Middleburg Heights Furnace Repair, 1950s to 1970s
Middleburg Heights was farmland until the late 1940s. The city's own history says Southland Shopping Center in 1950 and Interstate 71 in 1959, with exits on Pearl Road and Bagley Road, turned it into a residential town (Middleburg Heights city history). It grew to 7,282 people in 1960 and 12,367 by 1970 (Middleburg Heights postwar growth). The Census median year built is 1969, with the 1960s and 1970s as the two biggest decades.
The county planning commission's master plan for the city makes the same point: housing here was largely built in the postwar boom of the 1950s, with a large increase through the 1960s and 1970s, the opposite of Cuyahoga County as a whole, where most houses went up before 1960 (the Middleburg Heights master plan). So Middleburg Heights has fewer pre-war boilers than Cleveland's west side and more 1960s and 1970s furnaces and original central air line sets.
A house from that era is on its second or third furnace and often its second central air system. Where the outdoor unit, the line set and the indoor coil were replaced at different times, a new condenser connected to an old coil is a common source of icing, weak cooling and repeated capacitor failures.
Townhome and Condo Systems in Middleburg Heights
About 13 percent of homes in Middleburg Heights are attached townhomes, the highest share around Parma, and about 26 percent are in buildings with five or more units (Census housing data for Middleburg Heights). Townhome furnaces often sit in a utility closet or a small basement room, with the condensers lined up on pads out back. A closet install runs warm, its filter is easy to forget, and the blower motor and the control board wear first.
Repair Work in Middleburg Heights
- Closet furnaces in townhomes: limit switches, blower motors, control boards
- Mismatched condensers and indoor coils from piecemeal AC replacements
- Gas furnace igniters, flame sensors and inducer motors in 1960s basements
- Electric furnaces in condos and apartments
- Condensate drain clogs on 90 percent furnaces
Middleburg Heights Roads and Landmarks
Pearl Road and Bagley Road are the main streets, with Engle Road, Smith Road and West 130th Street crossing residential blocks and I-71 exits at Pearl and Bagley. Southland, Georgetown Square, the community center on Bagley Road and Lake Isaac Waterfowl Sanctuary are local landmarks, and Lake Abram in Big Creek Reservation is the largest remaining glacial wetland in Cuyahoga County.
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Nearby: Parma Heights up Pearl Road and Brooklyn to the north.