The East Shore: close to the water, and it shows
The neighborhoods along the shoreline live with salt air, flood history, and a lot of homes that were raised after Sandy — and all three change where the equipment sits and how hard it works.
Neighborhoods
- Arrochar
- South Beach
- Ocean Breeze
- Midland Beach
- Grasmere
- Old Town
- Dongan Hills
- Grant City
- New Dorp
- New Dorp Beach
- Oakwood
- Bay Terrace
The houses here
Much of the East Shore is bungalows and modest two-story homes on small lots, and a large number of them were lifted onto new foundations after Hurricane Sandy. Raising a house moves the mechanicals: boilers and water heaters come up out of flood-prone basements, condensers go up on platforms, and the piping and venting all have to be rethought around where the equipment lives now.
What we do most here
- Central air and condenser repair — outdoor coils foul and corrode faster near the water
- Replacement systems — sized for the house as it stands today, not as it was built
- Heating equipment in its new home — boilers, furnaces, and water heaters relocated out of the basement
- Spring tune-ups — the visit that catches corrosion before it becomes a replacement
Salt air is hard on outdoor units
A condenser a few blocks from the ocean corrodes and clogs faster than the same unit a few miles inland. Cleaning the coil and checking the fins every spring is inexpensive. Replacing a condenser that rotted out years early is not.