Furnace repair, installation and maintenance in Hamilton

Hamilton is two cities for a heating technician. In the lower city, the east end and the older streets off King and Main, the housing is mostly pre-war brick with gravity-era ductwork that was retrofitted for forced air decades ago; furnaces there are often oversized and the back bedrooms run cold. On the Mountain and in the post-war suburbs the bungalows and side-splits have better ducts but a lot of 80 percent mid-efficiency furnaces from the 1990s that are now past their life. Across both, the wave of high-efficiency units installed during the 2009 to 2012 rebate years is reaching the age where igniters, inducer motors and control boards start to go.

What that means for you: a repair is usually the right call on a unit under twelve years old, and a proper heat-loss calculation matters more than anywhere else when it is time to replace, because the old label on a Hamilton furnace is rarely the right size. Hamilton is Enbridge natural gas territory throughout, and every gas job we do is inspected to the Ontario code.

• Lower city, Stinson, Gibson and the east end: century homes, retrofitted ducts, oversized furnaces
• The Mountain and the west end: post-war bungalows, mid-efficiency units due for replacement
• Newer builds on the upper Mountain: builder-grade furnaces at the ten-year mark