Metro Detroit service area
Heating and Cooling in Garden City, MI
Most Garden City houses went up in the 1940s and 1950s, so the furnace has usually been replaced more than once and the ducts often have not. Maverick Heating and Cooling is a family-owned crew of four for heating and cooling in Garden City, MI. Call 248-930-2080.
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Garden City grew up in the 1950s
Garden City grew fast. The census counted about 9,000 people here in 1950 and about 38,000 in 1960. Census Bureau estimates put more than six in ten of its homes in the 1940s and 1950s, against a little over a quarter across Metro Detroit as a whole. About nine in ten are detached houses, compared with about seven in ten.
Family-owned, 7 years in business, a crew of four: that is Maverick Heating and Cooling. We arrive at the time we set. We explain what went wrong and give you the price before any work starts, and we stand on one promise: 100% satisfaction guaranteed. We serve every city within 50 miles of Dearborn Heights, and that covers Garden City and its neighbors Westland and Inkster.
Garden City's 1950s houses: several furnaces, often the original ducts
The typical Garden City home was built in 1956. A furnace typically lasts 15 to 20 years, so a 70-year-old house is likely on its fourth, give or take one. The ducts are often the originals. ENERGY STAR says leaks and loose joints waste 20 to 30 percent of the air a typical home's ducts carry. If some rooms have always run cold, look at duct sealing and repair before a bigger furnace.
Few houses built in the 1950s came with central air, so where a Garden City house has it now, it was usually added later, onto ducts sized for heating. The weak point is often the return side: too few return openings, or ones that are too small. The usual signs are a loud blower, weak air at the registers and bedrooms that stay warm in July. A central air conditioner often lasts 12 to 17 years. Before we size a replacement, we check what the ducts can carry.
DTE gas and DTE electricity in Garden City
About nine in ten Garden City homes heat with utility gas, a higher share than Metro Detroit as a whole. DTE is the gas utility here, and the electric utility too. If you ever smell gas, leave the building right away without touching switches or looking for the leak, then call 911 and DTE from outside. Do not call us first. DTE's gas leak line is 800-947-5000.
Services
Heating and cooling services in Garden City
What Garden City homes tend to need, and why.
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Heating
Furnace Repair
About nine in ten homes here heat with utility gas, and a failed igniter or dirty flame sensor is a repair, not a new furnace.
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Heating
Furnace Installation
The typical house here dates from 1956, and its next furnace should be sized to the house as it stands now.
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Heating + cooling
Ductwork
More than six in ten homes here date from the 1940s and 1950s, and ducts that old often leak at the joints.
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Cooling
AC Installation
Central air was rarely built into a 1950s house, so a new unit has to work with ducts put in for heat.
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Cooling
AC Repair
In a 1950s house, low airflow through the old ducts can ice the indoor coil, so we check airflow before blaming the refrigerant.
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Hot water
Water Heaters
The city says its sanitary sewer overloads in large rainstorms, and a water heater that has sat in flood water should stay off until it is checked.
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Call 248-930-2080Why Maverick
Family-owned, on time and honest for 7 years
Family-owned
A family business with a crew of four, in business for 7 years.
On time
You planned your day around us. When we give you a time, that is when we are at your door.
Honest work
We show you what is wrong and tell you the price before we start. If a small fix does it, we say so.
100% satisfaction guaranteed
We stand behind every job. Your satisfaction is guaranteed, 100%.
My heat is out but the furnace seems fine. What should I check?
Check your other gas appliances. In January 2024 several households on Rosslyn Avenue woke to no heat in freezing weather, and their furnaces were fine. DTE said moisture from a water main problem had gotten into the gas lines and stopped the gas reaching them. If your gas stove or water heater has quit too, the supply is the likely cause, and that is DTE's to fix. If everything else works, call 248-930-2080 and we will tell you honestly how soon we can be there.
My Garden City basement backed up in a storm. Are the furnace and water heater safe to run?
If the water reached either one, leave it off until it has been checked. Industry guidance is that gas valves and controls that have been under water are replaced, and often the whole appliance. The city says basement footing drains still tied into the sanitary sewer overload it in large rainstorms, and after the storm of June 25 and 26, 2021, it collected sewage and storm-water damage claims from residents.
Can my 1950s Garden City house take a high-efficiency furnace?
Usually, yes. A high-efficiency furnace vents through plastic pipe, normally out a side wall, and needs a drain for the water it makes. One more thing in an older house: if the old furnace shared a chimney with a gas water heater, the water heater will be venting into that chimney alone, and the chimney may need attention. For a price, request a free quote by text or call 248-930-2080.
More communities
Other Metro Detroit communities we serve
- Dearborn Heights
- Garden City
- Inkster
- Redford
- Dearborn
- Westland
- Livonia
- Taylor
- Southfield
- Detroit
- Canton
- Farmington Hills
- Royal Oak
- Novi
- Birmingham
- West Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Hills
- Troy
We serve every city within 50 miles of Dearborn Heights. See all 261 cities, villages and townships we serve, or call 248-930-2080 and ask.
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Maverick Heating and Cooling · Family-owned · Metro Detroit, MI