HVAC Installation & Replacement in Milan, Michigan

Temprasure installs furnaces, air conditioners and heat pumps across Washtenaw County, and Milan is roughly 23 minutes from our shop on Lakeridge Drive in Ypsilanti. We know the housing here. The 1890s–1930s railroad-town homes and 1960s–2000s ranches and colonials around Platt Road area usually need the venting and return air looked at before a new high-efficiency furnace goes in, and the newer builds in 48160 usually have ductwork that was never sealed and a condenser pad that has settled. A new system from us accounts for those things in the estimate instead of discovering them on install day, and the estimate is free, written, and good for a long time.

Milan houses and what that means for hvac installation

Downtown Milan and the streets around Wilson Park and Hurd Street are 1880s–1930s frame houses on stone or block basements with the original furnace location in a tight corner and a gas line that has been extended a few times. Several still have gravity-furnace duct trunks that were reused when forced air went in. The 1950s–70s ranches along Dexter Street, County Street and the Carpenter Road side of town often sit on crawlspaces or slabs, and electric baseboard or wall furnaces show up in a few that never got ductwork. Newer subdivisions off Platt Road and Arkona Road are 1990s–2000s colonials and ranches on full basements with 80 percent furnaces and R-22 condensers that are now getting replaced in bulk. On the Monroe County side and out Redman Road, we see older farmhouses with additions, mobile homes with package units, and acreage homes on well and septic.

Venting is the second thing we look at hard in Milan. A high-efficiency condensing furnace vents through the side wall in PVC, which frees up the masonry chimney that an older 80% furnace shared with the water heater. In the 1890s–1930s railroad-town homes and 1960s–2000s ranches and colonials common near the Saline River walking trail, that leaves a 40-gallon atmospheric water heater alone on a chimney that is now too large for it, and the flue gases can condense and eat the liner. We address that on the estimate, either with a chimney liner sized for the water heater or by talking through a power-vent water heater at the same time. Milan homes on DTE Energy gas also get the gas line pressure-tested and the drip leg and shutoff brought up to current code as part of the install.

With about 6,000, split between Washtenaw and Monroe Counties residents and housing that runs from the 1890s–1930s railroad-town homes and 1960s–2000s ranches and colonials around Carpenter Road corridor to the newer streets near Downtown Milan, Milan keeps us busy year-round. The equipment is on DTE Energy for heat and DTE Energy for cooling, the basements near the Milan Senior and Community Activity Center are prone to the same moisture issues as the rest of Washtenaw County, and the ductwork in a lot of these houses was never sized for the air conditioner that was bolted on later. We are 14 miles away, we service every brand, and we quote a flat rate before we start.

Local details we plan around in Milan

• The county line runs through town, so permits for a Milan address may go through the City of Milan, Washtenaw County or Monroe County depending on which side of the line the house sits.
• The Saline River floodplain around Wilson Park has put basements under water in wet springs, and we check for high-water marks on furnace cabinets in that area.
• A good share of the 1950s–60s ranches here have original 60-amp services, so adding air conditioning starts with a panel conversation.
• Milan is low, flat and open, in the Saline River bottomland, and summer humidity lingers in the older neighborhoods close to the river. The town is far enough south that it occasionally picks up weather coming off Lake Erie that misses Ypsilanti, including heavier late-winter snow and ice. With little high ground and few windbreaks between the subdivisions and the fields to the south, winter wind drives infiltration on the exposed sides of newer homes.