Morgantown, West Virginia · Est. 1998
Concept site by Velcrest Web Development · a fictitious businessResidential and light-commercial heating and cooling. Every job starts with a room-by-room load calculation — because the size of the old unit is not a specification.
01 — What we are
Plenty of the systems we are called out to replace were never broken. They were the wrong size on the day they went in — too big, short-cycling, stripping humidity out of the air in August and running the burner ragged in January. A system that is two tons oversized cannot be repaired into being the right size.
So we measure. Every install begins with a Manual J load calculation, room by room, windows and insulation and orientation counted. It takes an afternoon. It is the difference between equipment that lasts eight years and equipment that lasts twenty.
02 — The work
Cold-climate heat pumps that still make heat at 5°F, and sealed-combustion gas furnaces where a heat pump is the wrong answer. We will tell you which one your house is, and why.
Matched condenser and coil — never a condenser bolted onto whatever coil was already there. New line set on every changeout, brazed under flowing nitrogen so the inside of the pipe stays clean.
The best equipment in the county cannot fix a duct system losing a third of its air into a crawlspace. We design to Manual D, seal with mastic rather than tape, and prove it with a blower door.
03 — The specification
A watchmaker prints the movement, the case and the crystal on the card, because the details are the argument. This is ours. Every line is on every proposal we write, in this order.
04 — The rule we work to
The old unit’s size is not a specification. It is a guess somebody else made.
Replacing like for like just buys the same problem again, with a new warranty on it. If the original was oversized — and on older houses around here it often was — the replacement will be too, unless somebody actually measures.
05 — Method
When copper is brazed with air still inside it, the heat grows a black oxide scale on the inner wall. That scale breaks loose later, travels with the oil, and takes out a compressor three summers after anyone remembers the install. Flowing nitrogen through the line while brazing prevents it entirely. It costs a few dollars of gas and ten minutes.
That is the whole method, applied to everything: do the invisible parts properly, because they are the ones that decide how long the visible parts last.
Evacuation
Below 500 microns, isolated, and watched to confirm it holds — not pumped for a fixed number of minutes and hoped for.
Condensate
Trapped, sloped and run to somewhere it can actually drain, with a float switch that shuts the system down before a ceiling does.
06 — How a job runs
01
An afternoon in the house. Rooms measured, insulation and windows recorded, ducts inspected, static pressure read.
02
The specification above, filled in for your house, with model numbers and a fixed price. Usually within three days.
03
One to three days for most homes. Floors covered, old equipment hauled away, the site left swept.
04
Readings taken and written down, the thermostat explained, the paperwork and both warranties handed over.
07 — Estimate
Survey and proposal are free and carry no obligation. We work in Morgantown and the surrounding county.
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