Bloomington, MN · About 6 miles from our office
HVAC & Plumbing in Bloomington, MN
About half of Bloomington's single-family homes were built before 1960, in the city's postwar boom. Tiger repairs, replaces, and maintains their furnaces, air conditioners, boilers, water heaters, and plumbing, and answers emergency calls 24/7 from our Eden Prairie office.
Heating and cooling
Bloomington grew from the east side west through the 1970s and 80s, and its single-family homes had a median age of 57 years when the city counted in 2018. The city's comprehensive plan says that for many of those older homes, keeping them in good shape means replacing major parts such as roofs and furnaces.
Heating repair and furnace replacement
Bloomington's own housing plan expects many of its older homes to need new furnaces. When one stops heating, Tiger finds the cause, repairs what is worth repairing, and prices a replacement next to the repair when the furnace is near the end of its life.
AC repair and replacement
Central air that runs but doesn't cool, freezes up, or trips the breaker needs a diagnosis before anything is replaced. Tiger repairs and replaces central air conditioners and can price a heat pump instead.
Boilers
Some older homes heat with a hot-water boiler instead of a furnace. Tiger repairs, maintains, and replaces residential boilers.
Tune-ups
A fall furnace tune-up and a spring AC tune-up, booked one at a time or together through the Tiger Cub Club membership.
Bloomington water
The city already softens your water
Bloomington is one of 24 city water utilities in Minnesota that soften their water. The treatment plant draws from deep wells, softens the water with lime from about 19 grains of hardness to about 5.2, and blends it with treated water the city buys from Minneapolis.
The city's water report says that removes the need for homeowners to run their own softeners, and that home softening can add sodium to drinking water. If an old softener in your home stops working, it is worth asking whether you need to replace it at all.
Water heaters still wear out. Tiger repairs and replaces gas and electric tank water heaters and installs tankless heaters.
Selling a Bloomington home
Bloomington requires a Time of Sale inspection before a house is listed, and any time it changes owners. The inspection looks at existing conditions, and the city names a short list of immediate hazards that must be fixed, or that a buyer can take on only with the city's written consent. Three of them are heating and plumbing.
Furnace or boiler
The city lists a heating system as an immediate hazard when it has a burned-out or rusted heat exchanger, a burned-out, rusted, or plugged flue, no vent, an unsafe gas connection, or cannot heat the living space.
Water heater
The same venting, heat exchanger, and gas problems count for a water heater, and so does a missing temperature and pressure relief valve.
Plumbing
Leaking drains, fixtures, or traps and cross connections between the city water supply and fixtures or sewer lines are on the list too.
If the inspection report lists a heating, water heater, or plumbing hazard, Tiger can repair or replace it. Where the work needs a permit, Tiger obtains it and schedules the inspection. See the city's Time of Sale program for the full list and how to book the inspection.
Bloomington permits
Two permits for one furnace
Replacing a furnace or central air unit in Bloomington takes a mechanical permit, and the city also requires an electrical permit for reconnecting its wiring. An electric water heater needs an electrical permit along with the plumbing permit.
Smaller jobs can need none: the city does not require a permit to replace a toilet in the same spot or a faucet on its own, though a new sink does need a plumbing permit.
Services for Bloomington homes
The services Bloomington homeowners search for most, starting with heating and cooling.
- HVAC servicesHeating and cooling repair, replacement, and maintenance
- AC repairWarm air, no cooling, or an outdoor unit that won't run
- PlumbingLeaks, fixtures, pipes, and gas lines
- Heating repairNo heat, short cycling, or cold air from the vents
- Water heatersGas and electric tank water heaters, repaired or replaced
- UV purifiersUV air purifier installation and service for the HVAC system
- BoilersBoiler repair, replacement, and maintenance
- Heating replacementA new furnace, with a free estimate
- HVAC maintenanceFall furnace and spring AC tune-ups
Emergencies
Day or night, call Tiger
Tiger answers emergency calls 24/7 for a furnace or boiler that stops heating, an air conditioner that quits in the heat, a leaking water heater, or a burst pipe. Call 952-942-5748.
Smell natural gas?
Leave immediately on foot. Do not use switches, phones, vehicles, or anything else that could create a spark. From a safe location, call 911 and CenterPoint Energy or your gas utility. Do not try to find or repair the leak yourself.
Estimates and nearby towns
Free replacement estimates
Free estimates apply to equipment replacement and installation. Repair and emergency visits are paid service calls, and Tiger confirms any applicable service charge when the visit is booked.
Ask for a free estimateNear Bloomington
Bloomington is inside Tiger's regular service area. From the same Eden Prairie office Tiger also serves Edina, Eagan, Burnsville, Savage, and Minneapolis. Share your address when you book to confirm.