New Home HVAC Inspection in Pittsfield Township, Michigan

If you are under contract on a house in Pittsfield Township and the inspection report came back with "recommend evaluation by a licensed HVAC contractor," that line is the reason this page exists. Temprasure is that contractor for buyers across Washtenaw County. Call or text with the address and the deadline, and we will get out to Centennial Park or anywhere else in 48108, test everything that can be tested, and send you a plain-language report with photos. For a 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors house with equipment of unknown age, it is the most useful money you will spend during the contingency period.

Pittsfield Township houses and what that means for pre-purchase inspection

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.

Flips and former rentals in Pittsfield Township are a category we approach carefully. A house in Centennial Park that has been turned over for sale often has a new thermostat, a wiped-down furnace cabinet and a fresh filter in front of equipment that was never serviced, and an air conditioner that was topped off with refrigerant for the showing rather than having its leak found. Our inspection in Pittsfield Township looks past the presentation: serial-number ages, heat exchanger condition, charge by superheat and subcooling rather than a pressure reading, and the Washtenaw County permit record for any equipment the listing calls new. When a 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors rental in 48108 has had a decade of deferred maintenance, the report says so plainly, with photos.

We write more service agreements in Pittsfield 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 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors around Waterways and Lillie Park that is often fifteen years old. The DTE Energy furnaces get a combustion check and a cleaned flame sensor; the condensers near Golfside Meadows get their capacitors measured and coils washed. Pittsfield Township is about 12 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 Pittsfield Township

• Pittsfield issues its own mechanical permits and schedules its own inspections, and furnace replacements are expected to be pulled and inspected.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.