Thermostat Installation in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan

Thermostat installation in Ypsilanti Township is a small job that we do a lot of, partly because so many of them go wrong the first time. A smart thermostat bought online and wired by color in a 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in house near Ford Heights ends up with a blank screen, a furnace that clicks on and off, or an air conditioner running when heat was called. Temprasure comes out from Ypsilanti, about 10 minutes to Ypsilanti Township, opens the furnace and the thermostat, lands every conductor by what it actually does, adds a common wire where the cable does not have one, and configures the unit for the equipment you have. Then we enroll you in the DTE Energy rebate and show you the app.

Ypsilanti Township houses and what that means for thermostats

Our service calls in the township split into three distinct groups. The post-war neighborhoods north of I-94, including West Willow, Sugarbrook and Nancy Park, are mostly 1,000 to 1,400 square foot ranches and small capes on crawlspaces or shallow block basements, with 24-inch-wide furnace closets and ductwork that was sized for a 1950s gravity-style furnace and never enlarged. Replacement furnaces in those homes almost always need the return air opened up before they will run quietly. The Ford Lake shoreline and the Grove Road area have 1960s–80s ranches and split-levels that have been added onto repeatedly, so one furnace is often serving a sunroom, a finished walkout and a bonus room it was never sized for. South of Textile Road, the Smokler-Textile, Hickory Pointe and Paint Creek subdivisions are 1995–2015 colonials on full poured basements with original builder-grade 80 percent furnaces and 10 to 13 SEER condensers that are now reaching the end of their service life in a wave.

Two-stage and variable-speed equipment in Ypsilanti Township is often running at a fraction of what it can because of the thermostat. The subdivisions in 48197 that were built or re-equipped in the 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in 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 Washtenaw 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 Ypsilanti Township.

With about 55,000, the largest township in Washtenaw County residents and housing that runs from the 1950s–70s ranches and colonials with 1990s–2010s subdivisions filling in around Lakeview on Ford Lake to the newer streets near Sugarbrook, Ypsilanti Township keeps us busy year-round. The equipment is on DTE Energy for heat and DTE Energy for cooling, the basements near Ford Lake are prone to the same moisture issues as the rest of Washtenaw County, and the ductwork in a lot of these houses was never sized for the air conditioner that was bolted on later. We are 3 miles away, we service every brand, and we quote a flat rate before we start.

Local details we plan around in Ypsilanti Township

• Township water comes from the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority and is moderately hard, so water heater sediment and humidifier pad scaling are routine.
• Mechanical permits and inspections run through the Ypsilanti Township Building Department rather than the city, and inspectors here do check furnace venting and condensate routing closely.
• Many of the 1990s–2000s subdivisions were built with flex-duct branch runs that have sagged or crushed in the basement ceiling, which shows up as weak airflow to upstairs bedrooms.
• Ford Lake moderates nothing in summer but it does add humidity; homes along the north and south shores run noticeably damper, and basements near the lake and the Paint Creek drain carry higher moisture loads year-round. The flat, open land south of Textile Road gets the full brunt of west winds in January, which drives infiltration in the newer subdivisions. Lake-effect snow rarely reaches this far east, so winter is about repeated freeze-thaw cycles rather than deep snowpack.