Heating and Cooling Contractors in the Somerset Hills: A Verified Guide for Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster and Far Hills

The Guide: Heating and Cooling Contractors in the Somerset Hills, NJ

New Jersey licenses heating and cooling work to a named person. Every company that installs or repairs a furnace, boiler, heat pump or air conditioner in this state works under a Master HVACR contractor’s licence held by an individual, registered with the State Board of Examiners, and searchable by anyone in about ninety seconds.

Almost nobody publishes which one. Search for a contractor in Basking Ridge or Bernardsville and you will find two dozen companies described as “fully licensed and insured” — a phrase that costs nothing to write and carries no information at all. This guide reports, for every company, exactly what it publishes about its own licence and exactly what the state record says. Where a company publishes nothing, the guide says that too.

How We Selected These Companies

This guide covers five towns: Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone.

A company appears here if it installs, repairs or replaces residential heating and cooling systems for homeowners in those towns.

That is the whole test, and it is deliberately a low bar. Heating and cooling is work that travels to the customer, so a company based in Gillette or Flemington serves these towns as legitimately as one based on Mine Brook Road. Where a company operates from is a fact in the table, not a reason to leave it out.

The licence is not the gate. It is the first column. Making it a condition of entry would have quietly deleted several long-standing local businesses on the strength of what their websites do not say. Instead every qualifying company is listed, and the column reports what each one publishes and what the state registry returns.

Twenty-four companies meet the test. They are listed alphabetically. Some are two streets away and some are an hour off, and the table says which is which.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Companies appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they perform residential heating and cooling work for homeowners in the towns this guide covers. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No company can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Companies are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each company’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee record in September 2026.

Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says.

Garden State Circle is published locally in New Jersey by Jake Slowinski and covers Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com.

Which of These Companies Is Actually in These Towns

Most homeowners asking whether a company is “local” are really asking one question: will they come out for my small job? That is worth separating from geography, because the two are not the same thing.

On the question of geography, the answer is short. Four companies in this guide keep premises inside the five towns:

Curcio Plumbing, Heating & Cooling — 524 Lyons Road, Basking Ridge
Economy Service Co — 80 Mine Brook Road, Bernardsville
Ludlow Heating & Cooling — 71 Claremont Road, Bernardsville
Thomas Plumbing & Heating — 382 Penns Way, Basking Ridge

Good Tidings keeps an office at 31 South Finley Avenue in Basking Ridge and gives its main address as Clark, in Union County. Everyone else on this page works from somewhere else and travels here, which for this trade is ordinary rather than a defect.

On the second question — whether a company will take a single repair call rather than only quoting replacements — we are asking every company on this list directly, and their answers will be published here as they come in. It is not a question a website answers honestly, which is exactly why it is worth asking.

The Companies, Compared

Listed alphabetically. The middle two columns are two different things and the difference is the point: one reports what the company puts on its own website, the other reports the name the State Board of Examiners holds the licence under.

Company	Based in	Licence, as published on their own site	Master HVACR holder	Also published
A.J. Perri	Tinton Falls	19HC00378400	Anton J Cunningham · active	Plumbing 36BI01029400 (Thomas Kober) · NJ HIC 13VH1169330
Air Professionals Heating & Air Conditioning	Flemington	NJ HVACR License #19HC00061900	Scott Desch · active	Not published
American Dream Air LLC	Freehold	HVAC/R 19HC00735000	Not found by us	NJ HIC 13VH06352600
Binsky Home Service	Ewing, with a Somerset location	Not published	Not found by us	NJ HIC 13VH12955500
C & D Cooling & Heating	239 Morristown Rd, Gillette	Nj Contractor 19HC00025200	William Steven Smits · active	NJ HIC 13VH00160200
Curcio Plumbing, Heating & Cooling	524 Lyons Rd, Basking Ridge	HVAC License #1676	Vincent J Curcio III · active	NJ Plumbing Lic. #8900
Economy Service Co	80 Mine Brook Rd, Bernardsville	No website published	Not found by us	Not found by us
Good Tidings Plumbing, Heating & Cooling	Clark, with an office at 31 S Finley Ave, Basking Ridge	HVACR #19HC00550000	David McKenna · active	PL#36BI00863700
Hearth & Home Mechanical, LLC	Gillette	Not published	Not found by us	Not published
Jay’s Quality Air, LLC	Bridgewater	NJ Master HVAC License # 3593	Jason M Weber · active	NJ HIC 13VH04279000
Ludlow Heating & Cooling	71 Claremont Rd, Bernardsville	Not published	Not found by us	Lic. #13VH01029700, a home improvement contractor registration
Meyer & Depew	309 Lafayette Ave, Kenilworth	Lic. No. 485	Robert Clark Ring · active	NJ HIC Reg. 10535
One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Somerset	Somerset	License 19HC00691900	Not found by us	Not found by us
Princeton Air Conditioning	39 Everett Dr, Princeton Junction	S Needham — Master HVACR Lic. # 3980	Joseph S Needham · active	NJ HIC 13VH00255200 · plumbing #8389 · electrical #17479
Russo Bros. & Co.	27 Eagle Rock Ave, East Hanover	19HC00232900	Matthew C Russo · active	Plumbing 10163
Sam’s Air Control	1217 US-1, Edison	HVACR #19HC00508700	Igor Traspov · active	NJ HIC 13VH09138500
Service Experts North New Jersey	178-C Route 206, Hillsborough	License #19HC00580500	Not found by us	HIC 13VH06640200 · Plumbing 36BI01359800
Service Professionals	923 Rahway Ave, Union, with a second location in Little Falls	119HC00149800 — see the note below	Richard S Bogda · active	Plumbing 36BI00989700 · Electrical 34EB00790200
Skylands Energy Service	2 Thompson St, Raritan	19HC00395100	Craig James Miller · active	Master Plumber 36BI01319800 (Frank Bournias)
Sunrise Cooling & Heating Inc	Branchburg	Master HVACR #19HC00333400	Not found by us	Not published
Temp Control Heating & Air Conditioning	209 Main St, Woodbridge	19HC00277400	Shai S Lalush · active	Not published
Thomas Plumbing & Heating LLC	382 Penns Way, Basking Ridge	Not published	Not found by us	Not published
Valairco	1013 Kennedy Blvd, Manville	19HC00463200	Kevin J McHugh · active	NJ HIC 13VH02914900
Warren Heating and Cooling, LLC	274 Rick Rd, Milford	Master HVACR License #19HC00539300	Paul A Hewitt · active	Not published

Licence numbers and holders were verified against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee record and each company’s own website in September 2026. “Not published” means the company’s website was read and the fact is not on it. “Not found by us” means our search did not resolve it, and is a statement about our search rather than about the company.

A Note on Reading the Licence Column

Five of the twenty-four companies here publish a licence number that returns nothing when you type it in as printed. That is the single most common defect we found, and none of it is dishonest — every one of the five holds a current licence.

Four publish it in a shortened form — #1676, #3593, #3980, No. 485. All four resolve correctly once expanded to the full twelve-character format, and the full holder is what appears in the table above.

The fifth, Service Professionals, publishes 119HC00149800, which carries one digit too many. The licence is real and current: it reads 19HC00149800 and is held by Richard S Bogda. A homeowner checking the number as printed on the site would find nothing at all.

One company, Ludlow Heating & Cooling, publishes a number beginning 13VH. That is a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration, which is a real and current credential and a different one from a Master HVACR licence. It is reported in the final column, where it belongs.

Four companies name the licence holder themselves, alongside the number: Princeton Air, Meyer & Depew, Skylands Energy and A.J. Perri. That is the most complete form of the disclosure and the one this guide would like to be able to report for everybody.

The Companies

A.J. Perri, Tinton Falls

In business since 1971, A.J. Perri publishes its heating, plumbing and home improvement credentials in full with the licence holder named against each — Anton Cunningham for HVACR and Thomas Kober for plumbing.

Air Professionals Heating & Air Conditioning, Flemington

Air Professionals publishes its Master HVACR licence number in full on its own website, held by Scott Desch, which makes it one of the few companies serving these towns that a homeowner can verify without leaving the page.

American Dream Air LLC, Freehold

American Dream Air is a Freehold-based heating and cooling company listing service across central New Jersey.

Binsky Home Service, Ewing

Binsky is an eighty-year-old New Jersey mechanical company with a residential home-service division and a second location in Somerset.

C & D Cooling & Heating, Gillette

Operating from Morristown Road in Gillette, C & D publishes both its Master HVACR number and its New Jersey home improvement registration, and its work covers furnaces, boilers, central air and ductless mini-split systems.

Curcio Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, Basking Ridge

Founded in 1990 and based on Lyons Road, Curcio is one of four companies in this guide with premises inside the five towns, and the Master HVACR licence behind it is held by Vincent J Curcio III.

Economy Service Co, Bernardsville

Economy Service Co operates from Mine Brook Road in Bernardsville as a multigenerational family business and has no website of any kind, which is why several columns above read as they do.

Good Tidings Plumbing, Heating & Cooling

Good Tidings publishes a Master HVACR licence held by David McKenna and a New Jersey plumbing licence, and lists its main premises as Westfield Avenue in Clark with an office on South Finley Avenue in Basking Ridge.

Hearth & Home Mechanical, LLC, Gillette

Hearth & Home Mechanical is a veteran-owned company working out of Gillette on installations, replacements and seasonal maintenance; its website publishes no licence number, no street address and no named principal, and this guide reports that rather than filling the gaps from other sources.

Jay’s Quality Air, LLC, Bridgewater

Founded in 2006 and based in Bridgewater, Jay’s publishes a Master HVACR licence in short form that resolves to Jason M Weber, along with a New Jersey home improvement registration.

Ludlow Heating & Cooling, Bernardsville

Ludlow has operated from Claremont Road in Bernardsville since 1954 and runs an in-house sheet metal fabrication shop, which is why it is the company on this list most often used for homes whose ductwork has to be built to fit rather than ordered.

Meyer & Depew, Kenilworth

Meyer & Depew has operated for more than seventy years from Lafayette Avenue in Kenilworth and names Robert C. Ring as its Master HVACR contractor directly on its own website.

One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Somerset

One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning is a franchised heating and cooling operation working out of Somerset with round-the-clock scheduling.

Princeton Air Conditioning, Princeton Junction

Princeton Air publishes the name of the licence holder alongside every licence it carries — heating and cooling, plumbing and electrical, each with the individual named — which is the most complete licence disclosure of any company in this guide.

Russo Bros. & Co., East Hanover

In business since 1954 and operating from Eagle Rock Avenue in East Hanover, Russo Bros publishes its Master HVACR number in full, held by Matthew C Russo, alongside a New Jersey plumbing licence.

Sam’s Air Control, Edison

Sam’s Air Control was founded in 2014 and works from Route 1 in Edison, publishing both a Master HVACR licence held by Igor Traspov and a New Jersey home improvement registration.

Service Experts North New Jersey, Hillsborough

Service Experts is a national heating and cooling network whose North New Jersey branch operates out of Hillsborough with twenty-four-hour emergency dispatch.

Service Professionals, Union

Service Professionals runs heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical work from Rahway Avenue in Union with a second location in Little Falls, and publishes a licence number for all three trades — the heating and cooling licence is held by Richard S Bogda.

Skylands Energy Service, Raritan

Skylands Energy names Craig Miller as its Master HVACR contractor and Frank Bournias as its master plumber on its own website, with both licence numbers published in full.

Sunrise Cooling & Heating Inc, Branchburg

Sunrise is a second-generation family business operating in Branchburg since 1984 under Jon and Candace Kerr, with particular experience in condominium system replacements in Bedminster.

Temp Control Heating & Air Conditioning, Woodbridge

Operating since 2003 from Main Street in Woodbridge, Temp Control publishes its Master HVACR licence number in full.

Thomas Plumbing & Heating LLC, Basking Ridge

Thomas Plumbing & Heating is a small owner-run operation based on Penns Way in Basking Ridge handling residential heating and plumbing work.

Valairco, Manville

Valairco has served Somerset County from Kennedy Boulevard in Manville since 1968 and publishes both its Master HVACR licence and its New Jersey home improvement registration in full.

Warren Heating and Cooling, LLC, Milford

Despite the name, Warren Heating and Cooling works from Rick Road in Milford in Hunterdon County, and has published its Master HVACR licence number in full since starting in 2003.

Common Questions

How do I check whether a New Jersey HVAC contractor is licensed?

Go to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licence verification system at newjersey.mylicense.com, choose Person Search, set the profession to HVACR and the licence type to Master HVACR Contractor, and search by the licence number or the holder’s surname. The result gives you the holder’s name, the licence number and whether the status is active. It is free and it takes about ninety seconds.

What is a Master HVACR contractor’s licence?

It is the New Jersey licence that permits heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration work. It is issued to an individual, not to a company, after an examination, and it carries a $3,000 bond and a continuing education requirement at each renewal. A company performs HVAC work under the licence of a named individual associated with it.

Does the licence number have to be on the company’s website?

New Jersey requires a licensed Master HVACR contractor to display the licence number and the designation on business vehicles, websites, invoices, stationery, contracts and advertising. In practice many companies serving these towns do not, which is what the middle column of the table above is reporting.

Is a 13VH number the same thing?

No. A number beginning 13VH is a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration. It is a real credential and worth having, but it is a different regime from the HVACR licence and it does not tell you who holds the heating and cooling licence behind the work.

Does it matter that a company is based outside these towns?

Not on its own. Heating and cooling work travels to the customer, so where a company keeps its office says less than most homeowners assume. What matters more is whether they will take your particular job and how quickly they answer in January, which is worth asking directly.

Who Governs Heating and Cooling Work in the Somerset Hills, NJ

Heating and cooling work in New Jersey answers to two state agencies with confusingly similar names, and they do different things. The licence belongs to the State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors, part of the Division of Consumer Affairs — (973) 504-6250 — which issues the Master HVACR licence in the table above and runs the search described in the questions above. The permit belongs to the Uniform Construction Code, N.J.A.C. 5:23, written by the Department of Community Affairs, Division of Codes and Standards — (609) 292-7899 — and enforced by each municipality’s own construction office, listed below. New Jersey adopted the 2024 editions of its construction subcodes on August 17, 2026; the mechanical subcode is the International Mechanical Code 2024 (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.20) and the fuel gas subcode is the International Fuel Gas Code 2024 (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.22), per the Division’s current-codes table, read September 2, 2026.

Municipality	Construction permit office, as the town names it	Phone	Construction Official, as published	Hours, as published
Bernards Township (Basking Ridge)	Construction Code Division	(908) 204-3172	Dennis Bettler	Mon–Fri 7:00am–3:00pm
Bernardsville Borough	Construction Department	908-766-3000	Jeffrey Heiss	Mon–Fri 8:30am–4:30pm
Bedminster Township	Construction & Code Enforcement	(908) 212-7000 ext. 422	Vincent Tamburri	Town Hall Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm
Far Hills Borough	Construction Department	908.234.0611 ext. 11	Stephen Mahoney	By appointment

Every office above was opened and read on September 2, 2026. Names are published only where the municipality publishes them.

Four municipalities, four offices, and they do not keep the same hours: Bernards Township’s Construction Code Division opens at 7:00am and stops taking applications at 3:00pm, Bernardsville’s runs 8:30 to 4:30, Bedminster’s town hall 8:00 to 4:00, and Far Hills sees people by appointment. Basking Ridge is not a municipality — it is a section of Bernards Township, and its permits come from the Bernards office on South Maple Avenue, not from the municipal building on Collyer Lane. Far Hills states the sequence on its own page: a zoning permit must be obtained before a construction permit is submitted. Three of the four offices share subcode officials — the same electrical subcode official serves Bernards, Bernardsville and Far Hills — which is normal for small boroughs and is why an inspector may be in only one of them on a given day.

Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Whether a particular job needs a permit is interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what each municipality published, with the date we checked it — confirm with the office before you rely on it, and if any of it has changed, the correction address at the foot of this page is the fastest way to tell us.

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Something Out of Date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a licence number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a company that publishes a licence number we have recorded as absent is exactly the kind of correction we want.

And if you run a heating and cooling company that should be on this list and is not, write to us. We would rather be told than be incomplete. The test is the same one every company here cleared: that you install, repair or replace residential heating and cooling systems for homeowners in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills or Peapack-Gladstone. A permit pulled in one of those townships, a completed job, or your licence will do it. Show us that and you go on the page.

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