Carrboro grew up around a cotton mill, and the mill building on Weaver Street is now Carr Mill Mall. Many of the houses on the streets around it are small mill-era and mid-century homes where air conditioning was added decades after they were built. Those retrofits often mean ductwork squeezed into a shallow crawlspace, or a mix of window units and a mini-split. Newer neighborhoods north of town, off Homestead Road and Old Fayetteville Road, mostly have heat pumps from the 1990s and 2000s.
A large share of Carrboro residents rent. If you are a tenant, call your landlord or property manager before calling us. North Carolina General Statute 42-42 requires landlords to keep the heating and air conditioning they supply in good working order, so the repair is usually on them.
Common calls in Carrboro
- Heat pumps from the 2000s reaching the end of their life
- Crawlspace ducts that have come loose or collected moisture
- Mini-splits for additions and older homes without ducts
- Condensate drain backups in attic units during July and August