Heating and AC Repair in Dalton Gardens
Dalton Gardens is a small city of about 2,500 people that borders Coeur d'Alene on the north and east (Dalton Gardens city facts). Its 2.3 square miles hold mostly single-family homes along Prairie Avenue, Dalton Avenue and Wilbur Avenue, around Dalton Elementary. Dalton Gardens homes get furnace repair on older systems, heat pump repair, add-on central air repair and emergency no-heat repair.
Dalton Gardens Has the Oldest Homes We Serve
Dalton Gardens stands apart from the rest of Kootenai County. Census figures put the median home here at 1973, older than any other town in our service area, with about one home in five built in the 1960s and about one in seven in the 1940s (Dalton Gardens housing data). Gas heats about 78 percent of homes.
Houses from those decades usually carry their second or third furnace on the original ductwork. That pairing is a common cause of heating trouble: a modern furnace on small 1960s ducts runs hot and trips its limit switch, the blower works hard against a single return, and back rooms stay cold. Many of these homes had central air added years after they were built, with a coil set on top of an older furnace and a line set routed outside the house.
Furnace Repair for Dalton Gardens' Older Systems
Older furnaces are mostly mechanical and fail on mechanical parts: blower motors and belts, worn inducer motors, thermocouples and pilot assemblies on standing pilot units, and gas valves. Many are 80 percent furnaces venting through a metal flue or an old chimney. When one of these furnaces is replaced with a high efficiency model, the new PVC vent and condensate drain have to be added, which is where problems show up in the first winter.
Winters are the same as the rest of the prairie: about 6,317 heating degree days a year by NOAA's Coeur d'Alene normals (NOAA normals for the area), so an old furnace here runs for most of the year. Heat pumps are less common in Dalton Gardens than in Coeur d'Alene, since only about one home in five heats with electricity, but where they have been added to an older gas furnace as a dual fuel system, the controls between the two are a frequent source of trouble.
Common Repairs in Dalton Gardens Homes
- Furnaces tripping their limit switch on undersized original ductwork
- Blower motors, belts and pulleys on older furnaces
- Standing pilot thermocouples and gas valves
- Add-on AC coils and condensers on older furnaces
- Cold back rooms from a single return or leaking ducts
- Venting and condensate problems after a furnace upgrade
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