Heating and Cooling in Lake Orion, MI

Lake Orion heating and cooling, from old cottages to new builds

Two kinds of house share the Lake Orion address. Census Bureau estimates for Orion Township, village included, show about a quarter of homes built in the 1990s alone and nearly another quarter since 2000. Fewer than one in five predate 1960. Around eight in ten are detached houses. So most of the township is fairly new.

More than nine in ten homes here heat with natural gas, a larger share than Oakland County overall. That makes the gas furnace the main event for a heating and cooling company in Lake Orion, and it is the work Maverick Heating and Cooling has done for 7 years. We are family-owned. We show up when we say we will, and nothing starts until you have heard what is wrong and what it costs.

Lake houses that began as summer cottages

Lake Orion started as a resort town. By 1909 mail went by boat to more than 300 cottages on the lake and its islands. A house that began as a seasonal cottage and has since been turned into a year-round home tends to show it: heat that was added later, ducts fitted into whatever space was left, and additions never properly tied into the furnace.

If one room of an older lake house is always cold, or an enclosed porch has no heat at all, extending the ductwork is not the only answer. A ductless mini-split heats and cools a single room or addition through a small opening in the wall. Where the ducts are worth keeping, duct repair and sealing is often the simpler fix. We will tell you which we would choose and why.

Township water or your own well

The village and the township water system both receive Great Lakes Water Authority water. But the township reports just over 5,000 water customers compared with roughly 16,000 homes, so many Orion Township households are likely on a private well. That is worth knowing before you call about a water heater. Well water often carries more sediment and minerals, which settle in the bottom of a tank and make it rumble, and can scale up a tankless unit sooner. The township is a drop-off point for county well-water testing, the place to start if yours has never been checked.

Gas and electric service in Orion Township

Consumers Energy holds the natural gas franchise in Orion Township, and DTE is the electric utility. If you ever smell gas, leave the house first, then call 911 and the gas utility from outside. Do not look for the leak. We also work in neighboring Clarkston and Auburn Hills.