Heating and Cooling Repair Across Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene is the largest city in Kootenai County, with about 56,000 people, and it sits just east of Post Falls on the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene. We repair furnaces, heat pumps and central air across the city, from the older streets near Sherman Avenue and Sanders Beach to the newer houses off Northwest Boulevard and Ramsey Road. Our services here are furnace repair, heat pump repair, AC repair and emergency furnace repair.
Old and New Houses Side by Side in Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene's housing is split between two eras. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey puts the median home in the city at 1994, but about one in eleven homes was built before 1940 (Coeur d'Alene housing data). Wikipedia notes that the city's early-1900s additions went in along East Sherman Avenue, on East Lakeshore Drive near Sanders Beach and near City Park (Coeur d'Alene neighborhood history). At the other end, about four in ten homes were built in 2000 or later.
Those two eras need different repairs. A 1920s or 1940s house near downtown may have a furnace that replaced an old boiler or oil burner, ducts added later through closets and soffits, and a single return that starves the blower. A house built in the 2000s more likely has a high efficiency furnace with PVC venting, a control board, and a central air or heat pump condenser out back.
Electric Heat and Heat Pumps in Coeur d'Alene
About 41 percent of Coeur d'Alene homes heat with electricity, more than in Post Falls, Hayden or Rathdrum. That includes apartments and condos with baseboard heat or small electric furnaces, and houses that heat with an air source heat pump. Heat pump defrost problems, failed backup heat strips and electric furnace sequencers are common repairs in electric-heated homes like these.
Winters are long: NOAA's normals for the Coeur d'Alene station show about 6,317 heating degree days and about 120 nights a year at freezing or below (NOAA normals for Coeur d'Alene).
Common Heating and AC Repairs in Coeur d'Alene Homes
- Undersized returns and tired blower motors in older homes near downtown
- Flame sensor, igniter and pressure switch faults on newer high efficiency furnaces
- Iced-over heat pumps and failed auxiliary heat strips
- Electric furnace sequencers and heating elements in condos and apartments
- AC capacitors and contactors that fail on the first hot week of summer
- Condensate drains and pumps on furnaces in finished basements
Nearby, we also cover Dalton Gardens on Coeur d'Alene's north edge and Hayden up Government Way. See every town in the service area.