Services · Furnaces & boilers
Furnaces and boilers, repaired and replaced
Half the basements in the Merrimack Valley hold a furnace or boiler that's older than the homeowner. We keep them running, and when it's genuinely time, we replace them without drama.
Repair vs. replace
We fix first. Replacement has to earn it.
A furnace or boiler that won't start is usually a failed part, not a failed system — igniters, circulator pumps, zone valves, control boards. We diagnose it, quote the repair, and fix it. Nobody standing in your basement should be working on commission, and nobody here is.
That said, some machines are done, and pretending otherwise wastes your money one repair at a time. The signs we treat as end-of-life:
- A cracked heat exchanger on a furnace. That one's not negotiable — it can put combustion gases in your air.
- A boiler that's rusting through or leaking from the sections, not the fittings.
- Two or more real repairs in the last couple of heating seasons, with the next one already looming.
- Rooms that never warm up evenly no matter how the system is tuned.
- Short cycling — firing and quitting over and over — on equipment past its service life.
When replacement is the answer, you get options in writing — like-for-like swap, higher-efficiency equipment, or a different direction entirely — with the trade-offs of each spelled out.
Getting off oil
Oil conversions, both directions that make sense
A lot of homes around here still heat with oil — a tank in the basement, deliveries all winter, and a price per gallon you can't control. When an oil system reaches end-of-life, that's the natural moment to switch fuels, and there are two sensible directions:
Oil to gas
If your street has a gas main and your house has service, a gas furnace or boiler is a straightforward conversion with fuel that arrives by pipe instead of truck. We handle the equipment, venting, and permits, and coordinate the utility work.
Oil to electric — the heat pump route
The other path is skipping combustion entirely: retire the oil system and heat with acold-climate heat pump. No tank, no deliveries, no burner service, and you gain summer cooling in the same project. It isn't right for every house — we'll run the load numbers and tell you honestly whether yours is a good candidate, and whether keeping any backup heat makes sense.
No heat? That's an emergency here. Call now.
A dead heating system in a Massachusetts January isn't a wait-until-Monday problem — it's frozen pipes waiting to happen. We answer the phone around the clock, every day, all winter.
Get a straight answer on your heating system
Tell us what's going on with your heat or AC. We'll come out, take real measurements, and give you a straight number in writing — no pressure, no mystery line items.