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Spokane · Inland Northwest

Two climates, one building, six months apart

Spokane asks a house to survive single digits in January and high nineties in July. We organise the work — and this site — around which of those you are dealing with today.

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A Spokane house with deep eaves and pines behind it under flat winter light

What is worth doing right now

Cooling season

Spokane summers have got long enough that air conditioning stopped being optional, and a lot of the equipment here was fitted for a milder decade.

  • Book the cooling check in AprilCoils, charge behaviour, airflow and electrical draw, done before the first hot week rather than during it.
  • Smoke season is part of summer nowFiltration is limited by what your system can carry. We measure static pressure before recommending any filter.
  • Ask about the upstairsMost two-storey complaints here are return sizing and attic duct losses, not capacity. Measurable, and usually cheaper than equipment.
The summer page

Heating season

The cold here is real and it lasts. Everything that fails in January was findable in October, which is the entire argument for booking a heating check.

  • Book the heating check in OctoberBurners, heat exchanger, flue, gas pressure, safeties and airflow — before the first genuinely cold night.
  • Ice dams start inside the houseWarm air leaking into a cold attic is what melts the snow that refreezes at the eave. Some of that is our work and some is not.
  • Know your heat pump's balance pointIf backup heat runs in mild weather, that is a settings problem and it shows up on the bill long before anybody notices.
The winter page
What we do

The work, both seasons

  • Service and repairFurnaces, heat pumps, air conditioning and rooftop units. Diagnosed with instruments, priced in writing, explained afterwards.
  • Planned maintenanceTwice a year for most buildings, once for most houses, written up against each unit. The plans page sets out exactly what is covered.
  • Ducts and airflowSealing, repairs and measurement — the single most common fix for a room that has never worked properly.
  • Filtration and ventilationStatic pressure measured first, then a filter or a cabinet chosen to suit it. Fresh-air routes in tighter houses.
  • ReplacementSized from the building with a load calculation and quoted with the duct work included.
  • Commercial plantPackaged units, splits, unit heaters and make-up air, on planned schedules with a record per site.
Houses and buildings

Both, and neither as an afterthought

Roughly half our week is houses and half is working buildings. The seasons run through both, which is why this site is split by season instead of by audience — a warehouse in January and a bungalow in January have more in common than a warehouse in January and a warehouse in July.

Both the winter and summer pages cover residential and commercial work properly, with a section each.

A gas furnace open in a basement with a technician's tools and meter on the floor
Questions

Before you call

Why is this site split by season instead of by residential and commercial?

Because a warehouse in January and a bungalow in January have more in common than a warehouse in January and the same warehouse in July. Both the winter and summer pages cover houses and buildings properly.

What causes ice dams?

Warm air getting into a cold attic melts snow on the upper roof; the water runs down to the cold eave and refreezes. The fix is stopping the heat getting up there, not working on the roof. Some of those heat paths are our trade and some are not — the ice dams page says which.

Can I fit a better filter for smoke season?

Only as far as your system can carry. A denser filter resists airflow, and past a point it means less air gets filtered at all. We measure static pressure and then say what grade is safe.

When should I book a check?

October for heating, April for cooling. Booked then it is a service visit; booked in January or July it is an emergency, and so is everybody else's.

My heat pump uses backup heat a lot. Is that normal?

In genuinely cold weather, yes. In mild weather it usually means the balance point or staging is set to bring it in too eagerly, which is a settings fix rather than a repair.

Which areas do you cover?

Spokane, Spokane Valley, Mead, Deer Park, Cheney, Liberty Lake and Airway Heights.

Where we are

North Spokane

808 E Francis Ave, Spokane, WA 99208

Spokane, Spokane Valley, Mead, Deer Park, Cheney, Liberty Lake and Airway Heights.

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