Furnace repair, replacement and tune-ups in Stittsville

The old village along Stittsville Main Street has houses from the early 1900s onward, a few still with the kind of retrofitted ductwork that comes with a furnace that is too big for the house. Crossing Bridge and the streets around it were built in the 1990s, and Fairwinds and Jackson Trails from the 2000s into the 2010s, so most of Stittsville is builder-grade high-efficiency furnaces that are now between ten and twenty years old. The pattern of repairs is the same as in Kanata next door: igniters and flame sensors first, inducer motors and control boards later.

Beyond the subdivisions, toward Richmond Road, Fernbank and the concessions to the west, the gas mains stop and the properties run on propane. A propane furnace, boiler or water heater needs the right orifices and regulator settings and a technician who knows the conversion, and we carry the parts for both fuels. Older farmhouses out that way sometimes still have oil, and converting them to propane is a job we do regularly.

Stittsville is the most exposed of the western suburbs, with open ground in every direction, and the wind takes a toll on west-facing walls and on high-efficiency vent terminations. During a tune-up we check the intake and exhaust for drifting and ice, and when we replace a furnace we size it to a heat loss that allows for the exposure rather than to the label on the old unit. Enbridge natural gas serves the village and the subdivisions; propane serves the rest.

• Stittsville Main and the old village: older homes, retrofitted ducts
• Crossing Bridge, Fairwinds, Jackson Trails: 1990s to 2010s builder-grade furnaces at ten to twenty years
• Rural edges toward Richmond and Fernbank: propane furnaces and water heaters, oil conversions