HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical
in Alta, UT

Alta sits at roughly 4,600 ft and lives in IECC Zone 5B — cold, dry winters and hot, dry summers. Nameplate AC capacity derates about 18% from sea level, which is why builder-spec systems here feel undersized on 92°F afternoons. Furnaces also need high-altitude kits to burn cleanly — our Manual J includes elevation correction on every replacement. Winter design lows hit 23°F, so we spec heat pumps with properly sized backup rather than single-stage gas furnaces that short-cycle.

Alta water is very hard (20+ gpg) on a municipal supply. Unsoftened hard water cuts water-heater life 20–30% by scale, slows tankless flow rates, and leaves film on glass and fixtures. A properly sized ion-exchange softener plus under-sink reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is our baseline plumbing package here, and we match softener capacity to measured grains-of-hardness plus gallons-per-person-per-day — not a one-size spec sheet.

Housing stock in Alta is mixed, so our electrical work ranges from panel upgrades on 1970s ranches to EV-charger and heat-pump circuit adds in newer builds — plus a steady stream of grandfathered FPE Stab-Lok panels that need to come out for insurance reasons.