Thermostat Installation in Lodi Township, Michigan

Temprasure has installed and repaired thermostats across Washtenaw County for years, and Lodi Township is a regular stop. The job takes under an hour when the wiring is sound and a little longer when a common wire has to be added or a new cable fished through a 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland wall near Lodi Center at Pleasant Lake and Ann Arbor-Saline. Either way the price is quoted before we start and does not change. We carry the common smart thermostat models on the truck, install anything you have already bought if it fits your system, and configure every unit for the equipment in your Lodi Township house rather than leaving it on factory defaults that treat a gas furnace like a heat pump.

Lodi Township houses and what that means for thermostats

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.

Thermostat placement in the older Lodi Township housing near Lodi Township Hall on Pleasant Lake Road is a comfort problem that masquerades as an equipment problem. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland two-stories and bungalows have the thermostat in a central hallway that stays cool while the bedrooms bake, or on a wall that backs onto a chimney and reads warm all winter, or above a supply register that satisfies the thermostat before the room is heated. We relocate thermostats when the location is the issue, and when relocating is not practical we install a model with remote sensors and average the rooms that matter. For a Lodi Township house with a hot second floor, a sensor upstairs that the thermostat actually uses often does more than any damper adjustment.

Lodi Township homeowners reach us from Textile Road corridor, Pleasant Lake Road corridor, the blocks around the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds and everywhere in between. The drive from Ypsilanti is roughly 22 minutes, which is close enough that a system failing at dinnertime can usually be seen the same evening. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and golf-course customs on former farmland common here have the kind of mixed equipment ages that make a whole-system diagnosis worth doing: a newer condenser on an old coil, a furnace from one decade and a thermostat from another. We untangle that, explain it, and fix what actually needs fixing.

Local details we plan around in Lodi Township

• Pole barns and workshops with unit heaters or hanging furnaces are common, and homeowners here often ask us to look at those along with the house.
• Well water here is hard and often high in iron, and tank water heaters without regular flushing pack with sediment within a few years.
• 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.