Built for NE Ohio winters
Girard is in the Mahoning Valley, inland of the heaviest Erie lake-effect snow but still in for a long heating season — hard freezes from November through March and a 42-inch frost line. The damp valley cold gets into every weak spot of an old house's envelope, which is why the older Girard neighborhoods generate steady no-heat calls once the temperature really drops. The frost line here is about 42 inches and hard-freeze season runs November through March, so heating equipment in Girard 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.