Heating and Cooling Repair Across Totowa
Totowa sits on Wayne's southeast border, with Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 46 running through it (Totowa, New Jersey overview). We repair heating and cooling equipment in houses across the borough, many of them older than most of Wayne's.
Services in Totowa: boiler repair, emergency boiler repair, furnace repair, AC repair, heat pump repair and ductless mini split repair.
Old Boilers and Radiators in Totowa Houses
Totowa's houses are older than Wayne's. Census figures put the median home at 1958, about 19 percent of homes were built before 1940 and about 56 percent before 1960 (Totowa housing data). Gas heats about 90 percent of homes.
Houses of that age that heat with a hot water or steam boiler need the same parts kept working. Circulator pumps, zone valves, expansion tanks and pressure relief valves wear out on hot water systems. Steam systems in prewar houses need radiator vents, main vents, low water cutoffs and sight glasses kept working. When a Totowa house heats one floor and not the next, the cause is usually trapped air, a stuck vent or a radiator pitched the wrong way rather than the boiler itself.
Central Air Added to Totowa Homes
Houses built before central air was common got it later. In boiler homes that usually means an air handler in the attic with ducts through the ceilings, or ductless heads on the walls. Attic air handlers in Totowa need their drain pans, condensate lines and float switches kept clear, or a clogged drain ends up as a stain on the ceiling below. Homes that moved to a furnace and central air often have ducts sized for heat only and a return that is too small. A return that small makes the blower strain, the coil freeze in July and the far bedrooms run warm.
Common Heating and AC Repairs in Totowa
- Circulator pumps and zone valves on hot water boilers
- Radiator vents, main vents and low water cutoffs on prewar steam systems
- Expansion tanks and dripping relief valves
- Attic air handler drains and float switches
- Capacitors and contactors on outdoor condensers
- Ductless heads added to boiler-heated houses
In an older boiler room, a replacement circulator, expansion tank or zone valve has to fit the piping that is already there. Near-boiler piping on older systems is often black iron or copper that has been patched over the years, and a leak at a fitting is a common reason a hot water boiler keeps losing pressure. A boiler that needs water added every week has a leak somewhere, even when no puddle shows.
Totowa borders Wayne, Woodland Park and Little Falls. We also cover North Haledon to the north. See the full Wayne service area.