HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Service in Salt Lake City

The Avenues and Capitol Hill are full of 100-year-old brick homes with radiator heat and no ductwork. High-velocity mini-duct systems and ductless mini-splits are often the only realistic path to central AC.

• Avenues and Capitol Hill homes with radiator heat and no ducts get central air through high-velocity mini-duct or ductless mini-split systems, without tearing out the radiators.
• Inversion season is the worst air in the country for stretches of January and February. MERV 13 filtration, a continuous-low blower and a HEPA bypass keep indoor PM2.5 down when outdoor readings run 2 to 4 times the EPA standard.
• Newer condos need cooling sized for urban heat and furnaces set up for 4,226 feet, not the factory default.

Pre-1940 SLC plumbing is still running galvanized trunk lines in places — we do a lot of PEX repipes when galvanized finally pinholes and the pressure drops.

• Pre-1940 galvanized trunk lines pinhole and choke pressure. We repipe in PEX once the galvanized finally gives out.
• City water runs about 18 grains. A softener and an annual flush are what keep a tank water heater from scaling itself to death.
• Older Salt Lake City basements hide slow leaks and aging shutoffs. We find and fix them before they become drywall work.

Avenues and Sugar House bungalows commonly still have cloth-wire and 60A fused service. A full rewire + 200A panel is a classic SLC heritage-home project.

• Cloth wiring and 60-amp fused service still show up in Avenues and Sugar House bungalows. A full rewire plus a 200-amp panel is a classic Salt Lake heritage-home project.
• Historic Victorian homes need panel modernization before they can safely carry central air, a range and a dryer at once.
• EV chargers and heat pumps on a 100-year-old service start with a load calculation, then the panel, then the circuit.