- 60 Hartsdale Rd, Rochester NY 14622
- 7am to 7pm · 7 days a week
- Call an owner: 585 454 8422
No heat in winter, no cool in a heat wave, busted lines. We answer the phone day or night, weekends included.
Fairport grew up around the Erie Canal, and the village housing is old. The median build year in the village is 1938, and more than half the homes went up before 1940. A great many of those were heated by oil long before gas mains reached every street, and plenty still are. Whether converting makes sense starts with one question, which is how close the nearest gas main actually is to your property.
In the built up village that main is often right there. Out toward the edges of Perinton and the more rural roads it may not be, and extending one is charged by the distance, which can cost more than the heating system itself. There is a second wrinkle here that is unique to Fairport. Much of the village buys electricity from Fairport Electric, its own municipal utility, rather than from RG&E. That does not change your gas supply, which still comes from the gas utility, but it does mean the numbers on a fuel comparison look different here than they do a few streets away. We work all of that out before recommending anything.
Justin VanCassele and Colby Baker run AmeriHeat together. Colby is a veteran. Both owners are on jobs every week across Rochester and Monroe, Wayne and Ontario Counties.
Give them a call. They actually pick up.
Which one fits depends on your street, your current system, and how long you plan to stay. We go through all three at the estimate.
The tank comes out, the gas line comes in, and we install a new gas furnace or boiler. No more deliveries, no more tank, no more watching oil prices in January. We install Heil, with Rheem as a higher end option. This is the right move when the main is already close, which in the village it often is.
If there is no main near you, extending one is usually not worth it. A modern oil system runs far better than one from the eighties or nineties, and we still service oil when a lot of shops around here dropped it. Sometimes this is simply the smarter money.
A heat pump heats and cools from one system and does not need a gas main at all. That matters more here than most places, because with Fairport Electric power it can pencil out differently than it would on RG&E rates. New York also runs incentive programs for qualifying heat pump installs. The rules change, so we tell you honestly where things stand rather than promise a number.
Ask us about our current offers when you call. We go over the details at your free estimate, no pressure, no gimmicks.
Putting in a complete new system in your Fairport home? Take $2000 off a full installation. Ask us about the details when you call or at your free in-home estimate.
On approved credit. Spread the cost of a new system over two years with no interest. Ask about eligibility when you call or when we do your estimate.
Offers and financing are subject to terms and conditions. On approved credit for financing. Ask for current details at your free in-home estimate. New York runs incentive programs for qualifying heat pump installations. The rules change, so we will tell you honestly where things stand rather than promise a figure.
People picture this as a bigger job than it is. If the main is at your street, the utility brings a service line to the house and sets a meter. We handle the equipment: removing the old oil unit, installing the new gas one, running the gas piping, and the venting. Most conversions are a day, sometimes two with chimney work. In an older Fairport home a high efficiency gas unit that vents out the side wall can leave the masonry chimney and the water heater on it needing attention, and we plan for that rather than discover it on the day.
The oil tank is its own decision. Once the conversion is done, that tank is no longer doing anything. An indoor tank can be drained and removed. An underground tank is a different situation and needs to be handled properly, because a leaking buried tank becomes an environmental and resale problem, and in a village of pre war homes buried tanks are not rare. We walk you through what your setup needs rather than leaving it for you to sort out later.
It comes down to three things: how close the main is, how old your system is, and how long you are staying. If your oil furnace is near the end and there is a main at the street, you were spending on heating anyway, so converting at once makes sense. If your system has years left and the main is a long run away, the math often does not work, and we will say so rather than sell you a job you did not need.
A lot of Rochester companies stopped servicing oil years ago, which means when you call them about your oil system the only answer available is to get off oil. We never stopped. We repair and maintain oil furnaces and boilers across Monroe County, so we have no reason to push you toward a conversion that does not help you. When we say converting is the right call, it is because the numbers actually work for your home.
Want to know if gas is an option at your address? Justin or Colby will come take a look.
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