Thermostat Installation in New Boston, Michigan

Houses in New Boston have thermostat wiring from every era of the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds that fill Wayne County. Two-conductor cable to a round mercury dial in the older blocks around the Huron River at New Boston, four conductors in the colonials that got central air in the 1980s, and five or more in the subdivisions near Huron Estates where the builder ran enough wire but the installer never used it. What your New Boston house needs for a modern thermostat depends on which of those you have, and that is what we check before recommending anything. Temprasure installs Ecobee, Nest, Honeywell Home and Sensi units, plus plain digital thermostats for people who want nothing connected, and we quote the whole job flat-rate.

New Boston houses and what that means for thermostats

New Boston and Huron Township give us a wide spread of housing in a small area. The village core along Huron River Drive and the streets behind it has 1900s to 1930s frame houses with Michigan basements or crawlspaces, retrofitted ductwork and a furnace that was replaced sometime in the 90s. Waltz is similar but older on average. The 1960s and 70s ranches and subdivisions off Middlebelt, Sibley and Hannan Roads are on block basements or crawlspaces, with single-return furnaces and add-on central air from the 80s. Out on the section roads, 1990s to 2010s acreage builds are large colonials and ranches on poured basements with two-stage furnaces, sometimes a second attic system, and a pole barn with its own heater. Water is a mix of municipal supply in the village and wells outside it, and the well water is hard. Propane is the fuel on a fair number of rural parcels, which changes the furnace and water heater options.

Two-stage and variable-speed equipment in New Boston is often running at a fraction of what it can because of the thermostat. The subdivisions in 48164 that were built or re-equipped in the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds got two-stage furnaces and air conditioners, and a lot of them were paired with a basic single-stage thermostat that never calls for high. On a cold Wayne County morning the furnace plods along on low for an hour; on a humid July afternoon the air conditioner never ramps up enough to pull moisture out of the house. We wire the second stage, set the staging logic in the thermostat rather than leaving it to the furnace board's timer, and set the dehumidification call so the system runs the way the equipment was designed to in New Boston.

With about 16,000 across Huron Township, with a few thousand in New Boston itself residents and housing that runs from the 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds around Inkster Road south of Sibley to the newer streets near Middlebelt Road south of Pennsylvania, New Boston keeps us busy year-round. The equipment is on DTE Energy for heat and DTE Energy for cooling, the basements near Oakwoods Metropark are prone to the same moisture issues as the rest of Wayne County, and the ductwork in a lot of these houses was never sized for the air conditioner that was bolted on later. We are 15 miles away, we service every brand, and we quote a flat rate before we start.

Local details we plan around in New Boston

• Propane furnaces and water heaters on the rural parcels need conversion kits and different orifices, and we carry what is needed for both propane and natural gas.
• Long driveways and addresses spread across 36 square miles mean we batch Huron Township calls, but same-day service is still the norm.
• River flooding in the village means we raise replacement furnaces and water heaters on pads and route condensate carefully.
• The Huron River and the three metroparks keep New Boston humid and foggy, and the low ground near the river floods in spring, which affects basements and crawlspaces in the village. The open farmland on the west side of the township takes winter wind across the fields with no shelter, and the township runs a touch colder on clear nights than the suburbs to the north. Tree cover in the parks and along the river gives shade but drops debris into condensers all fall.