Westerhouse Heating and Cooling are your Experts for Repair, Service, and Installation.
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Trusted Heating and Cooling Services Since 1977
When your furnace quits on a January night with the wind chill sitting below zero, or your air conditioner gives out in the middle of an August heat wave, you don’t want a stranger from three counties over showing up at your door. You want somebody who already knows your street, who’s probably worked on the house two doors down, and who’s going to answer the phone when you call. That’s been our job in Eudora, Kansas since 1977 — and it’s the same job this company was built to do: keep Douglas County families warm in the winter and cool in the summer, without the runaround a lot of other outfits put people through.
Local and Family-Owned
Westerhouse is still family-owned and headquartered right here at 104 W 20th St. in Eudora. Aaron and David have built the company’s reputation the slow way — one furnace repair and one air conditioner install at a time, across Eudora, Lawrence, DeSoto, and Baldwin City — by showing up when we say we will and doing the job right the first time, even when that means telling a customer their system doesn’t need what they thought it did. We’re also proud to work with younger people wanting to get into our profession because training the next generation of HVAC technicians matters to us almost as much as fixing what’s broken in your house today.
Heating in Eudora and Across Douglas County
Kansas winters don’t leave much room for a heating system that’s on its last legs. When temperatures drop below freezing and the wind chill makes it feel even colder, a working furnace isn’t a comfort item; it’s a safety issue for anyone in the house — kids, older parents, and pets. We handle furnace repair, new furnace installation, and everything in between for homes across Eudora, Lawrence, and Douglas County, and our technicians have worked on enough different makes and models over the years that an unfamiliar unit rarely slows us down.
Older furnaces need a different kind of attention than the high-efficiency systems going into new construction today, and we’ve learned to read both. A twenty-year-old furnace that’s been maintained right can often be nursed along for a few more winters instead of replaced outright, and we’ll tell you that even though a repair ticket is smaller than an install. When a furnace really is done, we size the replacement to your actual house — square footage, insulation, window count, how the ductwork is laid out — instead of quoting whatever unit happens to be sitting on the truck. A broken furnace also tends to happen at the worst possible time, so emergency heating calls get priority on our schedule, not a “we’ll try to get to you Thursday.”
Maintenance is an Investment
Furnace service — the annual tune-up a lot of homeowners skip — is honestly one of the best investments in the house. We’ve got customers running fifteen- and twenty-year-old furnaces that still perform like they did the day we installed them, and the difference almost always comes down to whether the system was serviced every year or was ignored until something failed.
Air Conditioning for Lawrence, Eudora, and Beyond
Northeast Kansas summers are hot and humid, with plenty of afternoons in the mid-90s and the occasional stretch over 100. When the air conditioner quits during one of those days, it’s not a minor inconvenience — it’s a house that stops being livable by mid-afternoon. We handle air conditioner repair for homes throughout Eudora, Lawrence, and DeSoto, and our goal is to turn same-day calls around the same day.
Lower Bills with New Efficient Equipment
A system that’s running constantly without keeping the house comfortable, or a customer calling us back every few months, is usually telling us it’s closer to the end than the middle of its life. Today’s air conditioners are way more efficient than what was being installed even ten years ago, so for a lot of households, replacement pays for part of itself in lower summer electric bills. When we do an air conditioner installation, we’re careful about sizing, airflow, and refrigerant charge — the details that decide whether a new unit actually performs the way the spec sheet says it should, rather than just being new.
Cooling maintenance matters just as much as heating maintenance, and it’s easy to put off since nobody’s shivering if it slips. Air conditioner service ahead of the summer — cleaning coils, checking refrigerant, testing the electrical components — is what keeps a system efficient and keeps it from failing on the one week you really need it.
Indoor Air Quality and Whole-Home Humidifiers
The air inside a Kansas home carries more than people realize — dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores — and it gets worse at the exact times you’d expect: spring, when everything outside is blooming, and winter, when the house is sealed up tight against the cold. We install whole-home air purifiers, filtration upgrades, and UV germicidal lights as part of our indoor air quality solutions, and it’s one of the areas where a fairly small change makes a noticeable difference in how a house actually feels to live in.
Humidity- A Summer and Winter Issue
Humidity is its own issue, and it’s the one we probably get the most calls about. Kansas winter air is dry to begin with, and running a furnace dries it out further, which is where the dry skin, the static shocks, the cracked wood trim, and the sinus irritation all come from. A whole-home humidifier tied into the furnace fixes that automatically, without a homeowner having to babysit a portable unit room to room. Summer runs the other direction — excess humidity makes a hot day feel worse and gives mold a place to grow — and while a properly sized air conditioner pulls out a good amount of moisture on its own, some homes need added dehumidification to feel right even with the AC running.
Serving Eudora, Lawrence, DeSoto, Baldwin City, and All of Douglas County
Our service area covers Eudora, Lawrence, DeSoto, Baldwin City, Tonganoxie, Lenexa, Overland Park, Shawnee, and the rest of Douglas County and Johnson County. We know these towns because we’ve been working in them for decades. Eudora and the older parts of Lawrence have a lot of houses built well before modern HVAC standards existed, while the newer construction going up in DeSoto and around Johnson County comes with its own set of sizing and ductwork questions — we’ve done enough of both to know what each one needs.
We are Local
Being locally owned means something practical, not just something we put in an ad. When you call Westerhouse, you’re calling neighbors, not a dispatch center reading from a script in another state. Our technicians live in these towns, our kids go to school here, and our reputation is the only thing keeping the phone ringing — there’s no corporate brand carrying us if we start cutting corners.
Why Homeowners Trust Westerhouse
We’re an authorized American Standard dealer, which means our installations meet a manufacturer standard, not just our own opinion of what “good enough” looks like, and it’s part of why our new-system warranties hold up when a homeowner needs them. Every technician on the truck is licensed and trained, and we diagnose the actual problem before we start recommending fixes — we’re not paid more for finding more wrong with your system, so there’s no incentive to.
Trust is Earned
Pricing is upfront before any work starts, with no add-on surprises once the job is underway, and we won’t push a repair or a full replacement system you don’t need. If a fifteen-year-old furnace can run three more winters with a $200 repair instead of a $6,000 replacement, that’s what we’ll tell you, and we’d rather earn your call next time than your money this one time.
Whether it’s an emergency repair at two in the morning, a maintenance plan to keep a system running the way it should, or a full installation for a house that’s outgrown its old equipment, our dedicated team at Westerhouse Heating and Cooling is here for Eudora, Lawrence, DeSoto, Baldwin City, and the rest of Douglas County. Contact us at (785) 542-2707 to schedule service or ask for a free estimate — we still answer our own phones.