Harvey Park
Harvey Park, with its two lakes, anchors the neighborhood and is the green center we use to split routes between the north and south blocks.
Harvey Park holds about 170 Cliff May homes, and they are the hardest cooling job in Denver: floor-to-ceiling glass, a flat roof and mile-high sun. We work the May homes and the brick ranches built in the fastest build-out in Denver history, where the answer starts with solar gain and zoning, not tonnage. Call (720) 806-7634 and tell us what your system is doing.
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Call Now (720) 806-7634 → No spam. No obligation. Just practical help.Harvey Park was built almost all at once — nearly 4,000 homes between 1954 and 1957 — and about 170 of them are Cliff May houses: post-and-beam, floor-to-ceiling glass, flat roofs, private courtyards. Cooling a glass house in Denver's high-altitude sun is a solar-gain problem first and an equipment problem second.
Cooling a glass house is the hardest job in the batch. These are the three patterns we see most here.
Floor-to-ceiling windows, a flat roof and Denver's mile-high sun make Harvey Park's 170 May homes the hardest cooling job in this part of the city. The answer starts with solar gain and zoning, not tonnage.
How we help: We size cooling for the glass, zone the sunniest rooms separately, and talk through shading and ductless heads before recommending a bigger system.
The Cliff May single-storey slab-on-grade homes often have no basement, which changes where the furnace and ducts can go. A basement-furnace plan does not apply here.
How we help: We check the foundation type per house before planning equipment placement, and we lean on ductless heads where there is no basement to run ducts through.
Original carports on many May homes limit where outdoor units can be screened, and the open plans leave few walls to hide equipment behind.
How we help: We plan outdoor unit placement with the carport and courtyard layout in mind, so the unit is screened without blocking access.
Glass rooms overheat every sunny afternoon
A flat roof that turns the house into an oven in July
AC runs all day and the glass rooms never cool
A slab home with no basement and nowhere for ducts
One end of an open-plan ranch stays warmer than the other
Harvey Park is southwest Denver's mid-century neighborhood, and the park is its landmark. We use the two lakes as the neighborhood's anchors and the wide flat streets as the routes.
Harvey Park, with its two lakes, anchors the neighborhood and is the green center we use to split routes between the north and south blocks.
Harvey Lake sits beside the park and is our reference point for calls on the neighborhood's eastern blocks.
Sheridan Boulevard is the eastern boundary and the main north-south corridor for Harvey Park calls.
Hampden Avenue, also US-285, is the southern edge and the east-west route for calls on the neighborhood's southern blocks.
These are the blocks and corridors we serve most often in Harvey Park. Nearby areas may also qualify—call if you do not see yours.
Harvey Park blocks around the park and lakes, the Cliff May streets and the brick ranch blocks.
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Call (720) 806-7634 →Floor-to-ceiling glass, a flat roof and Denver's mile-high sun make the May homes a solar-gain problem first. The answer starts with zoning and shading, not a bigger system — cooling gets sized for the glass and the sunniest rooms get zoned separately.
Slab homes have no basement, so the furnace and ducts need a different layout, and ductless heads are often the practical answer. The foundation type gets checked per house before placement is planned, since Harvey Park mixes slab May homes with basement brick ranches.
Often, yes. A wall head gives the glass rooms their own control without new ductwork, and it suits the open plans and carport layout of the May homes. The heads go in the rooms the sun hits hardest.
Historic Denver listed the Cliff May homes on its 50 Actions for 50 Places list, and the Far Southwest Area Plan notes Harvey Park as the best candidate in the plan area for historic designation. There is no landmark district yet, and the neighborhood association is not presented as an HOA.
A glass house that overheats, or a brick ranch past its best? Call Lion Tech Home Services at (720) 806-7634. We are open 24 hours, 7 days a week.
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