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W.F. Smith is a family-owned heating and cooling company that serves Jenkintown, PA. We install, fix, and take care of heating and cooling for homes and small buildings across the whole borough. 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. Our work covers air conditioners, gas furnaces, heat pumps, ductless systems, building ducts, and indoor air quality. We do not work on boilers, water heaters, oil systems, or steam systems.
Lennox is the brand we install most for regular systems, and Mitsubishi Electric for ductless systems. We also service other big brands already sitting in these basements.
Jenkintown is a small borough, about half a square mile, small enough to walk across and packed tightly enough that it changes every job. It broke away from Abington Township in 1874 and has run itself ever since, so permits go to the borough office instead of a township office. York Road splits the borough in two: bigger standalone homes on the east side, and row homes, duplexes, and apartment buildings on the west.
A row home only gets sun on two sides, so its cooling need often comes back lower than its floor space would suggest. What it gains instead is length. A narrow floor plan puts the front room and the back room at opposite ends of one long duct run. We fix, replace, install, and take care of central air conditioners throughout the borough. A technician finds the problem and tells you the price before any work starts.
The repeat calls are an outdoor unit that will not start, ice building up on the indoor coil, a leak along a refrigerant line running outside, and water with nowhere to drain. When we replace a system, the old size on the label is the least useful number we have, since we measure the home fresh instead of guessing from what came before.
Outdoor space decides this conversation in the borough. There is usually only one workable spot for one outdoor unit, so the equipment has to fit that spot first. A heat pump earns its keep just on that count, covering both heating and cooling from that single piece of equipment. New heat pumps still work well even when it is well below freezing outside.
Small homes need small equipment, and the east side of York Road often needs something different from the west side. With a gas furnace staying in the basement, we can pair it with a heat pump that switches over based on the temperature outside.
Our crews 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.
Shared walls settle the ductless layout before anyone even looks at a catalog. A shared wall cannot have a hole cut through it, since the other side belongs to a neighbor, so every indoor unit has to go on a front wall, a back wall, or an inside wall connected to one of those. That leaves fewer spots than a standalone home would offer. Mitsubishi Electric is the brand we install most for ductless systems.
One indoor unit handles a single stubborn room, and a system with several indoor units can take on the whole home.
An after-hours call in the borough often comes with a second problem built in: where the truck is going to park. 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 details to the technician on call, who calls you back to ask what the system is doing.
Nights and Saturdays cost more. Sundays and holidays cost even more than that, and we tell you that price before anyone heads out. Customers with a maintenance plan get seen first. Let the dispatcher know whether the home has a driveway or only street parking.
Half a square mile changes character several times over.
We also cover Meadowbrook, Abington, Cheltenham Township, Elkins Park, and more than 20 other communities across Bucks and Montgomery Counties, plus Lambertville, New Jersey.
Shops below and homes above, where finding a spot for outdoor equipment is a visible choice everyone can see.
Bigger standalone homes on lots above the borough's average, with room for regular ducted equipment.
Row homes, duplexes, and apartment buildings packed close together, where ductless systems usually carry the job.
Borough streets running straight into township streets, so two neighbors can file their permits in two different offices.
The southern edge of the borough, where the homes shift toward stone and brick twins and semi-detached homes.
The walkable center of town, with the tightest access anywhere in the borough.
W.F. Smith has worked in Montgomery 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.
On a Jenkintown job, that long history shows up as knowing what a shared wall rules out right away. We have run refrigerant lines along the back of a home instead of through a wall, placed outdoor units so the noise lands on our own side of the property line, and added cooling to row homes that never had any ducts at all. Parts on repair work come with a one-year warranty, and new equipment is registered for its full warranty from the maker.