HVAC and plumbing in Bloomfield, CT, sorted by the age of your house
Clean Climate HVAC handles HVAC and plumbing across Bloomfield, CT, from the Blue Hills streets near the Hartford line to the open roads of North Bloomfield. Nearly a quarter of the homes in town went up during the 1950s, according to census estimates, and that one number explains a lot of the calls we take here.
Pick the decade your Bloomfield house went up
Census estimates break Bloomfield's housing down by the decade it was built. Each era tends to come with its own heating system, its own ductwork situation and its own list of likely failures. Choose yours to see what we usually find.
Radiators, cast iron and no ductwork
Homes built before 1950 usually heat with hot water or steam from a boiler, and many were converted to oil or gas along the way. There is rarely any ductwork, so central air means cutting a duct route through finished plaster. Ductless cooling skips that demolition, and a new boiler keeps the radiators in service.
The biggest single group of homes in town
The 1950s were Bloomfield's busiest building decade by a wide margin. Many of these houses heat with baseboard hot water; others have an early furnace with ducts sized for heat only. When central air was added later, it often landed on those same ducts, which is why so many upstairs rooms from this era run warm in July.
Ducts built in, and now the weak link
Houses from the 1960s and 70s are more likely to have been built with ductwork, and some came with central air from the start. Now the ducts are usually the problem: leaky joints in unheated spaces, dampers nobody has touched in years and returns too small for a modern variable speed blower. A new unit on bad ducts runs loud and short cycles.
Original equipment at the end of its run
Many homes from the 1980s and 90s are on their second furnace and condenser, and some are still running the first. Older condensers often use R-22 refrigerant, which is no longer produced, so a leak on one of those units is usually the point to price a replacement rather than keep paying for a recharge.
Tighter houses, equipment in odd places
Newer homes and condos tend to be tighter, with air handlers in attics and closets. The work is mostly maintenance, humidity control, smart thermostats and zoning, plus the first round of replacements for systems installed around 2000 that are now past twenty years old.
Oil, gas and the rebate paperwork in Bloomfield
Bloomfield's electricity comes from Eversource, which puts every house in town inside the Energize CT heat pump programs. Natural gas comes from Connecticut Natural Gas, but a main on the next street does not mean one on yours, so the fuel question starts with what actually reaches the property.
Plenty of Bloomfield homes still heat with oil. For those, the real choices are a new oil boiler, a gas conversion where a connection is possible, or a cold climate heat pump installation that carries most of the heating load while the boiler stays as backup. We price every option that applies to your house.
In Connecticut, the installer decides the rebate. A heat pump installed by a contractor outside the Energize CT Heat Pump Installer Network does not qualify at all. We are in that network. You file the rebate application, and we prepare the invoice and equipment details it asks for. Rebate amounts change, so we quote them from the current program, never from memory.
Where we work in Bloomfield
Calls come from every corner of town: the Blue Hills neighborhoods along Route 187 near the Hartford line, the center where Route 189 meets Route 178, the Cottage Grove Road corridor past the Cigna campus, and North Bloomfield, where the roads open up toward Penwood State Park and the Tariffville line. From our shop in Broad Brook it is a short run across the river and through Windsor.
Most of Bloomfield is on MDC water and sewer. A handful of neighborhoods in the north end run on small community water systems, and there we flush and inspect water heater tanks on a tighter schedule, because sediment builds faster.
What we do in Bloomfield
Boilers and baseboard
Repairs, tune-ups and boiler installation for the hot water systems that heat most of the older housing in town.
Ductless cooling
Mini split installation for homes with baseboard or radiators and no ducts, sized room by room.
Furnaces and central air
Matched replacements for the ducted houses from the 1960s on, with the ducts tested before anything is sized.
Water heaters and plumbing
Water heater service, leak detection and pipe repair, including tanks on the north end community water systems.
No heat, no cooling
Emergency HVAC repair any hour, with frozen pipe risk treated as the priority it is.
Credentials
NATE and HBDP certified technicians, Trane Comfort Specialist dealer, licensed and insured under CT LIC HTG #0398155/S1.
Bloomfield questions we get
Ductless mini splits are the usual answer. An outdoor unit feeds wall or ceiling heads in the rooms that need cooling, with a small line set instead of a duct run, and the baseboard heat stays exactly as it is. Most of the heads can also heat, which takes some load off the boiler in spring and fall.
Sometimes. Connecticut Natural Gas serves Bloomfield, but whether a main reaches your street, and what the connection involves, varies from house to house. If gas is available we price the conversion. If it is not, a cold climate heat pump with the existing boiler kept as backup is often the better comparison.
We answer the phone 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and dispatch from our shop in Broad Brook. Tell us whether you have any heat at all and whether pipes are at risk, and we set priority from there.
Yes. Water heaters, leak detection, pipe repair, fixtures and emergency plumbing all come out of the same shop. In older Bloomfield homes the two trades overlap often, since the boiler and the water heater usually share the same basement and the same age.
Tell us the year your house was built
That, plus what the system is doing, tells us most of what the visit will involve. Call and get a person, or pick a time online.