Built for NE Ohio winters
Boardman sits in the Mahoning Valley, inland of the heaviest Erie lake-effect but locked into real Ohio winters — hard freezes November through March and a 42-inch frost line. The clay-soil subdivisions hold cold and damp, so heat loss through slab edges and uninsulated split-level lower levels is a common comfort complaint long before anything actually breaks. The frost line here is about 42 inches and hard-freeze season runs November through March, so heating equipment in Boardman 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.