About Westerhouse Heating and Cooling: Your Trusted Kansas HVAC Experts Since 1977
Nearly 50 Years of Reliable HVAC Service in Eudora, Lawrence & Surrounding Kansas Communities
Westerhouse Heating and Cooling has been operating in Eudora, Kansas since 1977. That’s nearly fifty years of Kansas winters and summers — furnaces that quit in February, air conditioners that give up on the hottest afternoon of July, and all the routine maintenance work in between. The company started small and local, and it’s still both of those things today. Aaron and David run it now, and the approach hasn’t changed much from the beginning: do the work right, be straight with people about what they actually need, and treat every customer the way you’d want to be treated if it was your own home.
Our Story: Built on Kansas Values
When Westerhouse started in 1977, Eudora was a smaller community than it is now and the heating and cooling business looked different. There was no internet to compare reviews, no way to find someone quickly on a phone, and people relied entirely on word of mouth and personal reputation. That’s still how most of our business comes in — a neighbor tells a neighbor, a longtime customer sends their adult kid our way when they buy their first house.
The founders understood that in eastern Kansas, where summer humidity makes 95-degree days genuinely oppressive and a hard winter can drop overnight temperatures well below zero, people needed a company they could actually trust. Not one that would sell them a new unit when their existing one had years of life left. Not one that would give a vague estimate and let the final bill be a surprise. Just honest work at a fair price, done by people who knew what they were doing.
That’s still the operating principle. It’s why customers who called us for the first time in the 1980s are still calling today — and sometimes sending their grown kids our way when they move into their first home.
What We Do
Westerhouse handles the full range of residential and commercial HVAC. On the heating side, that means furnace repair, furnace service, and furnace installation, along with heat pump and ductless mini-split systems. On the cooling side, we handle air conditioner repair, air conditioning service, and air conditioner installation — including both central and ductless systems.
We also work on indoor air quality equipment. Whole-house humidifiers and whole-house air cleaners are the two most common additions our customers ask about, and both make a real difference in how comfortable a home feels through a Kansas winter or a humid summer. If you’ve been dealing with dry, scratchy air from December through February or aggravated allergies in the spring, those are conversations worth having.
For commercial customers, we offer heating and cooling installation, ongoing preventive maintenance programs, energy efficiency work, and emergency service. Commercial systems are a different conversation than residential — the loads are larger, the equipment is more specialized, and the cost of a breakdown during business hours is more significant. We have the experience to handle those jobs correctly.
One thing we consistently try to do is right-size equipment recommendations. An oversized air conditioner runs in short bursts and doesn’t remove enough humidity from the air — which in Kansas summers is a real problem, not a minor inconvenience. A furnace that’s too large cycles constantly and wears itself out faster. Getting the sizing right at installation is some of the most important work we do, and it’s the kind of thing that shows up in your energy bills and your comfort for years afterward.
American Standard Excellence
We’re an authorized American Standard dealer, and that reflects a deliberate choice.
There are a lot of HVAC equipment brands, and they don’t all hold up equally well under the conditions eastern Kansas systems face — extreme summer heat and humidity, cold winters, and the kind of variable swing between seasons that puts equipment through its paces year after year. American Standard builds systems that perform consistently over the long haul, backs them with strong warranty coverage, and offers the efficiency ratings that translate to real savings on monthly utility bills.
It’s the equipment we recommend to our own families, which makes it easy to recommend to everyone else. We wouldn’t install something in your home that we wouldn’t put in our own.
Meet the Westerhouse Team
Every technician at Westerhouse is licensed and insured. That sounds like a baseline expectation — and it should be — but it’s worth saying directly because not every company operating in this area meets it. Beyond licensing, our people undergo continuous training on the systems we install and service. The technology in modern HVAC equipment changes quickly: variable-speed compressors, communicating thermostats, higher-efficiency systems with more sophisticated controls. A technician who hasn’t stayed current will miss things. You can meet the full team here.
We’re also actively involved with the Eudora High School Technical Trade Program, supporting students who are learning the skilled trades. HVAC is hands-on work that requires real expertise, and there’s a genuine shortage of qualified technicians coming into the field across the country. Helping train people in this community — and keeping that knowledge and those careers rooted here — is something we care about beyond just the business side of it.
Our service philosophy isn’t complicated: we recommend what you actually need, not what produces the highest invoice. We tell you what something is going to cost before we start. We do the work the way it’s supposed to be done. And if you have questions about what’s going on with your system, we’ll take the time to explain it so you can make informed decisions going forward. After nearly fifty years, that approach has worked pretty well.
Serving Kansas Communities
Home base has always been Eudora, but our service area has grown considerably over the decades. Lawrence has been a consistent part of our work for a long time — the city has a wide range of housing, from older homes near campus to newer construction further out, and each brings different system types and maintenance needs. We’ve been in enough Lawrence basements and attics to know what we’re likely to find before we open the panel.
Baldwin City is a smaller community with a lot of long-term residents who want a service relationship they can count on year after year. DeSoto has grown significantly over the past decade and brings a wave of newer construction with modern equipment that needs proper setup and ongoing care. In Johnson County — Lenexa, Overland Park, Shawnee — we’ve built a base of customers who prefer a local company with a real track record over a national chain where the technician changes every visit. Tonganoxie rounds out our Douglas County coverage to the west.
If you’re in any of these areas and want to talk about your heating or cooling system, we’re at (785) 542-2707.
Emergency Service When You Need It Most
Kansas weather doesn’t schedule itself around business hours. A furnace that quits on a February night isn’t something that can wait until Monday morning, and an air conditioner that stops working during a July heat wave is a health concern — not just an inconvenience — for older residents and families with young children. Heat indexes in eastern Kansas can sit above 105 degrees for days at a stretch. We take those calls seriously.
Westerhouse offers emergency heating and cooling service seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. If your system fails outside of normal business hours, call us. That’s what we’re here for.
Our Commitment to Kansas
Westerhouse sponsors local youth sports teams and participates in community events in Eudora and the surrounding area. We’ve been part of this community for nearly fifty years, which means we’ve watched a lot of kids grow up here — and in some cases, we’re now servicing the furnaces in the homes those same kids bought as adults.
The Eudora High School Technical Trade Program partnership matters to us for the same reason. This community has supported Westerhouse for five decades. Investing back into it — whether that’s sponsoring a youth league or helping train the next generation of skilled tradespeople — isn’t a marketing strategy. It’s just what you do when you’ve been in a place long enough to care about what it becomes.
Maintenance Agreements for Peace of Mind
For homeowners who want to take the guesswork out of keeping their system maintained, we offer a yearly maintenance agreement covering both air conditioning and heating. Spring AC service, fall furnace inspection, priority scheduling during busy season, and discounts on parts or repairs if something comes up during the visit. Most customers on the plan tell us the same thing: they don’t want to think about scheduling anymore. They just want the system looked at before each season. That’s exactly what the agreement is built for.
Ready to Experience the Westerhouse Difference?
Westerhouse has been here since 1977. We’re at 104 W. 20th St. in Eudora, the same community we’ve always operated from, and we plan to be here for the next fifty years. Whether you need a repair, an installation estimate, a second opinion on something another company told you, or just a straight answer about whether your existing system is worth keeping — give us a call at (785) 542-2707 or reach out through the contact page. We’ll talk through it.
Call (785) 542-2707 or schedule online to get started.
