Traverse City, MI
(231) 888-0293

Comfort Heating Inc, Traverse City, MI, since 1985

Forty years of northern Michigan winters, and the heat is still on.

Family owned since 1985, working out of the red shop on Meadowlands Drive. Furnaces, boilers, heat pumps, air conditioning, tankless water heaters and indoor air quality across the Grand Traverse Region. Free quotes, and emergency service when it will not wait.

The Comfort Heating Inc shop at 2444 Meadowlands Drive, Traverse City, with the wordmark on the red steel wall and two liveried company vehicles parked outside

2444 Meadowlands Drive

The red building on Meadowlands is ours.

Locally and family owned, fully licensed and insured, in business here for over forty years. The trucks you see around the Grand Traverse Region go out of this yard every morning, and the people who answer the phone work in the same building.

How a job actually runs

One loop, walked from the slab to the thermostat

Most of what we build gets covered up the day after we finish it. This is the order it goes in, and what has to be right at each station before the next one can happen.

Two Comfort Heating technicians laying radiant floor heating tubing in serpentine loops across insulation board on an open slab

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Before the floor goes down

Radiant tubing gets stapled in a continuous loop across the insulation board while the slab is still open. Loop lengths, spacing and the return path all get set here, because this is the last day anyone can change them. Get it wrong and the only fix is a jackhammer.

Navien tankless boiler with dual radiant manifolds, flow meters and labelled loops in a finished mechanical room

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The manifold is where it becomes readable

Every loop lands on the manifold, labelled and balanced, so a zone that runs cold ten winters from now can be found in a minute instead of guessed at. Supply on top, return below, flow meters where somebody can actually read them.

Armstrong Air furnace installed and finished, with the Comfort Heating service sticker on the cabinet

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Then the heat source, sized to the house

Boiler, furnace or heat pump gets chosen off a load calculation, not off the sticker on whatever is being torn out. Venting and gas sizing are the two things that quietly fail a retrofit, so they get worked out before anything is ordered.

Honeywell Home ProSeries smart thermostat mounted on a wall with the screen lit

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And it is not done until you can drive it

The thermostat gets set up, and somebody stands there and walks you through it. One of our customers wrote that Levi and Corey did exactly that after her heat pump went in. That is the last station on every job, not an optional extra.

  1. Call

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    You tell us what it is doing

    Not what you think is broken. What it is doing, and when it started. Haylee in the office books it from there, and in winter that is usually the same day.

  2. Read

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    We measure before we quote

    Supply and return temperatures, static pressure, the state of the coil. A number tells you whether the system is tired or finished. A guess tells you nothing.

  3. Call it

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    Repair or replace, said out loud

    Poor efficiency, repairs that keep coming back, and 10 to 15 years on the clock are the three markers. One is a repair. Two or three together means we will say so.

“We had called Comfort Heating by 9 am and they always are courteous and helpful. We were promptly offered an appointment for the same day and our problem was resolved quickly.”Deanna Elliott, Google

Manufacturer certified

Two specialist certifications, and the installs to go with them

Mitsubishi Diamond Contractor

The certification Mitsubishi Electric puts on contractors it trains and stands behind for ductless systems. It is why a mini split in a room with no duct to run is a normal week here rather than a special order.

Navien service and installation specialist

Tankless water heating and condensing boilers. Venting and gas sizing are where these go wrong, and being a specialist means we have done enough of them to know which houses are going to need what.

Members of the Homebuilders Association and The Builders Exchange NW Michigan. Fully licensed and insured. We work on AirEase, American Standard, AprilAire, Armstrong Air, Bradford White, Daikin, Fujitsu, Goodman, Heatilator, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Navien, Rheem, Reznor and Sterling equipment.

A named job

An air to air heat pump, and two technicians who stayed to explain it

“They came on time, they were kind and efficient and did a great job of going through our new thermostat so that we understood how this new HVAC equipment worked for us. I would recommend them to anyone and I absolutely give them five stars. Thank you Levi and Corey.”

Dawn Campbell, Google review

Jake, Levi, Corey and Haylee turn up by name across our reviews, which is what happens when the same people have worked here for years. Customers write about being known on a first name basis, and about getting a same day appointment in the middle of a busy week.

Read the reviews
Mitsubishi Electric ductless condenser installed on an exterior wall under a gable
A Mitsubishi Electric ductless condenser we installed. Ductless is the answer when there is no duct to run and no good way to make one.

Straight answers

The questions we get asked most

The three indicators worth paying attention to are poor efficiency, repairs that keep coming back, and equipment that has reached 10 to 15 years of age. One of those on its own is usually a repair. Two or three together is the point where putting money into the old unit stops making sense, and we will tell you which side of that line you are on before you spend anything.

It takes a load calculation, not a rule of thumb. A qualified contractor works from your home's square footage, the quality of its insulation and its window specifications. Sizing off the label on the old unit is how a house ends up with equipment that short cycles for the next twenty years.

The Department of Energy suggests 68F (20C) through the winter months and 75F (24C) through the summer. On a two stage system or a heat pump the bigger saving usually comes from leaving it alone rather than swinging it up and down.

Yes. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and emergency service is available outside them. In a northern Michigan winter a furnace that quits is not something that waits until Monday.

Yes, quotes are free. We would rather look at the house, do the load calculation and tell you what it actually needs than give you a number over the phone that changes once somebody sees the duct run.

We work with Michigan Saves, which connects homeowners to a network of approved lenders offering unsecured loans with fixed rates, flexible terms and no penalty for early payoff. Our Michigan Saves contractor ID is 101346. If Michigan Saves is not a fit we can point you at other lending partners.

We are a Mitsubishi Diamond Contractor and a Navien service and installation specialist, and we work on gas furnaces, boilers, water heaters, ductless mini splits, PTAC through the wall units, fireplaces, thermostats, central air conditioners, humidifiers, dehumidifiers and unit heaters across the brands common in this region.

The Greater Grand Traverse Region, including Cedar, Elk Rapids, Empire, Glen Arbor, Interlochen, Kewadin, Maple City, Rapid City, Suttons Bay and Williamsburg.

Something not covered here? More questions and answers, or just call the office on (231) 888-0293.

Two Comfort Heating technicians moving a furnace on a hand truck across a snowy driveway at sunset

When it will not wait

A furnace that quits in January is not a Monday problem.

Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and emergency service is available outside them. Quotes are free. If you are weighing up a repair against a replacement, we would rather measure it and tell you straight.

2444 Meadowlands Dr, Traverse City, MI 49686 - serving Cedar, Elk Rapids, Empire, Glen Arbor, Interlochen, Kewadin, Maple City, Rapid City, Suttons Bay and Williamsburg.