Furnace Installation & Replacement in Ridgewood, Queens

• Furnace replacement: removing a worn-out or failing furnace and installing a new one, connected, tested and ready for the heating season.
• Sizing from the house, not the old label: we size the new furnace from your floor area, walls, windows and the floors it heats. The old unit may have been too big from the start.
• Venting in attached buildings: with neighbors on both sides, exhaust either goes up the chimney or out through the front or back wall. We work out which route is safe and practical for your building.
• Standard or high-efficiency: an 80 percent AFUE furnace can often use an existing chimney, while a condensing furnace rated 90 percent or more needs PVC venting and a condensate line. We explain what each choice means for your home.
• Ductwork checks and changes: confirming the supply and return ducts can handle the new furnace’s airflow, and adjusting them where they can’t. This comes up often in houses converted from radiators to forced air.
• Electric furnaces and air handlers: replacing electric units in homes and apartments that don’t heat with gas.
• Thermostat and controls: a new thermostat wired to the furnace and set to your schedule.
• Repair-or-replace assessment: an honest look at your current furnace’s age, heat exchanger and repair history, so the decision rests on facts.

How a furnace installation visit works

1. Start with a phone call. Tell us how old the furnace is, what it’s doing and what kind of building you have. That call costs nothing and helps us plan the visit.
2. Site visit. A technician measures the rooms, checks the chimney or vent path, looks over the ducts and works out how the new furnace will get into the basement. We charge for this visit, as we do for any work at your home.
3. Options and a price. You get one or two furnace options that suit the house, each with its installed price, before you commit to anything.
4. Installation day. The crew removes the old unit, places the new furnace, hooks up the venting and ducts, and wires the controls and thermostat.
5. Start-up and walkthrough. We fire the furnace, run it through full heating cycles, check the exhaust and airflow, and show you where the filter goes and how the thermostat works.

Heating in Ridgewood: Row Houses, Shared Walls and Narrow Basements

Ridgewood is known for its rows of attached brick buildings, two to six families each, many of them built in the early 1900s. Boilers and radiators heat a lot of them. Furnaces tend to show up where an owner converted the house to forced air or added ductwork later, and those ducts were fitted around walls and beams that were never planned for them. Before a new furnace goes in, we check that the returns and supply runs can carry its airflow without noise or cold rooms.

The harder questions are space and venting. Basements here are often narrow, and shared side walls mean a high-efficiency vent has to leave through the front or back of the building. An older masonry chimney that served a bigger, older furnace may need a liner before it can safely vent a new one. We also plan around tight basement stairs and scarce parking on the blocks off Myrtle Avenue and Fresh Pond Road, so we know how the old furnace comes out and the new one goes in before installation day.

Heating, Cooling & Electric Solutions (HCE) installs and replaces gas and electric furnaces in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, for row houses, multi-family buildings and single-family homes, working from its office at 188-04 64th Ave in Fresh Meadows. Each Ridgewood furnace job starts with sizing the unit to the house and choosing a venting route that suits the neighborhood’s attached brick buildings. To talk through a furnace replacement in Ridgewood, call HCE at (917) 599-1006.