North Pointe Plumbing and Heating

Annual Home Inspections

A well-maintained system runs more efficiently, which ensures peak performance from your equipment. Better performing equipment saves you energy - and money.

Plus, if you or a family member suffers from asthma or allergies, regular furnace maintenance, including air filter replacement, helps to reduce dust particles, bacteria and plant spores in your home.

Maintenance Highlights:
All of our Service Technicians are fully licensed and receive ongoing training. When visiting your home, our licensed service technician will:

• Safety test for carbon monoxide (CO)
• Maintain air filters and re-install
• Check operation of thermostat and safety controls
• Check gas pilot safety system and service as required
• Maintain the motor and fan
• Check blower operation
• Check condition, tension and alignment of fan belt and perform required adjustments
• Service burners and set for proper combustion & ignition
• Check gas piping to furnace

Repair or replace?
A furnace is a long-term investment that will keep you comfortable for many years to come. If your furnace is more than 18 to 20 years old, it may be more cost-effective in the long run to replace it with a newer unit offering greater efficiency and lower operating costs.

8-point Promise
We always strive to deliver our best possible products, services and support available. Our 8-Point Promise is proof of this commitment.

• Arrive on time and ready to work.
• Clearly outline the work we'll do.
• Maintain a safe and clean workplace.
• Be professional and efficient.
• Use state-of-the-art diagnostics where applicable.
• Check our work.
• Give you honest advice.
• Be accountable.

Residential Heating Options

RADIANT HEAT

Radiant Floors circulate warm water through tubing embedded in the floor of your home. The heat radiates up through the floor, warming the people, furnishings and air in the room. The warmth stays down around where the people are, not up at the ceiling or lost to the outdoors every time a door or window is opened. It's a comfortable, even heat where cold spots and drafts are eliminated.

The Benefits ...

• True Comfort - Imagine your beautiful floors now warm and cozy to the touch.
• Works Everywhere - Under tile, marble, wood, carpet and concrete floors. Radiant Walls and Radiant Ceilings can also create a cozy, efficient environment.
• Saves Money - Can save 20 to 40 percent over traditional heating systems.
• Clean, Healthy - No drafts or fans blowing dust, dirt and other allergens into the air.
• Quiet - Eliminates noisy fans, popping ductwork and pinging pipes.
• Increases Living Space - Lets you live in and enjoy that previously cold basement.
• Wise Investment - Makes your home more attractive to potential buyers.

GEOTHERMAL HEATING

Geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) are a relatively new technology that can save homeowners money. These ground-source heat pumps use the relatively constant temperature of the ground or water several feet below the earth's surface as source of heating and cooling. Geothermal heat pumps are appropriate for retrofit or new homes, where both heating and cooling are desired. In addition to heating and cooling, geothermal heat pumps can provide domestic hot water. They can be used for virtually any size home or lot in any region of the U.S.

Special heat pump features can include variable speed blowers and multiple-speed compressors. These features can improve comfort and efficiency in areas where heating and cooling loads are quite different. Add-on features include the capability to produce hot water.

Geothermal heating can be more efficient than electric resistance heating. These systems are also typically more efficient than gas or oil-fired heating systems. They are more energy efficient than air-source heat pumps because they draw heat from, or release heat to, the earth, which has moderate temperatures year round, rather than to the air (which is generally colder in winter and warmer in summer than the earth, resulting in less effective heat transfer).

HRV & ERV SYSTEMS

Heat recovery ventilators (HRV) constantly supply fresh air to provide a healthy indoor environment by reducing odors and and indoor pollutants, such as radon, formaldehyde, tobacco smoke, nitrogen dioxides, carbon monoxide, and pesticides. Energy recovery units constantly bring fresh air into the home while exhausting like amounts of stale indoor air at the same time.

The recovery part of the ventilation means that the hot or cold energy in the air (depending on the season) is extracted from the indoor air before it is exhausted and transferred to the incoming air, so that there is little energy lost.

Heat Recovery Ventilators use separate blowers to constantly supply incoming fresh air while exhausting outgoing stale air. The heat-exchange core transfers heat to fresh air without mixing the airstreams. The damper automatically stops cold air for defrosting.

HRV vs ERV
Heat recovery ventilators (HRV) will transfer temperature only from the high temperature air to the low temperature air. Energy recovery ventilators (ERV) transfer both temperature and moisture. Since transferring both temperature and moisture has benefits in both winter and summer, ERV's are a better choice in all but the most northern colder climates for providing year round fresh air to the home.

Heat recovery units can be installed in an existing home, as well as a new home, and are an integral part of the heating and air conditioning system. HRV systems can work with any forced air system equipped with a blower and duct system. It can also be used with non-forced air systems (floor heat coils, for instance) as an independent system.

To maximize the air quality, you can keep your home closed year-round and operate the HRV system constantly, efficiently producing a fresh and secure environment.

Commercial Heating Options

Low Intensity Gas Tube Heaters
Low intensity gas infra-red tube heaters are built of rugged, heavy-duty construction to tackle your toughest heating challenges. Available with 40,000 to 200,000 BTUH inputs and tube lengths from 20 to 40 feet. SAVES UP TO 75% IN ENERGY COSTS!

Features:

• Operate on natural or propane gas.
• Proven system design for over 30 years.
• Aluminized titanium alloy combustion chamber.
• Corrosion-resistant heat exchanger.
• Flared/swaged tubes for easy installation.
• CSA International Design Certified. Simple chain mounting.
• Burner fully assembled & tested, ready to hang.
• Safe, reliable operation.

Application Uses: Aircraft hangars, auto dealerships, farm buildings, fire stations, body shops, car washes, sport facilities, loading docks, warehouses, maintenance facilities, and so on.

Garage Heaters

Need a portable electric heater for your hobby greenhouse or even your garage? Maybe you need a steam heater, or gas unit heater to hang from the ceiling.

North Pointe Plumbing & Heating is one of the leading installers of HVAC products. We supply a full range of commercial quality forced air unit heaters for greenhouse heating as well as warehouse heaters, garage heaters or heating any commercial space.