Cedarburg
Old houses, new systems.
Cream brick and limestone outside, a century of retrofits inside.
Cedarburg's Washington Avenue Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986: 80 contributing buildings in a 28 acre area, many of them built between the 1840s and the early 1900s out of locally mined limestone and fieldstone, the Cedarburg Mill and the Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Mills among them. Cream brick and limestone are the district's materials.
A house from that era has typically had a century of retrofits inside it. Some have ductwork that was added long after the walls went up; some have none. Plaster walls, added returns and rooms that were never on the original system are common, so a heating retrofit in a pre 1900 house usually starts with an evaluation of what is there before anyone talks about equipment.
HVAC System Evaluation, HVAC Inspection and HVAC Test and Balance are on the service list. Describe the house when you call.