Built for NE Ohio winters
McDonald sits in the southern Mahoning Valley, inland of the heaviest lake-effect snow but still in for a long, damp heating season — hard freezes November through March and a 42-inch frost line. The valley cold settles in for months and finds the weak spots in an old village home's envelope, keeping no-heat reliability front and center all winter. The frost line here is about 42 inches and hard-freeze season runs November through March, so heating equipment in McDonald 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.