Heating and Cooling Contractors in Bridgewater, NJ: Who Actually Holds the License

Published by Garden State Circle — Tiffany and Jake Slowinski · Bridgewater (Martinsville) · Branchburg · Raritan · Bound Brook

The Guide: Heating and Cooling Contractors in Bridgewater, NJ

Every heating and cooling contractor in Bridgewater, with “License, as published on their own site”, “Master HVACR holder” and “Also published” for each, checked September 2026.

See the Businesses

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 license 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 Bridgewater and Martinsville and you will find a dozen companies described as “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 license and exactly what the state record says. Where a company publishes nothing, the guide says that too.

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 license under.

Company	Based in	License, as published on their own site	Master HVACR holder	Also published
Arctic Air Conditioning	1 Pleasant Valley Rd, Old Bridge	HVAC #19HC00271800	Anthony Perriello · active	Plumbing 36BI01035900 · Electrical 34EB01393400 · HIC 13VH01741400
Binsky Home Service	Ewing, with a Somerset location	Not published	Not found by us	NJ HIC 13VH12955500
Bres-Core LLC	Not found by us	NJMHVAC #: 1075	Not found by us	Not found by us
Cool-O-Matic	409 N Main St, Manville	HVACR 19HC00243800	Not found by us	Not published
Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical	681 E Main St, Bridgewater	Not found by us	Not found by us	Not found by us
Guaranteed Service	2675 NJ-70, Manasquan	Not published	Not found by us	Not published
Jay’s Quality Air, LLC	662 Bellerive Ct, Bridgewater	NJ Master HVAC License # 3593	Jason M Weber · active	NJ HIC 13VH04279000
One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Somerset	Somerset	License 19HC00691900	Not found by us	Not found by us
Perfect Air & Water Services	Not found by us	NJ HVAC Lic. #19HC00140400	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
Service Experts North New Jersey	Hillsborough	License #19HC00580500	Not found by us	Not found by us
Skylands Energy Service	2 Thompson St, Raritan	19HC00395100	Craig James Miller · active	Master Plumber 36BI01319800 (Frank Bournias)
Sunrise Cooling & Heating Inc	10 County Line Rd, Branchburg	Master HVACR #19HC00333400	Not found by us	Not published
Valairco	1013 Kennedy Blvd, Manville	19HC00463200	Kevin J McHugh · active	NJ HIC 13VH02914900

License 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.

The Companies

Arctic Air Conditioning, Old Bridge

Founded in Marlboro in 1977, Arctic Air publishes all four of its New Jersey licenses in full — heating and cooling, plumbing, electrical and home improvement — with the HVACR license held by Anthony Perriello.

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.

Bres-Core LLC

Bres-Core is a local contractor specialising in the sale, service and installation of all major HVAC brands; we could not resolve its premises or its license, and we have written to the company.

Cool-O-Matic, Manville

A veteran-owned business on North Main Street in Manville, Cool-O-Matic is an authorised Carrier dealer specialising in custom ductwork and whole-home energy assessments before it sizes a replacement.

Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical, Bridgewater

Copperhead is a family-owned business on East Main Street in Bridgewater covering plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical work, and is one of only two companies in this guide with a confirmed Bridgewater address.

Guaranteed Service, Manasquan

Guaranteed Service runs a twenty-four-hour operation from Route 70 in Manasquan covering heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical work across central New Jersey.

Jay’s Quality Air, LLC, Bridgewater

Founded in 2006 and working from Bellerive Court in Bridgewater, Jay’s is a small family business focused on residential maintenance, ductwork replacement and mini-splits, and its license is held by Jason M Weber.

One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Somerset

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

Perfect Air & Water Services

Perfect Air & Water Services is listed as serving Bridgewater; we could not resolve its premises or its license, and we have written to the company.

Princeton Air Conditioning, Princeton Junction

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

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.

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 license numbers published in full.

Sunrise Cooling & Heating Inc, Branchburg

Sunrise is a second-generation family business operating from County Line Road in Branchburg since 1984 under Jon and Candace Kerr.

Valairco, Manville

Valairco has served Somerset County from Kennedy Boulevard in Manville since 1968, runs a twenty-four-hour line, and publishes its heating and cooling license — held by Kevin J McHugh — in full.

Common Questions

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

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

What is a Master HVACR contractor’s license?

It is the New Jersey license 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 license of a named individual associated with it.

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

New Jersey requires a licensed Master HVACR contractor to display the license 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 license and it does not tell you who holds the heating and cooling license behind the work.

Who Governs Heating and Cooling Work in Bridgewater, NJ

Heating and cooling work in New Jersey answers to two state agencies with confusingly similar names, and they do different things. The license 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 license 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
Bridgewater (Martinsville)	Code Enforcement	(908) 725-6300 ext. 5560	John Tillotson	Mon–Fri 9:00am–4:30pm
Bound Brook	Office of Construction and Code Enforcement	732-356-0833 ext. 630	Not published	Mon–Fri 8:30am–4:30pm
Branchburg	Building & Code Enforcement	908-526-1300 ext. 147	John Tamburini (Building & Code Official)	Mon–Fri 7:00am–3:30pm
Raritan	Not found by us	Not found by us	Not found by us	Not found by us

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

Martinsville is inside Bridgewater Township and uses the township’s office. Bridgewater does not call that office “Construction” — it is Code Enforcement, and it publishes its own when is a permit required list — while the township’s Zoning Department, at ext. 5541 and on different hours, publishes a second list of its own (decks, sheds, fences, pools, standby generators, signs). Neither page links to the other, so a deck or a generator can need both. Branchburg’s Building & Code Enforcement office opens at 7:00am and closes at 3:30pm, earlier than the township offices around it, and its head is titled Building & Code Official rather than Construction Official. Bound Brook’s page carries three names for one office and lists a Director rather than a Construction Official. Hillsborough’s permits page says to check with its Zoning Department before applying for a building permit, and its website did not load in one of our browsers on the day we read it — if the link fails, the phone number is the route.

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.

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 in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Bridgewater (Martinsville) · Branchburg · Raritan · Bound Brook. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

How We Selected These Companies

A company appears here if it installs, repairs or replaces residential heating and cooling systems for homeowners in Bridgewater (Martinsville) · Branchburg · Raritan · Bound Brook.

That is the whole test, and it is deliberately a low bar. Heating and cooling is work that travels to the customer, so where a company keeps its office is a fact in the table rather than a reason to leave it out.

The license is not the gate. It is the first column. Making it a condition of entry would delete companies from the page 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.

Fourteen companies meet the test. They are listed alphabetically.

Which of These Companies Is Actually Nearby

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.

Three companies in this guide keep premises inside Bridgewater Township:

Copperhead Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical — 681 East Main Street
Jay’s Quality Air — 662 Bellerive Court
Bres-Core LLC, whose premises we could not confirm

The rest work from Manville, Branchburg, Raritan, Somerset, Hillsborough and further out, and travel in. For this trade that 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.

A Note on Reading the License Column

Three companies here publish their license in a shortened form — #3593, #3980 and #1075 — which cannot be typed into the state lookup and returned. The first two resolve correctly once expanded to the full twelve-character format, and the full holder is what appears in the table above.

It is also worth separating two things that look alike. A number beginning 13VH is a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration, and a number beginning 36BI is a master plumber. Both are real credentials and neither tells you who holds the heating and cooling license behind the work.

Something Out of Date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a license 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 license 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 Bridgewater. A permit pulled in one of those municipalities, a completed job, or your license will do it. Show us that and you go on the page.

admin@gardenstatecircle.com

Something out of date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a license, a service area, or whether they still do that trade — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly.

admin@gardenstatecircle.com