About Upvalley Heat
Upvalley Heat publishes heating and cooling notes for the Roaring Fork Valley, built from makers' manuals, utility pages and government sources, for homes between Glenwood Springs and Snowmass Village.
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What Upvalley Heat covers
Upvalley Heat covers what changes when you heat a home at 5,800 to 8,200 feet: gas furnaces and boilers set up for thin air, cold-climate heat pumps, radiant floors and snowmelt, dry and smoky indoor air, local rebates and rules, and what to do in a cold snap. The towns it follows are Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, El Jebel, Basalt, Snowmass Village and Aspen, across Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties.
Every page starts from public documents: installation manuals, utility rebate pages, federal and state agency pages, and local building codes. The sourcing page explains how figures are chosen and dated.
What it is not
Upvalley Heat is not an HVAC contractor. It does no installs, repairs, tune-ups or service calls, and no one from this site will come to your house. It is not a utility, a building department or any other government office, and it cannot approve a rebate or a permit.
Upvalley Heat has no tie to any business that used this web address before, and nothing here speaks for one.
Who owns it
Upvalley Heat belongs to the same ownership group as four businesses: PlumbingSupplyAndMore, a plumbing and HVAC supply store; Central Plumbing & HVAC, a plumbing and heating company in Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania, which does not work in Colorado; and two water treatment stores, SoftPro Water Systems (part of Upvalley Heat's ownership group) and Quality Water Treatment (part of Upvalley Heat's ownership group). A few pages link to them; ownership and links lists which pages do and the rules those links follow.
Using these pages
These pages are general information, not professional advice for your home. Before you buy, replace or change heating equipment, check with your utility, your town or county building department, and a qualified, licensed technician. Rebates and rules change, so confirm the current terms with the program itself. Anything involving gas, refrigerant or electrical panels is a job for a professional. If you smell gas, leave the house first and call your gas utility and 911 from outside. How visits to this site are handled is on the privacy page.