Heating and Cooling in Waterford, MI

A heating and cooling company for every age of Waterford home

Waterford does not have a typical house. Census Bureau estimates show about a third of its homes were built before 1960, another third in the 1960s and 1970s, about a quarter in the 1980s and 1990s and roughly one in ten since 2000. Three in four are detached houses, and with 34 named lakes in the township, a good number sit on or near the water. That mix decides what kind of heating and cooling work a house needs.

Maverick Heating and Cooling is a family-owned business, 7 years in, with a crew of four that works on most makes and models. We are there when we said we would be. We tell you what failed, what your options are and what each costs before any work starts. Every job is 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Call 248-930-2080.

Older Waterford homes: furnaces and ducts that came later

About one Waterford home in three predates 1960. Where a house of that age has a furnace, the ductwork was often laid out before central air was common. Houses of that era are also more likely than newer ones to be heated by a boiler, and a boiler-heated house has no ducts. Air conditioning goes into a house like that as a ductless system or with new ductwork.

The average January low in this part of Oakland County is in the teens, and heating demand in the county is roughly nine to ten times cooling demand over a year. If an older furnace quits in that weather, call and we will tell you honestly how soon we can be there. Our furnace repair page lists what to check first.

Lake homes and additions

Many of Waterford's lakefront and near-lake homes are older houses that have since been expanded. An addition changes how much heating and cooling a house needs, but the furnace and ducts were sized for the house as it was. The usual result is a new room at the end of the line that is cold in January and hot in July. If the furnace has capacity to spare, the ducts can sometimes be reworked. Often the cleaner answer is a ductless mini-split: one outdoor unit, an indoor unit on the wall with its own control, and no ducts.

Waterford's well water, water heaters and humidifiers

Waterford's municipal water does not come from the Great Lakes Water Authority. The township pumps it from its own groundwater wells and treats it for iron and manganese, and homes not on the township system use private wells. Groundwater often carries more minerals than lake water. In practice that can mean sediment building up faster in a tank water heater and scale on a tankless unit or a humidifier pad.

Flushing the tank and changing the humidifier pad each season count for more on well water, and more again on a private well without the township's treatment. DTE is the electric utility in Waterford. Neighboring Pontiac and West Bloomfield are part of our area too.