Ductwork Repair in Pittsfield Township, Michigan

Temprasure has been sealing and repairing ductwork in Pittsfield Township for as long as we have been repairing furnaces, because the two are inseparable. In the 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors houses of Silverleaf, the returns are panned joist bays that leak at every joint and pull air from the basement; in the newer subdivisions on the Washtenaw County side of Pittsfield Township, the branches are flex duct sagging between attic trusses with the insulation slipping off. We seal trunk joints with mastic, replace crushed and kinked flex, add returns where the system is starved, and arrange aerosol sealing when the leakage is spread through walls we cannot reach. Every item is quoted flat so you decide what is worth doing.

Pittsfield Township houses and what that means for duct repair & sealing

The heating-and-cooling story in Pittsfield is really the story of builder-grade equipment reaching its twenties. Thousands of colonials and two-story traditionals went up between about 1992 and 2012 on full poured-concrete basements, and most were handed over with a standard 80 percent furnace, a 10 to 13 SEER air conditioner, a bypass humidifier that nobody ever changed the pad on, and a 40-gallon atmospheric water heater. We are now replacing those systems in bulk, often two or three in the same subdivision in one week. The older pockets along Carpenter Road, Packard Road and Golfside Road are 1960s–70s ranches and tri-levels with crawlspaces or partial basements and ductwork that runs through unconditioned space. Townhouse and condo complexes near Ellsworth Road and State Street use furnaces in utility closets with limited combustion air. The newest homes off Textile Road came with 90-plus furnaces and R-410A condensers and are mostly still in warranty territory.

The subdivisions built around Pittsfield Township in the 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors have the opposite duct problem. A metal trunk in the basement serves the first floor fine, but the second floor is fed by flex duct stapled between the attic trusses, often fifteen or twenty feet of it with three sagging bends to reach the far bedroom, with the insulation slid off the elbows. In July that run delivers air that has been heated by a 130-degree attic; in January it delivers air that has been chilled on the way. Combined with a single upstairs return in the hall, that is why the second floor in 48108 is never comfortable. Our repair in these Pittsfield Township homes is to replace the worst flex with shorter, straighter runs, support and insulate the rest, seal where the branches leave the trunk and add a return so the upstairs can actually breathe.

Pittsfield Township has about 40,000 and still growing residents and a housing stock, mostly 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors, that has been through more HVAC changes than its ductwork has. When a 1990s furnace was replaced with a high-efficiency unit, or central air was added to a house near Pittsfield Preserve that never had it, the ducts usually stayed the same. We repair and replace ductwork throughout Pittsfield Township, from the older blocks around Brookside to the newer streets near Centennial Park, sealing with mastic rather than tape and sizing replacements to the equipment that is actually installed.

Local details we plan around in Pittsfield Township

• Subdivision associations in places like Silverleaf and Stonebridge can have rules on condenser screening and side-yard placement, so we check before we set a new unit.
• The whole township is on DTE gas and electric, with municipal water from Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti depending on the subdivision, so well water is rare except on a few older parcels south of Textile Road.
• Many 1990s subdivisions were plumbed with flexible duct branches stapled to basement joists, and crushed or disconnected runs are the usual cause of a cold upstairs bedroom.
• Pittsfield is flat, open former farmland, and the newer subdivisions have not grown enough tree cover yet to matter, so south- and west-facing colonials bake in July and condensers run long hours. Winter wind sweeps across the fields from the west with little to slow it, which pushes heating loads on the exposed end units of every subdivision. Drainage is managed through retention ponds, and homes backing up to them run a bit damper in the basement.