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W.F. Smith is a family-owned heating and cooling company that serves Oxford Valley, PA, inside Falls Township in lower Bucks County. Our shop has been on State Road in Northeast Philadelphia since 1946.
Our office tells you the visit fee before we come out, and estimates for new systems are free. We work on air conditioners, gas heat, heat pumps, ductless systems, building ducts, and indoor air quality.
Here is what we do not do, because in Falls Township it shapes the whole conversation. Many homes here heat through copper tubing built right into the concrete floor, and that kind of heat runs off a boiler. We do not work on boilers, water heaters, oil equipment, or steam systems.
What we can do for these homes is everything on the cooling side and everything a heat pump can carry. A home from the Levittown building era sits on a concrete slab with no basement, and in most cases no ducts at all. That one fact makes a ductless system the obvious answer here, not a compromise. Lennox is the brand we install most for regular systems, and Mitsubishi Electric for ductless systems.
Cooling an Oxford Valley home is a planning job before it is an install job. There is no basement to tuck equipment into and usually no ducts to connect to. We fix, replace, install, and take care of central air conditioners where ducts already exist. A technician tells you the price before any work starts.
Where a past owner did add ducts, we see the results of the path they took. Flexible duct run through a shallow attic loses cooling power under a hot roof, and rooms at the far end never keep up. Refrigerant leaks, a frozen coil, a failed part, and an outdoor unit that will not start make up most of the repair calls we get out here in a normal summer.
Heating in Oxford Valley splits into two homes that look the same from the street. One has heat built into the floor and runs on a boiler, which is outside what we work on, and we say so on the first call. The other has a gas furnace added at some point after the home was built, and that we do handle.
A gas furnace is a different matter, and we check, fix, swap, and tune those up every year before winter. Most no-heat calls come from a problem starting the flame, a control board, a blower motor, or a filter so dirty it blocked the return air.
Boilers, water heaters, oil systems, and steam systems all stay outside what we work on. Where the floor itself is the heat source, cooling and heat pumps are what we can offer.
A heat pump is the most useful thing we can bring to a home with heat built into the floor. It heats and cools from one piece of equipment, needs no vent pipe and no gas line, and goes in without touching the floor at all. Where the floor heat still works, a heat pump can run alongside it and take over the whole cooling season. Where the floor heat has failed, a heat pump becomes the heating system itself, and the old floor heat just stays where it is.
The outdoor unit and the home’s electrical panel decide the practical details. We check the electrical service before an all-electric plan goes on paper, and we confirm what Falls Township requires for the permit before scheduling. The pad then needs level ground, open space around the coil, and a short path for the refrigerant line.
We install, repair, replace, and take care of heat pumps. Rebates from the equipment makers and the Electrical Association of Philadelphia often apply, and payment plans are available for some jobs.
Ductless is not a fallback option here. It is the straightforward answer for a home with no basement and no ducts, since there is no cheap way to add either one. Each indoor unit needs only a small hole through the wall and a line back to one outdoor unit, so nothing gets framed and no ceiling has to come down. The floor and whatever is built into it never get touched.
Mitsubishi Electric is the brand we install most for ductless systems. One indoor unit suits a single room that has always run warm, and a system with several indoor units can cover a whole Levittown-era floor plan.
A home with heat in the floor and nothing else installed has no backup when the cooling quits in July. That is the call we get out here on a Saturday evening. W.F. Smith offers after-hours help for emergencies. We do not run regular service around the clock.
Our office answers calls Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. After that, an answering service passes the job to the technician on call, who calls you back.
Evening and Saturday visits cost more. Sundays and holidays cost even more than that, and the technician tells you that price before heading out. Customers with a maintenance plan get seen first.
Falls Township covers more ground than the name Oxford Valley suggests.
We also cover Langhorne, Morrisville, Yardley, and more than 20 other communities across Bucks and Montgomery Counties, plus Lambertville, New Jersey.
Homes set among the shopping and the roads around it, where access and noise shape where equipment goes.
Post-war single-level homes on concrete slabs, most still without any ducts.
Whole streets built to the same handful of plans, so one problem turns up house after house.
A small village of farmhouses, a general store, and a post office that stood here before the mall did.
This building era spans several townships, and a permit follows the township, not the mailing address.
W.F. Smith has worked in lower Bucks County homes since 1946, and the Smith family still owns the company and works in the office. Our five owners have more than 140 years of work experience between them. Our main technicians have worked here for over 20 years each on average. We hold Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor license PA003700 and have been accredited by the BBB since 1991.
In Oxford Valley, that long history mostly shows up as knowing where equipment can actually live. We have fit air handlers into closets that gave up six inches of shelf space, run refrigerant lines along soffits so no ceiling had to come down, and added cooling to additions that had never been on any system before. Parts on repair work come with a one-year warranty, and new equipment is registered for its full warranty from the maker.