: a gas furnace in the basement, an evaporator coil sitting on top of it, a condenser on a pad outside, and a thermostat on the wall telling all of it what to do. In newer subdivisions around Canton, Saline and Pittsfield Township there may be a heat pump in place of the condenser or a zoning board splitting the ducts. In a 1950s ranch in Westland or Garden City the furnace may be the third one in that spot while the ductwork is original. We repair every part of that chain, on every brand, and we spend as much time looking at how the parts talk to each other as we do at any single component. A furnace that locks out on high limit is often an airflow problem, and an airflow problem is often a duct or filter problem, not a furnace problem.

What a repair visit from Temprasure looks like is consistent regardless of which piece failed. We pull the service history if we have it, verify what the thermostat is calling for, check the low-voltage wiring and the transformer, test the control board for stored fault codes, and then go to the equipment with a meter and gauges. On the heating side that means flame sensor microamps, inducer pressure, gas valve voltage and a combustion check. On the cooling side it means capacitor microfarads, contactor condition, refrigerant pressures with superheat and subcooling, and a temperature split across the coil. Only after that do we quote, and the quote is one flat number for the whole repair that you approve before a tool comes out of the bag. The dispatch fee that got us there is credited toward that repair.

The reason people in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor keep recommending us is not that we are the biggest shop in Washtenaw County, because we are not. It is that we show up when we say we will, including New Year's Eve and the middle of a July heat wave, and that we tell people when a repair is the wrong move. We have talked homeowners out of furnace replacements that a larger company had already quoted, and we have told others plainly that a 20-year-old R-22 system with a leaking coil is past the point where a repair makes sense. The price you are quoted is the price you pay, and nights, weekends and holidays are billed at the same rate as a Tuesday.

If your system is down right now, the fastest route is to call. If it is limping along and you are trying to decide whether to repair or replace, the rest of this page and the linked guides will help you understand what we look for and how we decide. Either way, the first visit is a diagnosis, not a sales pitch.