Heating & Cooling Service in East Greenville, PA

Factory-era neighborhoods usually mean attached and semi-detached brick houses close to the sidewalk, built long before central air. In houses like that, boilers or furnaces have often been replaced once or twice, while chimneys, piping and ductwork stayed in place from the original install.

Fuel varies by street. PECO's gas territory includes the borough, but a main does not necessarily run past every house, so oil, propane and electric heat all show up in this part of Montgomery County. If oil is what you have and gas is on your street, a conversion can be worth pricing. If it is not, a well-serviced oil system or a cold-climate heat pump are the realistic options.

Chimneys deserve the same attention as the burner. A flue sized for an older oil boiler may be wrong for a newer, more efficient unit, and moisture or soot in the masonry is easy to miss unless someone looks.

On an oil furnace or boiler service we do the routine work, nozzle, filter, electrodes and combustion test, and look at the heat exchanger, the flue and the draft. A cracked heat exchanger and a blocked flue are the two findings that turn a tune-up into a shutdown.

We look at the tank and fuel line too. Old tanks in basements and buried tanks outdoors can leak or hold water and sludge, and a bad filter or line is a common reason an oil system quits in cold weather.

For a house on a street with gas available, we walk through a conversion in writing: new equipment, venting, what happens to the old tank and chimney, and the schedule. It is a bigger project than a repair and we say so, so you can choose with the whole picture.