HVAC Services in Bennington, VT

Bennington logs 7,019 heating degree days and 370 cooling degree days in a normal year, based on the closest NOAA weather station. Heating is the bigger job here, and furnaces and heat pumps in Bennington put in far more hours than the air conditioner. A normal year brings 152 nights at or below freezing and 3 days over 90°F. Snowfall averages about 75 inches. For a 2,000 sq ft house, this climate points to a heating load somewhere near 70,000 BTU/h. Treat that as a starting number. A Manual J calculation will move it up or down based on insulation and windows.

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Homes in Bennington

Census figures put the median build year in Bennington at 1957, so a typical house here has about 69 years on it. Houses that old often still have duct runs sized for an old coal or oil furnace and 60- or 100-amp electrical panels. Both can add cost when new equipment goes in. Bennington has roughly 2,100 owner-occupied homes, or 56.3% of households. Homes here have a median value of $185,100 and households a median income of $53,839. Those two numbers drive the labor adjustment in our estimate.

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