Heat that quits is our busiest call. Usually it's fixable today.
Furnaces, boilers, forced hot air and hot water systems — repaired, replaced and serviced across Medford, Malden and Greater Boston since 1990.
Licensed & insured · MA HIC #161190 · Serving Greater Boston since 1990
Signs your heating system needs attention
You don't need to diagnose it yourself — but knowing what you're seeing makes the call easier.
Some rooms never warm up
Uneven heat usually means airflow, zoning or a control problem — not necessarily a dying system.
It runs constantly, or in short bursts
Short-cycling wears equipment out fast and almost always points to a fixable underlying cause.
Banging, rumbling or squealing
Noise is information. A rumble on start-up, a bang in the pipes and a squeal from the blower are three different problems.
Heating bills climbing without a colder winter
Efficiency loss creeps in through dirty burners, bad combustion settings and duct leaks.
The burner won't stay lit
Ignition and flame-sensing faults are common and usually a same-visit repair.
It's over 15 years old and needs a big part
That's the point where repair-versus-replace math is worth running honestly.
What we do on heating
- No-heat emergency diagnosisWe find the actual cause instead of swapping parts until something works.
- Furnace and boiler repairIgnition, controls, circulators, zone valves, heat exchangers, venting.
- System replacement and installationProperly sized for the house, installed so it can be serviced later.
- Gas and oil heatBoth — including oil burner service and cleaning, which is in-house.
- Thermostats, zoning and controlsIncluding the retrofits that finally fix the cold room upstairs.
- Annual heating maintenanceThe fall check that keeps you off the January emergency list.
Repair or replace?
The honest answer depends on three things: the age of the equipment, what specifically failed, and how the rest of the system looks. A ten-year-old furnace with a bad igniter is a repair, full stop. A twenty-year-old unit with a cracked heat exchanger is not a repair — it's a safety issue.
Where it gets genuinely debatable is the middle: a fifteen-year-old system facing a major component. We'll tell you what the repair costs, what we'd expect the remaining life to be, and what a replacement would look like — and then it's your call, not a sales pitch. Consultations on replacement are free.
Request a free consultationHeating questions we get a lot.
How fast can you come out for a no-heat call?
Do you service oil heat?
Can you fix a cold room without replacing the system?
Is a consultation on a new system free?
Talk to the people who'll do the work.
Frankie and Hans answer their own phones. Tell them what's going on and they'll tell you straight what it takes to fix it.
Medford · Malden · Boston · Greater Boston · Free consultations on new systems