Furnace Repair in Portland

Portland is Maine's largest city and its housing stock runs the full range — Victorian-era row houses on the Western Prom, mid-century brick apartment buildings on Munjoy Hill, and newer condos downtown. A lot of this city was built before 1950, which means furnaces and ductwork that are seriously old. The Old Port draws tourists but the residential neighborhoods are where the real furnace work is. Dense urban blocks mean we're often working in tight basements with original cast-iron equipment.

A broken furnace in Portland in January is not a small problem. Temperatures drop well below freezing here, and a lot of the housing stock in neighborhoods like Parkside and Woodfords Corner was built in the 1950s and 1960s with older heating systems that have already seen a lot of hard winters. Oil and gas furnaces in homes that old have parts that wear out, crack, or fail without much warning. When that happens, you need someone who can look at the actual equipment and tell you what's wrong.

We start with a real inspection — not a quote over the phone based on nothing. A technician looks at the heat exchanger, the burner, the igniter, the flue, and the controls before anything gets replaced, because swapping parts without diagnosing the problem is how homeowners end up paying twice.