HVAC Service in Quakertown, PA
Heating and cooling in a borough that runs its own electric utility
The median Quakertown house dates to 1967, and that midpoint hides two different halves of the borough. About 26.1 percent of the housing predates 1940, another 24.7 percent went up in the 1970s alone, and 78.1 percent predates 1970.
Unity Heating & Air Conditioning works out of Macungie and covers Quakertown as regular territory. Tyler Furbacher owns the company, looks at the job and installs it.
Electricity is the leading heating fuel here, at 43.4 percent of households, ahead of gas at 32.4 percent and fuel oil at 19.3 percent. That ranking drives most of the replacement work in town.
Your power comes from the borough, not PPL
This is the most useful thing to know before shopping for a heat pump in Quakertown. The borough has run its own municipal electric department since the early 1890s, and borough electric customers are not PPL customers. PPL’s heat pump and cooling rebates are attached to PPL accounts, so they do not apply at an address the borough serves.
Ask the borough electric department directly what it offers before you build any incentive into a budget. Pennsylvania’s statewide home energy rebate program has not launched either, so there is nothing to claim there yet. Plan the project on equipment cost and operating cost.
Eleven degrees, and why that number moves the sizing
Quakertown is in Bucks County, where the 99 percent winter design temperature is about 11 F. A few miles north, in Lehigh and Northampton counties, the same figure is 8 F. Three degrees is nothing on a thermometer, but in a load calculation it shifts the design heat loss, and in a heat pump capacity table it shifts the outdoor temperature where backup heat takes over.
Cooling is selected against a summer design temperature near 91 F, and the heating season runs roughly 5,800 heating degree days. None of that shows up in square footage, which is why a full system replacement should start with a load calculation on the actual house.
The 1970s half of town, and what electric heat left behind
The 1970s cohort is the busiest group in the borough. Those houses came with ducts, so a heat pump or a conventional split system drops in without opening walls. The catch is that the ducts were drawn for the equipment of the day, and the returns are usually too small for the airflow a modern system moves.
Where the heat is electric baseboard or an old resistance furnace, the electric service comes before the equipment. A heat pump moves heat instead of making it, which is the whole reason the swap gets considered, but it needs a matched air handler and a service that can carry it. In Quakertown the meter side of that is a borough matter.
Older blocks with nowhere to run a duct
The Liberty Bell convoy laid over here on the night of September 18, 1777, and the Quakertown Historic District is listed on the National Register. Most of the pre-1940 quarter of the housing sits in those blocks: plaster walls, tight plans and no chase anywhere for supply and return.
Cooling in those houses usually means ductless mini splits, one head per zone with a small penetration per room, or ductwork built to fit the house where an attic or a stacked closet offers a path. Where oil is still the heat, oil furnaces and oil boilers get serviced on their own terms.
Frequently asked questions about HVAC work in Quakertown
My electric bill comes from the borough. Does that change a heat pump project?
It changes what you can count on. Borough electric customers are outside PPL, so PPL’s heat pump and cooling rebates are not available at your address. Check with the borough electric department about its own programs and about service capacity, since any meter or service upgrade the job needs goes through them.
Is there a gas main on my street?
Not always, and only about a third of the borough heats with gas. Being inside UGI’s territory describes a region, not your block. UGI extends a service line at no cost within 150 feet of an existing main, and past that the run is a homeowner cost. Confirm it before planning a natural gas or propane system.
Does a furnace or air conditioning replacement need a permit here?
Yes. Permits and inspections run through the Borough Code and Zoning Department at 35 N. Third Street, (215) 536-5001. Pennsylvania adopted the 2021 IRC and 2021 IECC on January 1, 2026, so new work is reviewed against that code rather than the version in force when your current system went in.
Will a heat pump hold the house through January?
It can, when it is chosen for the conditions. Equipment here is sized to roughly 11 F and about 5,800 heating degree days, which means reading capacity at low outdoor temperatures rather than at 47 F, deciding deliberately how backup heat is staged, and running the load calculation on your house instead of a comparable one.
Book HVAC service in Quakertown
Call Unity Heating & Air Conditioning at (267) 644-9516 to get on the schedule, or send the details through the contact page. Repairs, cleanings, installations and replacements run out of Macungie. Emergency scheduling is available at any hour.
