Los Chavez runs about eleven and a half square miles along the west side of the Rio Grande, filling most of the gap between Los Lunas and Belen. It is unincorporated, so county and state handle permits and inspections, and NM 314 is the spine. Better than ten miles of that highway sit inside the community.
The land grant here dates to 1738, issued to Nicolas Duran y Chavez, and by 1790 the settlement had grown into six separate plazas. Senator Dennis Chavez, who represented New Mexico in Washington for twenty seven years, came from this family and this place. The elementary school on NM 314 carries his name.
We are about 15 miles out, roughly half an hour, with no travel surcharge. Elevation runs around 4,825 feet, which puts the altitude derate on gas appliances at about 11 percent. A 100,000 BTU furnace here delivers closer to 89,000. That has to be in the load calculation, not discovered afterward when the house will not hold temperature on a cold night.
Furnace repair, installation, and maintenance. Heat pump service, dual zone systems, and emergency heating repair.
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Learn MoreDrain cleaning and hydro-jetting, water heaters, pipe repair, sewer lines, gas lines, and water softener systems.
Learn MoreAround-the-clock emergency HVAC and plumbing service for Los Chavez homeowners. No after-hours surcharge on service calls.
Annual tune-up plans that extend equipment life, protect your warranty, and cut energy costs year-round.
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Learn MoreClose to half the housing is manufactured, part of the ground rates high corrosion risk to concrete as well as steel, and most of the community is inside the mapped floodplain.
Close to half of the homes in Los Chavez are manufactured, which is not a footnote, it changes the equipment. Manufactured homes require HUD-listed sealed combustion furnaces that draw combustion air from outside, and mobile-home-rated water heaters. Site-built equipment is not a legal or safe substitute, no matter how well it fits the closet. Duct systems in these homes are different too, usually a belly run rather than an attic plenum, and diagnosing airflow in one is its own skill. We do this work constantly.
Most places we work, the soil is hard on buried steel and easy on concrete. Los Chavez is one of the few where both are a problem. The moderately alkali phase of the Gila clay loam here rates High for corrosion risk to uncoated steel and High to concrete. That second one is unusual and it matters for anything set in or against the ground: footings under equipment pads, buried sewer, and slab penetrations. Elsewhere in the valley we mainly worry about the pipe. Here we look at what it is sitting in too.
FEMA maps roughly 78 percent of Los Chavez inside a Special Flood Hazard Area. That is lower than Tome or Jarales but still most of the community. The practical version is the same: think about elevation of equipment before installing it, not after. A water heater on a low garage slab, a furnace in a sunken utility room, and a condenser sitting flush in the dirt are all cheap to raise at install and expensive to deal with later.
Roughly 69 percent of occupied homes in Los Chavez heat with utility natural gas. That is worth stating plainly because people assume unincorporated means propane out here, and in this community it does not. It does mean two New Mexico specific rules apply to the gas work: the state prohibits copper and copper alloy pipe for fuel gas, and it requires an additional approved shutoff valve downstream of the utility meter before gas distributes into the house piping. Both are amendments New Mexico wrote into the mechanical code, and both get missed.
The typical Los Chavez home went up in 1988. Furnaces, water heaters and condensers installed with those houses are long gone, and what replaced them in the late nineties and early two thousands is now twenty five years old and at the end of its own service life. That is the bulk of what we get called for here: not a mystery failure, a second-generation system finishing its run. Planning that replacement beats reacting to it in January.
Call before noon and we typically dispatch a technician to Los Chavez the same day, with no travel surcharge.
You see the full cost before we start. No hourly billing, no hidden fees, no after-hours surcharge on service calls.
Every technician holds NATE certification, the industry's highest standard for HVAC expertise and professionalism.
Heating, cooling, and plumbing emergencies do not keep business hours. We answer around the clock for Los Chavez.
Reach us at (505) 933-3060 or book in about a minute. Tell us what the system is doing.
You get an arrival window and a stocked truck. We show up when we said we would.
We find the actual cause and give you a flat-rate price in writing before any work begins.
Most repairs finish in one visit, backed by a 1-year labor warranty and a follow-up check.
NM 314 is the main road and most of the community is reached from it. From there it spreads out along Camino de Los Chavez, Square Deal Road, Peyton Road, Miller Road, Seabell Road, Ladera Road, Edmundo Road, Kendrick Road, Los Lentes Road, Gabaldon Road, Andres Sanchez Road, Juan P Sanchez Road and Calle de Oro. Mid Valley Air Park sits inside the community as well, and we service homes there.
Los Chavez shares Belen's 87002 ZIP code, which confuses a lot of directories. If your mail says Belen but you are north of the city limits on 314, you are almost certainly in Los Chavez, and either way you are in our area. The fire station is on Bombero Circle and most of the community is in the Belen Consolidated school district.
Los Chavez shares 87002 with Belen, so your mail may say Belen even though you are not in the city. Either way you are in our area. Call (505) 933-3060.
We answer around the clock in Los Chavez. A furnace out in a manufactured home on a January night is not something to wait on, and neither is a burst line. Call any time.
Optimal PHC covers Central New Mexico from our Los Lunas shop, north through the Albuquerque metro and south down the Rio Grande valley.
Same-day appointments available. Licensed, insured, and backed by a 1-year labor warranty on every repair.