HVAC Maintenance in Augusta Township, Michigan

Temprasure runs furnace and air conditioner maintenance across Washtenaw County, and Augusta Township is on the fall and spring schedule every year. We set furnace visits for September through November so the combustion check and carbon monoxide reading are done before the heating season, and AC visits for April through June so the refrigerant charge can be verified under real load. For Augusta Township homes from Stony Creek Road area to the streets around Augusta Township Hall on Talladay Road, that means two visits a year from the same person, a written record of every reading, and a system that is far less likely to make an emergency call on the coldest or hottest day of the year.

Augusta Township houses and what that means for hvac maintenance

Augusta's housing is a long timeline laid out along the roads. The 1860s–1920s farmhouses have Michigan basements, two or three additions and forced-air systems that were added long after the house was built, usually with ductwork that never reached the upstairs properly. The 1960s–80s ranches and split-levels that make up the biggest share of the township sit on crawlspaces or shallow basements, with furnaces in hallway closets or utility rooms and ductwork under the floor that has collected decades of moisture and rodent traffic. Newer acreage homes and the subdivisions off Whittaker and Bemis Roads are 1995–2015 colonials and ranches on full poured basements with 80 or 90 percent furnaces, many on propane, and condensers sized by the builder's rule of thumb rather than a load calculation. Manufactured homes with package units or small furnaces are common on the back roads. A good number of properties also have a pole barn or shop with a hanging heater we end up servicing.

Spring AC maintenance in Augusta Township has to deal with what the outdoors does to a condenser. The cottonwood along the Huron River corridor and the mature trees in the older parts of Stony Creek Road area coat a coil in a few weeks, and a matted coil raises head pressure, pulls more amps and shortens the compressor's life. We clean the condenser coil on every Augusta Township AC visit, check the fins for damage, and only then measure charge by superheat and subcooling so the reading reflects a clean system. We also test the capacitor against its rating, because the DTE Energy grid sags on hot afternoons across Washtenaw County and a weak capacitor is the first thing to give up when voltage drops.

Augusta Township homeowners reach us from Rawsonville Road south of Bemis, Bemis Road area, the blocks around Lincoln High School and everywhere in between. The drive from Ypsilanti is roughly 18 minutes, which is close enough that a system failing at dinnertime can usually be seen the same evening. The 1960s–90s rural ranches and newer acreage builds 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 Augusta Township

• Septic systems serve nearly every home, and condensate from a high-efficiency furnace should be neutralized or routed away from the septic line.
• Long rural power lines mean regular outages, and many homeowners here have or want a generator transfer setup for their furnace and well pump.
• High water tables along Stony Creek and Paint Creek flood crawlspaces, and we find rusted-through duct trunks and water-damaged furnaces in those areas after wet springs.
• Augusta is low, flat and open, and the land along Stony Creek and Paint Creek holds water well into spring, so basements and crawlspaces in the township's middle run damp for months. Winter wind crosses the fields with nothing in the way, and the exposed north and west sides of farmhouses and acreage homes carry heavier heating loads than their square footage would suggest. Summer humidity is high across the creek bottoms, and shade is scarce outside the older farmsteads with their windbreaks.