Furnace and heating repair in the east side of Centennial, Colorado, in the Piney Creek and Smoky Hill neighborhoods south of Summer Valley, including emergency furnace repair and HVAC repair.
Centennial is a separate city from Aurora. It incorporated on February 7, 2001, from unincorporated Arapahoe County, and at the time it was the largest incorporation in United States history. The name comes from Colorado's nickname, the Centennial State (Centennial, Colorado).
Piney Creek and Smoky Hill
Piney Creek, Piney Creek Village and Smoky Hill are the parts of Centennial closest to Meadowood, about three miles to the south. Smoky Hill Park sits among them. Centennial Airport, home of the NOAA weather station used for the climate numbers on this site, is just west of the city in unincorporated Arapahoe County.
Centennial Housing and Heat
Census figures for Centennial put the median build year at 1983, with the 1970s and 1980s as the two biggest building decades. About 81 percent of homes are owner-occupied. Gas heats about 77 percent of homes, a higher share than in Aurora as a whole (Centennial housing data).
With gas heat in most homes, the furnace carries the house through winter, and in many Piney Creek and Smoky Hill houses the air conditioner shares the furnace blower and control board.
Cold Nights in East Centennial
The NOAA normals station at Centennial Airport records about 155 nights a year at or below freezing, a January average low near 19 degrees and about 21 days a year when the high never climbs above freezing. Those are the days a furnace runs almost without stopping, and they are when flame sensors, inducer motors and frozen condensate lines on high efficiency furnaces cause the most trouble in Piney Creek and Smoky Hill. Two-story houses in these neighborhoods also see cold upstairs bedrooms in January when a long duct run or a weak blower cannot keep up.
Between Centennial and Aurora
Summer Valley is directly north, and Mission Viejo and Meadowood are a little farther. Centennial's east side is in the Cherry Creek School District. See the full service area.
Furnace Repairs in Piney Creek and Smoky Hill
- Basement gas furnaces: igniters, flame sensors, inducer motors, control boards
- Two-story airflow problems with cold upstairs bedrooms in winter
- Furnace blower and AC coil faults on shared systems
- High efficiency vent and condensate problems in deep cold
- Furnace replacement when a heat exchanger cracks
Sources and local offices: NOAA climate normals, Arapahoe County, Colorado, Cherry Creek School District.