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W.F. Smith is a family-owned heating and cooling company that serves New Hope, PA. 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 furnaces, heat pumps, ductless systems, building ducts, and indoor air quality.
We do not work on boilers, water heaters, oil systems, or steam systems. That comes up here more than in most towns we cover. Lennox is the brand behind most of our regular installs, and Mitsubishi Electric behind most of our ductless work. Our technicians also service other big brands.
New Hope is a small, old borough, with two districts listed on the National Register. Its buildings are stone and wood from the 1700s and 1800s, many with a shop at street level and living space above. A building like that was finished long before anyone thought about a duct. Every path for air or refrigerant has to be found, not designed from scratch.
Cooling an old New Hope building starts with a walk around the outside. Where the outdoor unit can sit decides the refrigerant line route and the indoor layout. We fix, replace, install, and take care of central air conditioners here. A technician tells you the price before any work starts.
The usual calls are refrigerant leaks along long lines, a frozen coil behind a blocked return, an outdoor unit that will not start, and drain lines clogged with dirt. When we replace a system, the cooling need often comes from the walls more than the windows, since two feet of stone soaks up heat all afternoon and gives it back in the evening. Measuring by square footage alone misses that badly.
Heating an eighteenth-century building starts with what is already there. Many of these homes run on a boiler, and a boiler is not something we work on. We tell you that at the start of the call, long before anyone is sent out.
Where a gas furnace is in place, we repair, replace, install, and tune it up each year. Most no-heat calls here come from a problem starting the flame, a flame sensor, a control board, or a thermostat out of calibration.
We also leave water heaters, oil systems, and steam systems alone. A building running any of those can still have its air conditioning designed and installed by us.
A heat pump is often the first modern heating one of these buildings can actually take on. Where the heat is a boiler we do not touch, a ductless heat pump adds a system we can service without disturbing anything else. New heat pumps still work well even when it is well below freezing outside. Pairing a heat pump with a gas furnace only applies where a gas furnace is already in place.
The outdoor unit is the part that takes real thought. Back yards, service alleys, a flat roof over a back addition, and screened pads on the ground are the usual options. We confirm the borough’s review and permit requirements before any work is scheduled, since two districts here sit on the National Register.
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 the reason most of these buildings can be cooled at all. A small hole through a stone wall is the entire change needed, and it is drilled wherever the floor plan and the outside of the building allow. Indoor units sit high on a wall, in a ceiling box, or low along the baseboard. Nothing gets framed and no ceiling comes down.
Mitsubishi Electric is the brand we install most for ductless systems. One indoor unit suits a single upstairs room, and a system with several indoor units can serve a shop below and an apartment above on separate thermostats.
A building that sits empty between visits fails quietly, and the owner finds out when they arrive rather than right away. That is the usual New Hope emergency call. 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.
The borough is small, and the work still changes block by block.
We also cover Morrisville, Yardley, and more than 20 other communities across Bucks and Montgomery Counties, plus Lambertville, New Jersey across the bridge.
The business center of town, on the National Register, where most buildings hold a shop below and living space above.
Stone and wood homes on the National Register, where any outside work is planned before it is priced.
Buildings set close to the towpath, where damp air and tight access shape both the equipment and how we get it in.
The millpond and waterfall area near the Bucks County Playhouse, and the older homes around them.
Bigger lots and newer homes, where a regular ducted system is actually possible.
W.F. Smith has worked in Bucks County buildings 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 New Hope, that long history shows up in how carefully the first visit goes. We have drilled through stone walls without disturbing the outside face, placed outdoor units where the street never sees them, and cooled rooms above busy shop floors that run warm all day. Parts on repair work come with a one-year warranty, and new equipment is registered for its full warranty from the maker.
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