Thermostat Installation in Salem Township, Michigan

If your Salem Township home has a two-stage or variable-speed furnace, a heat pump with gas backup, or a whole-home humidifier, the thermostat is doing more than turning the heat on and off. It decides when the second stage runs, when the heat pump hands off to the furnace at a Washtenaw County design temperature, and whether the humidifier holds the house at a sensible winter level. Temprasure sets all of that up on thermostat installs in Salem Township, from the 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them homes around the Salem-Plymouth township line along Napier Road to the newer construction in North Territorial Road corridor, and we do it in one visit at a flat price. Most of what we install qualifies for the DTE Energy smart thermostat rebate, and we handle the enrollment.

Salem Township houses and what that means for thermostats

Salem's houses are nearly all custom or owner-built rather than tract, and they are spread thin, so our calls here are long drives between very different problems. The 1850s–1920s farmhouses in and around the village have Michigan basements, rough stone walls and ductwork added in the 1960s or later, often with a furnace that is serving an addition it was never sized for. The 1970s–90s ranches and split-levels along Currie, Tower and Angle Roads sit on crawlspaces or walkout basements and frequently started life on fuel oil or propane. The 1995–2015 estate homes near Napier Road and along North Territorial are large two-stories with two or more furnaces, zoned systems and finished walkouts, commonly on propane with a buried tank. Many properties have a heated barn, workshop or pole building with its own unit heater. Older homes with converted oil furnaces and unlined chimneys are the most frequent safety finding we make here.

Thermostat placement in the older Salem Township housing near the Salem-Plymouth township line along Napier Road is a comfort problem that masquerades as an equipment problem. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them two-stories and bungalows have the thermostat in a central hallway that stays cool while the bedrooms bake, or on a wall that backs onto a chimney and reads warm all winter, or above a supply register that satisfies the thermostat before the room is heated. We relocate thermostats when the location is the issue, and when relocating is not practical we install a model with remote sensors and average the rooms that matter. For a Salem Township house with a hot second floor, a sensor upstairs that the thermostat actually uses often does more than any damper adjustment.

Salem Township homeowners reach us from the village of Salem, Seven Mile Road corridor, the blocks around Salem Township Hall on Six Mile Road and everywhere in between. The drive from Ypsilanti is roughly 24 minutes, which is close enough that a system failing at dinnertime can usually be seen the same evening. The 1970s–2000s acreage homes and estate builds with century-old farmhouses between them 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 Salem Township

• Septic systems serve the entire township, and condensate from high-efficiency furnaces needs to be neutralized or kept out of the septic line.
• Power outages on the long rural lines are frequent in ice storms, and generator transfer wiring for the furnace and well pump is one of the most common questions we get here.
• DTE gas reaches a few corridors near the village and the Plymouth border, but propane is the dominant fuel across the township and many homes have large buried tanks.
• Salem is higher and more rolling than the townships along the Huron, and it is exposed to wind from every direction across open fields, with winter gusts that make the northwest corner of any house the cold corner. Snowfall runs slightly heavier here than in Ypsilanti because of the elevation and the distance from the river valley. Woodlots and the Johnson Creek drain hold summer humidity in the low spots, while the higher ground stays drier.