Heating and Cooling in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township, on one page

This page covers two neighbors that share a name: the City of Bloomfield Hills and the Charter Township of Bloomfield. The city is small, with fewer than 2,000 homes, many of them on large lots and a typical build date around the early 1970s. The township has roughly ten times as many homes, and about half of them date from the 1950s and 1960s. Those are Census Bureau estimates, and for a place as small as the city they are rough.

Maverick Heating and Cooling is a family-owned HVAC company, in business for 7 years. In a house of any size we work the same way. We arrive when we said we would, we find the real cause, and we explain the options and the price before any work starts. Every job is 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Call 248-930-2080. We also work in Birmingham, and every community we cover is on our service area page.

Heating and cooling a large Bloomfield Hills home evenly

Homes in the city and the township are often large, and size is what makes comfort hard. Rooms at the far end of a long duct run get less air. One thermostat in a hallway cannot speak for the whole house. The usual answers are a zoning system, which lets one system treat areas separately, or separate systems for separate parts of the house.

Sizing matters too. Equipment should be chosen from a load calculation for the actual house, not from a rule of thumb or the size of the old unit. An air conditioner that is too large cools fast, shuts off before it has pulled the humidity out and leaves the rooms cool but clammy.

Township homes from the 1950s and 1960s

Roughly seven in ten Bloomfield Township homes were built between 1940 and 1979, and nearly eight in ten are detached single-family houses. A home of that age is often on its third furnace, with the supply and return ducts it started with. If the air conditioner is old enough to run on R-22, a refrigerant that has not been made or imported since 2020, a major repair is a strong signal to price a new air conditioner alongside it. Nobody is required to replace a working system.

Utilities in the city and the township

About nine in ten township homes heat with utility gas, and Consumers Energy is the township's gas utility. In the city the share is closer to five in six, with the rest on electricity or propane. DTE supplies the electricity. Consumers Energy scheduled about seven miles of gas main replacement in the Bloomfield area for 2026. If you ever smell gas, leave the house, then call 911 and your gas utility from outside. Both communities are on municipal water, and private wells are not typical. A humidifier pad still collects scale, so replace it each season.