What Should I Set My Thermostat to in a Minnesota Winter?
68–70°F while home and awake, lower at night, never below 55°F when away. What setbacks save in Minnesota, how heat pumps differ, and how to keep windows dry.
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Central Minnesota Heating and Cooling repairs and replaces furnaces, ACs, heat pumps and boilers in Rogers (Hennepin County), about 20 miles from downtown Minneapolis.
Rogers straddles Interstate 94, and since absorbing Hassan Township in 2012 it runs from freeway-side subdivisions all the way to farmland and park land along the Crow River.
Electric service in Rogers is split between Xcel Energy and Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric depending on the address.
Updated October 27, 2026 · By Eric Brown, owner, Central Minnesota Heating and Cooling

Around town: Interstate 94 · Crow River · Crow-Hassan Park Reserve · Highway 101
Book in RogersRogers started as a small village, and the few blocks of older houses near the original downtown are the exception in a city that mostly went up after 1990. In those older houses, expect a basement furnace that replaced something older, a chimney shared with the water heater and little ductwork upstairs beyond a couple of floor registers.
The building boom is the main story. Rogers more than doubled its population during the 2000s alone, and the subdivisions of that era produced a lot of the same house: a two-story or split-entry with a builder-grade furnace in an unfinished corner of the basement, a 10 or 13 SEER condenser in the side yard, R-22 refrigerant in the earlier ones, and a thermostat in the main-floor hallway. Split-entries put a family room and bedroom half below grade, and those rooms run cold. On the former Hassan Township side, homes on acreage from the 1970s onward mix propane furnaces, electric heat and heated outbuildings along the Crow River valley.
Rogers' subdivisions went up on open farmland, and a decade or two of tree growth hasn't done much to slow the wind. Drifting snow buries side-wall PVC vents and piles against condensers and heat pumps on the windward side of the house. Split-entry lower levels, half in the ground, stay cool in January, and bedrooms over the garage run cold because their floor sits over unheated space. On the Hassan side, propane access and frozen pipes in outbuildings are the usual winter calls.
By July, the upstairs of a Rogers two-story can run noticeably warmer than the main floor, especially with a single return in the upstairs hallway. Original R-22 air conditioners from the 1990s are costly to recharge now that R-22 is no longer produced, which pushes many owners toward replacement after one leak. Near the Crow River and Crow-Hassan Park Reserve, cottonwood fluff in June can mat on condenser coils, and a rinse once it stops keeps the unit breathing.
Gas furnace rebates in Rogers come from CenterPoint Energy: high-efficiency furnaces, boilers and thermostats, with any dealer you pick. On the electric side, Xcel Energy and Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric both serve the city, depending on the address. Xcel's heat pump and cooling rebates often require a registered contractor, so ask. Wright-Hennepin has its own air-source, ductless and dual-fuel heat pump rebates, and some require enrolling in its Energy-Saving Program. On propane acreage, the dual-fuel option is usually the one worth pricing.
Rebate programs change every year; check the utility's current terms before you buy. Our guides: Xcel and CenterPoint rebates, heat pump rebates, what happened to the federal credits.
Central Minnesota Heating and Cooling, owned by Eric Brown and in business since 2009, serves Rogers and nearby towns in Hennepin County, about 20 miles from downtown Minneapolis. We're open 7 days, 7am–9pm, and no-heat calls get priority. Call 612-429-3465.
An HVAC service call in Rogers is a flat $79 trip charge, waived when you approve the repair. You get a written price before any work. Installed prices are on our pricing page.
If both are original, usually yes. The indoor coil sits on the furnace and has to match the outdoor unit, and equipment made from 2025 on uses lower-GWP refrigerants such as R-454B or R-32, so replacing only the condenser often means replacing the coil anyway. Doing both together means one install and a matched system. If the furnace is still sound, we'll say so and quote the AC alone.
The pricing isn't, but the equipment often is. Homes in the former township are more likely to have propane, a private well and septic, and the electric provider may be Wright-Hennepin rather than Xcel Energy. That changes the options, especially whether a dual-fuel heat pump makes sense against your propane cost and your electric rate.
Usually. Most builder furnaces have capacity to spare for a finished basement, because below-grade walls lose less heat than above-grade ones. The problem is distribution: builders often leave two or three supply registers and no return down there. We add supplies off the trunk, a low return and a damper if needed, so the basement gets its share without stealing airflow from upstairs.
Start with where they exit. Side-wall vents on the windward side should sit well above the snow line, and many furnaces accept a manufacturer's kit that raises them. Clear around the intake and exhaust after every storm, and never blow or shovel snow against them. If the furnace shuts off in a storm and restarts after you clear the pipes, that's the cause, and raising or moving the vent is the permanent fix.
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