Built for NE Ohio winters
Austintown shares the Mahoning Valley pattern: inland of the heaviest lake-effect snow but in for long, damp cold November through March and a 42-inch frost line. The flat, clay-soil subdivisions hold the cold, and bi-level lower levels built partly below grade are the first rooms to feel a hard freeze when a system is undersized or aging. The frost line here is about 42 inches and hard-freeze season runs November through March, so heating equipment in Austintown works longer and harder than it would almost anywhere else — and the cost of a no-heat call in February is a lot higher than an inconvenience.