HVAC in Sebastopol

Sebastopol at a glance

Sebastopol is a city of 7,521 people (2020) west of Santa Rosa, where State Route 12 meets State Route 116, the Gravenstein Highway, about 9 miles west of U.S. 101. It sits on the edge of the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

What that means for your heating and cooling

West county homes include many older cottages, farmhouses and homes on wooded lots, often without central ducts. Ductless heat pumps suit them well; see heat pumps.

Damp air by the laguna

Homes near the laguna and its creeks sit in lower, damper ground where fog and moisture linger. Damp crawl spaces and ducts can lead to musty air, so sealing ducts and keeping crawl spaces dry help. Trees around west county homes also drop leaves and needles into outdoor units, so clear them each fall.

Pine Grove to Sebastopol

The settlement was first named Pine Grove, a name that lives on at the Pine Grove General Store downtown. Its change to Sebastopol is traditionally traced to a bar fight in the 1850s that a bystander compared to the long siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. Once a plum- and apple-growing region, the town later turned old agricultural warehouses into The Barlow marketplace. Converted barns and outbuildings like those are often heated and cooled with ductless systems.