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Heating, cooling and air for Eastside houses
Repairs, replacements, added cooling and ventilation work in Kirkland, Juanita, Bellevue and Redmond.
Three kinds of heat, three kinds of fault
Gas furnaces fail at the ignition end more often than anywhere else. Heat pumps usually fail quietly — a defrost that never completes, a backup element doing work the compressor should be doing. Electric baseboard and wall heaters rarely fail at all; they just cost more than anyone wants.
We work on all three, and where the answer is "this is a control setting rather than a repair", you get told that instead of a quote.
Adding cooling to a house that never had it
There are three honest routes, and the right one depends on what is already in the house rather than on what is cheapest to install.
- Heat pump on existing ductsWhere a furnace and decent ductwork already exist, this is usually the best value — it also replaces most of the heating.
- Ductless headsFor houses with no ducts, or for one or two rooms that are the actual problem. Quiet, efficient, and visible on the wall.
- Ducted, room by roomWhere the ducts exist but cannot carry the airflow. Slower and more invasive, and sometimes the only honest answer.
- What we will not doBolt cooling onto ductwork that cannot move the air and call it done. It fails on the hottest week and nobody is pleased.
Damp is usually a ventilation problem
Moisture is produced in the house — showers, cooking, laundry, breathing. If it cannot get out it condenses on the coldest surface it can find. Most Eastside houses we visit have a bathroom fan that has never moved the air its label claims, a duct that sags, or a run to nowhere.
We measure what the fan actually extracts, fix the duct rather than replacing the fan, and only talk about mechanical ventilation once the simple parts are right.
What a quote should tell you
- What was measuredThe house, not the badge on the old equipment.
- What happens to the ductsTested, sealed, altered or left alone — stated either way.
- The options, side by sideUsually two or three, with what each changes and what it does not.
- What is excludedElectrical work, permits, drywall, anything found once panels come off.
