Old Brooklyn Heating Repair in Pre-War Houses
Old Brooklyn is the Cleveland neighborhood directly north of Parma. Its south line is Brookpark Road, which is Parma's north border (Old Brooklyn neighborhood history). The main stretch of house building ran from the early 1900s to the 1950s (Old Brooklyn's early 1900s homes). In the Census tracts that cover the neighborhood, about 44 percent of homes were built in 1939 or earlier, and about three in four before 1960 (Census data for Old Brooklyn).
Houses from before the 1940s were not built around a modern forced-air furnace. Older houses here can have a hot water boiler feeding cast iron radiators, a furnace with long horizontal duct runs to the far rooms, or an old chimney flue lined for a furnace two generations back.
Up-and-Down Doubles: Two Furnaces Under One Roof
About 16 percent of homes in those tracts sit in two- to four-unit buildings, which on Cleveland's older streets include up-and-down doubles. A double usually has two separate furnaces in the basement, one per unit, with the upstairs unit's ducts and returns running up through the first floor walls. When the upstairs unit runs cold, the problem is often airflow in that long run rather than the furnace itself.
Old Brooklyn Repair List
- Hot water boiler repair: circulator pumps, expansion tanks, zone valves, pressure relief valves
- Radiator bleed valves and air trapped in the top floor
- Two furnaces in one basement in up-and-down doubles
- Weak airflow to second floor rooms from long duct runs
- Newer furnaces and central air in the 1980s and 1990s South Hills houses
Old Brooklyn Streets, South Hills and the Zoo
The neighborhood began as the hamlet of Brighton at Pearl Road and Broadview Road and joined Cleveland between 1905 and 1927. Shopping runs along Pearl, Broadview and State Roads. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Old Brooklyn sits inside the neighborhood, with the Brookside Reservation off Ridge Road at its north edge. The South Hills area around Schaaf Road and the Jennings Road area saw new houses in the 1980s and 1990s, so the furnaces and AC units there are a generation newer than on the streets near Pearl Road.
Old Brooklyn Furnace and AC Services
Boilers are covered under heating repair; forced-air systems under furnace and HVAC repair:
- Furnace repair in Old Brooklyn
- Heating repair in Old Brooklyn
- HVAC repair in Old Brooklyn
- AC repair in Old Brooklyn
- emergency furnace repair in Old Brooklyn
To the south across Brookpark Road is Parma; to the west across Ridge Road is the city of Brooklyn.