HVAC for every era of house in Longmeadow, MA
Longmeadow, MA houses run from pre-1900 homes on the Green to 1990s colonials, and Clean Climate HVAC plans HVAC work here around the year your house was built. We cover the whole town under MA PL #172086.
Slide to the decade your house was built
Each era came with its own heating, its own idea of cooling and its own set of problems. Move the slider to see what we usually find in a Longmeadow house of that age and where we would take it next.
The Green and Longmeadow Street
The oldest houses in town line Longmeadow Street, around the Green and north toward the Springfield line. Many were built long before central heat, and whatever runs them today was retrofitted, often more than once.
Keep the radiators and replace a tired boiler with a high-efficiency model, then add ductless cooling with the line sets run on the side or back of the house so the street face stays as it is.
Boiler installationColonials, Tudor Revivals and bungalows
The early 20th century brought colonials, Tudor Revivals and 1920s bungalows set back on leafy lots. About 30 in 100 Longmeadow homes date from 1939 or earlier.
Ductless heads upstairs cool the bedrooms without cutting into plaster, and they add efficient shoulder season heat. Where the attic has room, a properly sized air handler is the other route.
Mini split installationPostwar capes and ranches
This is the biggest single slice of the town, about 46 in 100 homes, and the median Longmeadow house was built in the late 1950s. Capes and ranches on quiet side streets, many with a basement that holds the whole mechanical system.
Zoning splits the house so the upstairs gets its own thermostat and damper, and a heat pump can replace the old AC condenser to carry most of the heating too.
HVAC zoning systemsBuilt with ducts from the start
About 22 in 100 homes date from these decades. Houses from these decades were usually built with ducted forced air from the start.
A dual fuel setup: a cold climate heat pump carries most of the year and the gas furnace takes the coldest nights, which also fits Mass Save's partial-home rules with the right controls.
Dual fuel systemsEversource on both meters, and older houses start with an assessment
Longmeadow is Eversource territory for electricity, and Eversource Gas holds the gas franchise, so Mass Save programs apply here. Clean Climate is a Mass Save Approved Contractor and a member of the Mass Save Heat Pump Installer Network, which the program requires for a heat pump rebate.
The catch for this town is age. With fewer than 2 in 100 homes built since 2000, almost every house needs a no-cost Home Energy Assessment to show it is weatherized before it can reach Mass Save's whole-home tier. We plan the equipment around that report, so the heat pump is sized for the house after the air sealing and insulation work, not before.
Where we work in Longmeadow
Everywhere from the Springfield line to the Enfield line. Longmeadow Street carries Route 5 down the west side of town past the Green, with I-91 and the Connecticut River meadows beyond it. Across town we are on Laurel Street, Williams Street, Converse Street and Dwight Road, right up to the East Longmeadow line.
What Longmeadow homeowners ask us
Usually, yes. Cast iron radiators outlast several boilers, so we size the new boiler to the radiation the house actually has rather than to the old boiler's nameplate. We also check the near-boiler piping and the air elimination, because a new boiler piped the old way can be noisy and short cycle. Read more about boiler installation.
It can, but age matters. The whole-home tier requires the house to count as weatherized, and for a house this age that usually means a no-cost Home Energy Assessment and then the air sealing and insulation it recommends. Most older Longmeadow homes go the assessment route. If the house is not there yet, a partial-home project that keeps the boiler as backup is often the better first step.
They do not have to. We route line sets on the side or back of the house, pick head positions with you room by room and keep the outdoor units out of the front view where the lot allows. Inside, a head sits high on a wall, and many owners in older homes pick ceiling cassettes or slim ducted units that hide in a closet or attic.
Longmeadow borders Enfield, Connecticut, and our shop is in Broad Brook, so it is a short run up I-91 or Route 5. We answer the phone 24 hours a day and dispatch emergency calls at night. Massachusetts work is covered under MA PL #172086. There is no Longmeadow office.
Tell us the year the house was built
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