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HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical in Auburn, Maine

Auburn, Androscoggin County

Your Local Home Service Team in Auburn

Aces Highlands serves Auburn with heat pump, plumbing and electrical service across the Androscoggin from Lewiston.

Auburn's shoe-and-mill-era neighborhoods often need rewiring that respects how these older homes were originally built.

From boiler repair to water heater replacement, we cover the full range. Request service in Auburn today.

Why Choose Us for Auburn

Local team based at 508 Riverside St Unit 1 in Portland — minutes from Auburn
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Getting to Know Auburn

Auburn once had one of the largest shoe industries in the country -- by 1917 the city's factories were turning out roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of white canvas shoes, before the industry faded after World War II. That manufacturing boom is a big part of why Auburn's older neighborhoods look the way they do today.

Auburn sits across the Androscoggin River from Lewiston, and the two cities share more than a border: they draw water together through the Auburn Water District, and the Little Androscoggin River cuts through Auburn as well. Auburn also runs its own municipal Electrical Department, which both maintains the city's traffic signals and streetlights and handles the city's electrical code inspections.

Auburn Homes and What They Need

Auburn's median home was built in 1954, with 38 percent of housing dating before 1940 and 57 percent before 1960 -- slightly older on average than Lewiston's stock, concentrated in the shoe- and mill-era neighborhoods that grew up after the city's 1848 rail connection went in. That vintage of housing is exactly where rewiring work tends to turn up knob-and-tube remnants and undersized panels.

Heating and Cooling in Auburn

About 51 percent of Auburn households heat mainly with fuel oil, 22 percent with utility gas, and 11 percent with electricity, per Census estimates -- though Auburn, like Lewiston, is not in Summit Natural Gas of Maine's published service area, so that utility-gas figure likely reflects an older local distribution setup. Either way, plenty of Auburn's oil-heated homes are good candidates for adding a heat pump alongside the existing system.

Water Supply and Drains in Auburn

The Auburn Water District draws from Lake Auburn and supplies both Auburn and Lewiston, with the city coordinating on development near the source through the Lake Auburn Watershed Commission. Wastewater goes to the same joint Lewiston-Auburn regional treatment authority that handles Lewiston's flow. On older Auburn properties, that shared infrastructure is worth knowing before a sewer line repair traces back to the main.

Power, Storms and Wiring in Auburn

Central Maine Power delivers electricity in Auburn, and unusually, the city's own municipal Electrical Department -- not just CMP -- plays a direct role here, maintaining city traffic signals and streetlights while also administering the city's electrical code inspections. That means permitting for a panel upgrade or new circuit in Auburn runs through the city's own inspection process.

Local & Independent — Not a Franchise

Aces Highlands is a locally owned Portland, Maine company serving Auburn — not a national franchise. Our technicians are not commissioned salespeople and nobody here is required to upsell you anything. We do the work you called us for, do it right, and earn the next call. That is the whole business model.

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