Montclair is electrifying its old houses. We do the mechanical half.
No town in our service area moves toward heat pumps faster than Montclair — and no town's housing makes the conversion more interesting, because most of it was built before 1940.
The conversion, done house by house.
A Montclair electrification project is never generic. The house has radiators worth keeping, plaster worth protecting, and an electrical panel with opinions about how much new load it will accept. Our conversions respect all three: cold-climate heat pumps sized by load calculation for the house as it is, panel capacity confirmed with the electrician before the proposal is final, and the radiators retained as a reserve where the owner wants dual fuel rather than a leap. Owners who want to convert in stages — cooling first, heating at the boiler's retirement — get the staging plan in writing.
Cooling without carnage.
For the houses not converting yet, the cooling question is the same one Montclair has asked for decades: how to get central air into a 1915 colonial without opening the walls. Our answers are the established ones, matched to the specific house — high-velocity systems threaded through closets and cavities as a certified Unico installer, and ductless zones where a floor or a studio over the garage needs its own control.
Around the six stations.
Near the town's train stations the stock shifts to two-families, condominiums, and mixed-use buildings with apartments over storefronts, and we work across all of it — including the small commercial systems behind the storefronts themselves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Montclair questions, where the conversion has to respect the century home around it.
Can a heat pump really heat a drafty 1920s Montclair colonial?
Properly sized, yes — and the sizing is the whole game. The load calculation accounts for the house's actual envelope, not an average, and where the number argues for it we recommend a dual-fuel setup that keeps the boiler as the deep-winter reserve. The proposal states which configuration the house supports.
Will the conversion require an electrical upgrade?
Sometimes. Panel capacity is checked during the assessment, not discovered during installation, and where an upgrade is needed it appears in the project plan from the start.
We want to keep our radiators. Does that rule anything out?
No. Keeping radiators is common in Montclair and often wise — they remain the heating while cooling arrives separately, or they become the reserve in a dual-fuel conversion. Nothing about adding modern equipment requires removing them.
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