Heating

Heating & HVAC

Boilers, furnaces, in-floor radiant, baseboard and heat pump systems — serviced, repaired and replaced. Heat is not optional here between November and April.

Heating & HVAC

We'd rather catch a failing circulator in October than replace a frozen system in February. That isn't a sales line — a heating system that fails in a cold snap takes the plumbing with it, and a house that drops below freezing is a much bigger job than the part that started it.

Booking a service before the heating season is the cheapest thing you can do for a boiler or furnace. It's also the difference between a scheduled appointment at a time that suits you and an emergency call-out on the coldest night of the year.

Systems we work on

Boilers — service, repair and replacement
Furnaces and forced-air systems
Hot water baseboard and radiator circuits
In-floor radiant heating
Heat pump systems [CONFIRM SCOPE]
Circulator pumps, zone valves and thermostats
Expansion tanks, air separators and system bleeding
Pre-season maintenance and safety checks

Call (902) 350-6153

Worth a call

Signs your heating needs attention

Kettling is not just a noise

That rumble like a kettle coming to the boil usually means scale or sludge in the heat exchanger, which makes the system work harder and shortens its life. It's a symptom worth acting on early rather than living with.

Signs your heating needs attention

Radiators or baseboards cold at one end of the run
Banging, kettling or knocking when the system fires
The boiler or furnace short-cycles — on and off every few minutes
Fuel use climbing with no change in the weather
Repeated ignition lockouts or a pilot that won't hold
Rooms that never reach the thermostat setting
Visible rust, staining or damp around the appliance

Before the cold

Pre-season maintenance is the cheap version

A maintenance visit is a fraction of the cost of a mid-winter breakdown, and it's the only time anyone actually looks at the parts that fail quietly — the expansion tank, the pressure relief valve, the flue, the circulator.

Book it in the autumn while there's room in the schedule. In January everyone calls at once, and emergencies come first.

Combustion, flue and safety checks
System pressure, bleeding and expansion tank condition
Circulator, zone valve and thermostat operation
Filters and airflow on forced-air systems
A straight answer on how much life the appliance has left

Recent work

Heating jobs we've finished

Real installs from around the South Shore.

Old floor-standing oil-fired boiler with aging copper piping and a green expansion tank — **Oil boiler to high-efficiency condensing** An aging floor-standing oil boiler swapped for a wall-hung condensing unit — four circulators, new expansion tank, fully re-piped zones, and the floor space back.

Wall-hung condensing boiler with four circulators, expansion tank and new copper piping replacing the old oil boiler — **Oil boiler to high-efficiency condensing** An aging floor-standing oil boiler swapped for a wall-hung condensing unit — four circulators, new expansion tank, fully re-piped zones, and the floor space back.

Wall-hung condensing boiler feeding a copper manifold with five zone valves, circulators and an expansion tank — **Multi-zone boiler install** A wall-hung condensing boiler running five separately valved heating zones off one copper manifold.

Navien wall-hung boiler and in-floor radiant manifold with PEX loops in a new-build mechanical room — **In-floor radiant, new build** Boiler, expansion tank and radiant manifold set out on one wall in a new build, with the PEX loops run and labelled before the finishes went on.

Common questions

Before you book

When should I book a heating service?

Late summer through autumn, before the first real cold. That's when there's room in the schedule, and it's the whole point of maintenance — finding the failing part while it's still an appointment rather than an emergency.

My boiler is old. Repair it or replace it?

Depends on the appliance, what's failed, and what parts availability looks like. We'll tell you what a repair realistically buys you on a unit of that age, what a replacement would cost and what it would save in fuel, and which we'd choose in your position.

What does it mean when the system keeps losing pressure?

Something is letting water out or air in — a weeping joint, a failed expansion tank, or a pressure relief valve that's passing. Topping it up over and over treats the symptom; it's worth finding the cause before it becomes a bigger repair.

Do you service heat pumps?

Heat pump work is on our list, but the exact scope of what we take on is [CONFIRM SCOPE] — call and we'll tell you straight away whether it's a job for us.

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