HVAC in Portland is heat for a mild wet winter and the cooling a lot of these houses never got. Furnaces in closets and crawls, floor furnaces, and a few registers were enough until a heat wave put the upstairs out of bounds. Heat pumps show up because the original plan had no answer for that afternoon. Say whether you are calling about heat that quit, rooms that cooked, or ducts that sweat and sag under the floor.
If you smell trouble at a flue, stop the unit. Combustion air and the exchanger come before any talk of comfort. Crawl ducts in this climate sweat, drip, and feed a space that is already flirting with rot. Bedrooms tucked under a bungalow roof tell the truth first. Ask what was ruled out before a part is named.
Ask for a load that includes the glass, the shade from firs, and the fact that cooling may never have been ducted. Copying the old label copies the original shrug. Labels compare a test and are not a promise about your fuel. Matched equipment matters if heat and cooling are changing together. A window unit in one room will not rescue the rest of the house, and it will not dry a crawl that the ducts are already wetting.
Service the equipment before the wet season hides the terminations and before the next heat wave proves the upstairs. Rooms over a garage or over a vented crawl expose lazy ducts as soon as the weather stops being gentle. A thermostat in a sunny front room lies about the back bedrooms. Mention the room that never catches up. Say if the house is uncomfortable now, because a polite winter is a bad reason to trust a tired exchanger.
Say the part of Portland, heat or cooling, and whether you are ahead of the weather or already miserable. Mention sweating ducts, a closet furnace, or a house built with almost no cooling. If the upstairs cooked, say that first. Mild is not a promise the next stretch will repeat. Call the number on this page.