Heating and Cooling in Canton, MI

Canton heating and cooling for three generations of subdivisions

Canton was a farming township until the late 1960s. Then came Holiday Park, then Windsor Park and Carriage Hills in the early 1970s, a decade when, the township's history says, 2,000 new homes a year was not unusual. Census Bureau estimates put about a third of Canton's homes in the 1960s and 1970s, another third in the 1980s and 1990s and nearly three in ten since 2000, roughly twice the share for Metro Detroit as a whole. Only about one in twenty-five predates 1960.

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Windsor Park to Cherry Hill Village: how old is the equipment?

The decade a Canton house was built tells you roughly where its equipment stands, because a furnace typically lasts 15 to 20 years and a central air conditioner often 12 to 17:

• 1970s, as in Windsor Park and Carriage Hills: often on a third furnace, and often still on the builder's ducts, which in a typical home lose 20 to 30 percent of their air through leaks.
• 1980s and 1990s: the first replacement furnace and air conditioner have usually gone in, and many are now aging themselves.
• 2000 and later, as in Cherry Hill Village, where building began in 2000: in the oldest of them an original furnace is past 20 years.

The August 2023 storm and Canton basements

In August 2023 Canton got 4 to 5 inches of rain within hours. The township's master plan says the storm flooded at least 225 homes, and TV news reported flooded basements. In a house with a basement, the furnace and water heater usually stand there. Either one that has been under water should stay off until it has been checked: industry guidance is to replace flood-damaged gas valves and controls, and often the whole unit. Some Canton houses have sump pumps and some do not. If yours has one, test it before the storms come.