Service Agreements in Pittsfield Township, Michigan

For Pittsfield Township households that would rather not think about the furnace until it matters, the Temprasure Service Agreement handles the thinking. We reach out in the fall to schedule the furnace tune-up and in the spring for the air conditioner, you confirm a date, and Al comes out to Pittsfield Township with the instruments and leaves a written report. If the 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors system in your house needs a repair during the year, you are prioritized and the repair is discounted. Agreement customers across Washtenaw County tell us the part they value most is simply that the visits happen.

Pittsfield Township houses and what that means for service agreements

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.

Winter in Washtenaw County is the argument for priority scheduling. When a polar vortex stretch settles over Pittsfield Township and the overnight lows hit single digits, every furnace that was going to fail that year fails in the same week, and every HVAC shop in the area is working through a list. Agreement customers in Pittsfield Township are at the top of that list. A no-heat call from 48108 on the agreement goes ahead of the routine work, which in a cold snap is usually the difference between the same day and the day after. We cannot promise what the weather does to the board, but we can promise where you sit on it, and for a household with kids, older family members or a house in Carpenter Road corridor that will freeze its pipes, that is the point.

A lot of the homes we see in Pittsfield Township are the 1990s–2010s subdivision colonials, with 1960s–70s ranches along the older corridors that changed hands recently, and the new owners near Lake Forest, Centennial Park and Lake Forest Golf Club usually have the same question: what did I actually buy? Our inspections answer that with a combustion test, a heat exchanger check, refrigerant readings, duct static and a written report. Our service agreement keeps answering it twice a year afterward. The shop is 5 miles away, and maintenance customers in Pittsfield Township get priority scheduling when the weather turns.

Local details we plan around in Pittsfield Township

• 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.
• Builder-era water heaters in the 1990s colonials are mostly original or on their second unit, and a lot of them are sharing a flue with the furnace that will need relining when the furnace goes to 90 percent.
• 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.