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Heating & cooling division

Comfortable through every Buffalo winter — and every summer.

Furnaces, boilers, air conditioning, heat pumps, and ductless systems — installed and serviced by certified technicians who stand behind every system they put in.

Three Hertel heating and cooling technicians on a job
  • Tempstar Elite Dealer
  • Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Contractor
  • 2025 Mitsubishi Electric Rookie of the Year
  • Licensed & Insured
  • OSHA Compliant
Heating

When it’s eight degrees and the furnace quits.

Furnace and boiler repair, maintenance and installation. We install and service Dunkirk and LAARS boilers, and as a Tempstar Elite Dealer we can offer a 20-year heat exchanger warranty on qualifying furnaces.

  • Furnace repair & installation
  • Boiler repair & installation
  • Radiator repair & replacement
  • Annual heating tune-ups
  • No-heat emergency service
A Hertel technician measuring for a heating installation
A Hertel technician checking refrigerant pressures with manifold gauges on a condenser
Cooling

Ready before the first hot week.

Air conditioning repair, maintenance and installation — including for houses that have no furnace to hang a system off.

  • AC repair & installation
  • Air handler service
  • AC installation for homes without a furnace
  • Annual cooling tune-ups
Heat pumps

Heating and cooling from one system.

A heat pump does both jobs, and modern cold-climate units hold their output far further down the thermometer than the older generation managed. Worth a conversation if you’re replacing anyway.

  • Heat pump installation and replacement
  • Heat pump repair and troubleshooting
  • Seasonal maintenance and tune-ups
  • System upgrades and efficiency improvements
Ducted & ductless mini splits

Comfort where there’s no ductwork to use.

Additions, attic conversions, garages and older Buffalo houses that never had ducts. We’re a Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Contractor, which is a top-tier certification for training and installation quality — and on ductless, the install is what decides whether the system performs.

  • Mini split installation
  • Indoor & outdoor unit service
  • Multi-zone system design
  • Filter & coil cleaning
Duct services

Air can only go where the ductwork lets it.

Rooms that never warm up are often a duct problem rather than an equipment problem. We design, install, repair, seal and clean.

  • Ductwork installation & design
  • Duct repair & sealing
  • Duct cleaning
  • Insulation & efficiency upgrades
Indoor air quality

Drier, cleaner, easier to breathe.

  • Whole-home humidifiers
  • Air filtration systems
  • Ventilator installation
  • Air filter upgrades
Exposed spiral ductwork running along a finished hallway ceiling
Spiral duct and supply registers crossing a finished room

One install, two rooms — exposed spiral run with integrated registers.

Award

2025 Rookie of the Year, Mitsubishi Electric.

Given for our first year as a Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Contractor — recognition of the training the team put in and the quality of the ductless installations that followed.

HVAC dealer certifications

Tempstar Elite Dealer
Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Contractor
LAARS Heating Systems Company
Dunkirk boilers
Energy Star
Comfort Advantage Plan

Save year-round with the Comfort Advantage Plan.

$329 for two pieces of equipment · $99 each additional piece · covers you for one full year.

  • Annual precision system tune-up
  • Priority response service, 365 days a year
  • Repair workmanship guarantee
  • Enhanced performance condenser cleaning
  • New system installation savings
Know the signs

Signs your system may need service.

  • Rooms that never match each other, however you set the thermostat
  • Weak airflow, or a system that runs and runs without shutting off
  • New noises, odd smells, or short cycling on and off
  • Heating or cooling costs that climbed without the weather explaining it
  • Water, ice, or moisture anywhere around the equipment
What to expect

What happens on a service visit.

  1. We talk through the problem and what comfort issues you’re having
  2. We inspect the equipment and the components connected to it
  3. We explain the findings and the options available
  4. We give you the price and wait for you to approve it
  5. We test system operation once the work is finished
What Buffalo says

On the heating and cooling side.

“The main difference I noticed from the other companies that I had estimates from was the fact that John offered me a variety of options and explained current rebates and tax incentives by product. He answered all of my questions and did not rush.”
Vincent G. · via Google
“Been using Hertel for over 30 years. Their quick response time, the quality of their work is unmatched. Victor figured out that the batteries in the thermostat needed to be changed. Think of what one of the big companies would have done in that situation.”
Joe T. · via Google
“Thank you to your service man, Victor, for a quick simple fix of my AC on the first hot days of summer.”
Julie M. · via Google
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Request Service

Tell us what’s going on.

Send us the details and we’ll get back to you during business hours to schedule a visit and talk through pricing.

Have an emergency? Please call — don’t submit a form.

For burst pipes, no heat, no hot water, gas odors, or any after-hours emergency, call (716) 875-3900. Form submissions are answered during business hours and are not monitored around the clock.

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Questions

Heating and cooling, answered.

Once a year for each piece of equipment — heating before the cold arrives, cooling before the first hot week. A tune-up is mostly about catching the small thing before it becomes the no-heat call in January. Our Comfort Advantage Plan bundles the annual tune-up with priority scheduling.

A well-maintained furnace generally runs 15 to 20 years and an air conditioner 12 to 15. Age alone isn’t the decider, though — how it was installed, how hard it has worked and whether it has been serviced matter more than the date on the label.

Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Contractor is a step up in Mitsubishi Electric’s contractor program, awarded on training and installation quality rather than sales volume. Ductless systems live or die on how well they’re sized and installed, so the certification is really about the install being done right. Mitsubishi Electric named us their 2025 Rookie of the Year.

No. Ductless mini splits cool and heat without any ductwork at all, which makes them a good fit for older Buffalo homes, additions, attic conversions and garages. If you already have ducts in good condition, a conventional system is usually the cheaper route.

As a Tempstar Elite Dealer we can offer a 20-year warranty on the heat exchanger — the part that actually transfers heat and the most expensive single component in a furnace. Coverage terms and registration requirements come from Tempstar, so we’ll go through the specifics with you for the model you’re installing.

That’s most of the conversation on a service call. We’ll tell you what the repair costs, what life the equipment realistically has left, and what a replacement would run — then leave the decision to you. One customer’s system needed thermostat batteries, and that’s what it got.

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