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W.F. Smith is a family-owned heating and cooling company that serves Taylorsville, PA. Our shop at State Road in Northeast Philadelphia opened in 1946, and the Smith family still runs it.
Our office tells you the visit fee before we come out, and pricing a new system costs nothing. Central air, furnaces, heat pumps, and ductless equipment make up most of what we fix and install, along with building ducts and air filters. Boiler heat, oil burners, steam, and water heaters are work for someone else.
Lennox is the brand we install most for regular systems, and Mitsubishi Electric for ductless systems. Our technicians also service other big brands.
Taylorsville is the old name for the village at the river crossing, and the buildings around it date from the 1700s and 1800s. They sit low, close to the water, on lots that often hold more than one building. A house, a carriage house, and an addition built a hundred years later each need something different from a heating and cooling system.
Shade changes the math on a wooded lot near the river. The home takes in less heat through the afternoon, while the outdoor unit sits in fallen leaves and damp air the sun never quite dries out. We fix, replace, install, and take care of central air conditioners in the village. A technician tells you the price before any work begins.
Dirty outdoor coils, drain lines backed up into the pan, leaks along a long line running out to an outbuilding, and dead outdoor units are the usual problems. When we replace a system, measuring the home has to account for the shade and the dampness, since a shaded home with a wet cellar behaves nothing like its square footage would suggest.
Heat in a village home usually lives in a cellar you have to duck down into. Ceiling height, a floor close to the water table, and a chimney built for something else decide what fits and how it vents outside.
Gas furnace repairs, replacements, new installs, and the fall check-up are all ours. A no-heat call here usually ends at a problem starting the flame, a flame sensor, a safety switch, or a filter nobody has changed. We raise equipment up off a damp floor on a stand or a pad instead of setting it right on the concrete.
None of our work covers boiler heat, steam, oil burners, or water heaters, and plenty of older homes here run on one of those. Cooling in a home heated that way is still something we design and install.
Outbuildings are where heat pumps really earn their keep here. A carriage house or a converted shed is a small space sitting a long way from the main equipment. One outdoor unit and one indoor unit heat and cool it entirely on their own.
New heat pumps still hold useful output well below freezing, which makes one a real answer in a building that never had heat before. Where a gas furnace is already in the main house, we can pair it with a heat pump that hands off based on the outside temperature. On low ground, how high the unit sits matters as much as which model it is, so the outdoor unit goes up on a stand.
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 practical answer in most of these buildings, and the reason is the floor more than the walls. Hand-built floor joists, low cellar ceilings, and rooms added a hundred years apart leave no clear path for a main duct. The whole job is one small hole per indoor unit, plus a level spot outside for the outdoor unit.
Mitsubishi Electric is the brand we install most for ductless systems. A system with several indoor units can cover a main house and a converted outbuilding on separate thermostats, which is the usual shape of a job here.
Trouble shows up in the cellar first here, since that is where the equipment lives and where the dampness settles. 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 we tell you that price before anyone heads out. Customers with a maintenance plan get seen first.
This is a small place, and the work still changes from one lot to the next.
The rest of Upper Makefield Township, including the preserved land further inland, is covered on our Washington Crossing page. We also work in Yardley, New Hope, Newtown, and more than 20 other communities across Bucks and Montgomery Counties, plus Lambertville, New Jersey.
Buildings from the 1700s and 1800s close to the road, where nothing routes the obvious way.
Damp air, tight access, and placement that has to stay clear of the path.
Older buildings on ground everyone can see, where where things go gets agreed before ordering.
Heavy shade, fallen leaves, and outdoor coils that need washing more than once a year.
Drier ground and newer homes, most now on a second or third system.
A carriage house, a studio, or a room over a garage, each priced as its own zone.
W.F. Smith has worked in 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 a village like this, our experience shows up in small decisions. We have set equipment high enough to stay clear of a wet floor, run lines out to outbuildings that had never carried heat before, and cooled rooms whose floors would not take a duct. 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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