Service Agreements in New Boston, Michigan

The Temprasure Service Agreement is the simplest way for a New Boston homeowner to make sure the furnace and air conditioner get looked at every year by someone with a combustion analyzer and a set of gauges. It covers a fall furnace tune-up and a spring AC tune-up, priority scheduling when something fails, a discount on any repair, and reminders from us when a visit is due. New Boston is about 25 minutes from our shop, so the two visits are easy to keep, and the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds equipment common around Middlebelt Road south of Pennsylvania is exactly the kind that benefits from a seasonal look before it is asked to run every night.

New Boston houses and what that means for service agreements

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.

Safety is the quiet part of the agreement in New Boston. The fall furnace visit includes a heat exchanger inspection and a carbon monoxide reading at the registers with the blower running, and in the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds homes around the Huron River at New Boston with gas furnaces in damp basements, that check is the one that matters most. Exchangers rust from the outside in a Michigan basement, and the first sign is usually a reading, not a symptom. Agreement customers in New Boston get that reading every year, documented, along with a look at the water heater venting and the flue. We have shut furnaces down on that visit, shown the homeowner why, and been right. That is worth more than the discount.

We write more service agreements in New Boston every year because the math is easy to see once a homeowner has lived through one no-heat night. Two visits a year, spring for the air conditioner and fall for the furnace, on equipment in the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds around Downtown New Boston on Huron River Drive and Willow Metropark that is often fifteen years old. The DTE Energy furnaces get a combustion check and a cleaned flame sensor; the condensers near the Huron River Drive corridor get their capacitors measured and coils washed. New Boston is about 25 minutes from the shop, and agreement customers go to the front of the line in a heat wave or a cold snap.

Local details we plan around in New Boston

• Many properties have a pole barn or outbuilding with a unit heater or small furnace that we service along with the house.
• Long driveways and addresses spread across 36 square miles mean we batch Huron Township calls, but same-day service is still the norm.
• 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.