Durham's houses span more than a century of building. Trinity Park, Watts-Hillandale and Old West Durham have homes from the 1910s through the 1940s, many heated by gas furnaces and cooled by systems added long after construction. South Durham along the Chapel Hill line, around Southpoint and Woodcroft, has larger homes from the 1980s onward with heat pumps and often two systems, one for each floor.
In a two-system house, if the upstairs unit quits and the downstairs still runs, the house stays livable. That repair can usually wait for a weekday rate instead of an after-hours fee.
Common calls in Durham
- Gas furnace repair in the older neighborhoods north and west of downtown
- Upstairs systems failing in two-system homes in south Durham
- Duct repair in 1920s houses with retrofitted air conditioning
- Replacement quotes on 15-year-old heat pumps in subdivisions off NC 54 and NC 55