Furnace Repair in Brooklyn's Bungalows
Brooklyn grew from about 1,100 people in 1940 to more than 13,000 by 1970 (Brooklyn's postwar growth). The county's 2020 master plan describes most houses as older bungalow-style homes with two or three bedrooms, and the average Brooklyn house is just 1,189 square feet (Brooklyn's bungalow-style houses). The plan counts 77.9 percent of homes built before 1970 and only 5.1 percent built in 1990 or later.
With so few new houses, almost every heating and cooling system in Brooklyn is a replacement set into an older house. The furnace may be a few years old while the gas line, the flue and the ductwork around it date from the 1950s, and many repairs come from that mismatch rather than from the new equipment itself.
Small houses mean small furnaces in tight basements. The duct runs are short, but the returns are often just one or two grilles, and a furnace swapped in at a higher size than the house needs will short cycle: it heats the rooms fast, shuts off, cools, and starts again a few minutes later. That wears out igniters and relays and leaves the far bedroom colder than the living room.
Adding and Fixing Central Air in Small Brooklyn Houses
Where central air was added to one of these houses, the coil sits on top of the furnace and the line set runs through the basement wall to a condenser beside the house. In a 1,200 square foot house there is little room around the furnace to work on a coil, and a coil sized too large for the blower can freeze up on humid summer days. Gas heats about 78 percent of homes and electric heat about 19 percent (Census housing data for Brooklyn), so some houses and apartments also run electric furnaces.
Brooklyn Home Repair List
- Short cycling from oversized furnaces and small return air paths
- Igniters and relays worn out by frequent starts
- Frozen evaporator coils on central air added to the furnace
- Cramped coil and blower access in small basements
- Electric furnaces in apartments and rentals
Brooklyn Streets and Landmarks
Brooklyn borders Cleveland on three sides and Parma to the south. Ridge Road, Memphis Avenue, Tiedeman Road and Brookpark Road are the main streets, along with I-480. Landmarks include Memphis Kiddie Park on Memphis Avenue, the John M. Coyne Recreation Center, Brooklyn High School and the Memphis Avenue entrance to Big Creek Reservation at Tiedeman Road.
Brooklyn Heating and Cooling Services
Each page covers one kind of repair:
- Furnace repair in Brooklyn
- Heating repair in Brooklyn
- HVAC repair in Brooklyn
- AC repair in Brooklyn
- emergency furnace repair in Brooklyn
Bordering pages: Old Brooklyn to the east and Parma to the south.