Kensington shifts quickly from detached homes with their own yards to tighter blocks where neighbors share walls and outdoor space is limited. Nero's Heating & Air works with air conditioners, heat pumps, ductless mini-splits, furnaces, boilers and water heaters throughout that mix.
You see those different layouts around Plyers Mill Road, Summit Avenue and Knowles Avenue, often only a few blocks apart. Wherever you are in Kensington, the same team handles the call, the visit and whatever the system needs next.
Heating work here runs from a furnace that locks out on the coldest night of the year to a cast-iron boiler still pushing heat into the radiators it was installed with. Our heating technicians repair, service, and replace both ends of that range.
Is the air conditioner running without the house getting any cooler? Our AC technicians take that apart in order, from the condenser on the pad outside to the coil and blower indoors, and handle air conditioning repair, maintenance, and full replacement.
Heat pump installation, repair, and maintenance all sit with the same team as ductless mini-splits, because the two share most of their parts. That covers the outdoor unit, the indoor heads, the line set between them, and the controls that decide when each one runs.
Water heater calls here come in on tank and tankless equipment, gas and electric alike. Our technicians repair what can be repaired, replace what cannot, and deal with the venting and the water connections that come with either kind, in a basement or in a closet.
A whole-home humidifier puts moisture back into a house that dries out over winter, and a whole-home dehumidifier takes it out of one that does not dry out in summer. Our indoor air quality specialists install and service both, and clean ductwork where there is a reason to.
If you are replacing HVAC equipment inside the Kensington town limits, the paperwork can involve both Montgomery County and the Town of Kensington. The county mechanical permit comes first, and the town may also require its own building permit.
You do not have to sort that out yourself. We handle the required filings, carry the job through final inspection and include the permit costs on your final invoice.
If your home is in the Kensington Historic District, exterior equipment may require an additional review. That can include the placement of an outdoor unit, especially around Connecticut Avenue and Howard Avenue.
HVAC incentives in Kensington can change from one program cycle to the next. The current EmPOWER Maryland cycle runs through 2026, with Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) covering qualifying electric equipment and Washington Gas covering eligible gas heating equipment.
When we quote a new system, we can go over what is available at that time and how it may affect your cost.
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We offer financing for HVAC replacement if paying the full cost at once does not work for your budget. You can review the monthly payment options alongside the written project price before deciding how you want to move forward.
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The building usually does. A third of Kensington housing sits in blocks of fifty units or more, where there is often no private ground and the management company signs off placement.
Sometimes, and sometimes not. Eighteen percent of Kensington housing predates 1940, and houses of that age were built before ducted systems, so ductless mini-splits come up more often here.
It can. A derecho uprooted a significant number of Kensington's trees, and after that kind of wind the condenser coil, its pad and the electrical disconnect are what get checked first.
About three percent are. Sixteen occupied units run on bottled or tank gas and ten on fuel oil, so on those addresses the replacement starts with the fuel supply.
Either. A rattle is usually something loose in the cabinet, a hum at startup often points at the capacitor or contactor, and a scraping noise means stopping the system.
Whether you already know what has failed, only know what the system is doing, or just want an opinion on whether it is worth keeping, that is enough to book on. We will take a look and tell you which of those you are in.
