Service Agreements in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan

For Ypsilanti Township households that would rather not think about the furnace until it matters, the Temprasure Service Agreement handles the thinking. We reach out in the fall to schedule the furnace tune-up and in the spring for the air conditioner, you confirm a date, and Al comes out to Ypsilanti Township with the instruments and leaves a written report. If the 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in system in your house needs a repair during the year, you are prioritized and the repair is discounted. Agreement customers across Washtenaw County tell us the part they value most is simply that the visits happen.

Ypsilanti Township houses and what that means for service agreements

Our service calls in the township split into three distinct groups. The post-war neighborhoods north of I-94, including West Willow, Sugarbrook and Nancy Park, are mostly 1,000 to 1,400 square foot ranches and small capes on crawlspaces or shallow block basements, with 24-inch-wide furnace closets and ductwork that was sized for a 1950s gravity-style furnace and never enlarged. Replacement furnaces in those homes almost always need the return air opened up before they will run quietly. The Ford Lake shoreline and the Grove Road area have 1960s–80s ranches and split-levels that have been added onto repeatedly, so one furnace is often serving a sunroom, a finished walkout and a bonus room it was never sized for. South of Textile Road, the Smokler-Textile, Hickory Pointe and Paint Creek subdivisions are 1995–2015 colonials on full poured basements with original builder-grade 80 percent furnaces and 10 to 13 SEER condensers that are now reaching the end of their service life in a wave.

Safety is the quiet part of the agreement in Ypsilanti Township. The fall furnace visit includes a heat exchanger inspection and a carbon monoxide reading at the registers with the blower running, and in the 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in homes around Wiard's Orchards 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 Ypsilanti Township 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 Ypsilanti Township 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 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in around Huron River Drive and Wiard's Orchards that is often fifteen years old. The DTE Energy furnaces get a combustion check and a cleaned flame sensor; the condensers near Hickory Pointe get their capacitors measured and coils washed. Ypsilanti Township is about 10 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 Ypsilanti Township

• Clay soil and a high water table near Ford Lake and the Paint Creek drain mean sump pumps run constantly in spring, and we see rusted-out furnace cabinets and water heaters in basements that flooded once.
• Township water comes from the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority and is moderately hard, so water heater sediment and humidifier pad scaling are routine.
• The entire township is on DTE natural gas and electric, with no propane pockets to speak of except a handful of parcels at the far southern edge.
• Ford Lake moderates nothing in summer but it does add humidity; homes along the north and south shores run noticeably damper, and basements near the lake and the Paint Creek drain carry higher moisture loads year-round. The flat, open land south of Textile Road gets the full brunt of west winds in January, which drives infiltration in the newer subdivisions. Lake-effect snow rarely reaches this far east, so winter is about repeated freeze-thaw cycles rather than deep snowpack.