About Us

Built for Vermont Winters, One Home at a Time

Green Mountain Heating & Air is an HVAC company serving homeowners across Vermont, and we’ve been at it for 11 years. Our founder started on heating and cooling systems in the Burlington area, where older homes and long, cold winters leave little room for guesswork. That background shapes how we quote: we look at how each house is actually built and used before we recommend equipment.

Most customers call us for AC installation, furnace repair, and honest answers about whether a fix will hold through another heating season. A detail we check every time: equipment sizing. An oversized furnace short-cycles and wears out faster, and we’ve replaced plenty of units another contractor installed too big for the house.

Our technicians are EPA Section 608-certified, we’re insured and bonded, and we hold ACCA membership. We give clear estimates before work starts, respect occupied homes, and schedule reliably statewide. That’s the whole promise explain the work, arrive prepared, and leave you with heating and cooling suited to your Vermont home.

Ethan Parker and the Crew on Your Job

Ethan Parker founded Green Mountain Heating & Air after years working on heating and cooling systems in the Burlington area. “I started out working on heating and cooling systems in the Burlington area, where older homes and long, cold winters leave little room for guesswork,” he says. “I built this company to give Vermont homeowners clear advice on AC installation and furnace repairs, with attention to the way each home is built and used.”

The team coordinates appointments from Burlington and schedules service across Vermont’s regional markets, adjusting for busy heating and cooling seasons. Before work begins, technicians explain the plan, confirm equipment needs, and coordinate applicable permits and job-site details with you.

One habit worth knowing about: we measure before we order. Duct dimensions, clearances, and existing fuel lines get verified on the first visit, so the equipment that shows up fits the space it’s going into. Comfort for Vermont’s changing seasons comes from that kind of prep, not from luck.

Signs It’s Time to Make the Call

Most homeowners wait until a system fails completely but these warnings show up first.

• Furnace blowing cold air: often a flame or ignition issue; a cold house in a Vermont January is an emergency, not an inconvenience.
• AC running but not cooling: usually low refrigerant or a failing capacitor, and the compressor keeps burning energy for nothing.
• Furnace clicks but will not start: the ignitor or flame sensor is the usual suspect, and repeated attempts can trip a safety lockout.
• Uneven temperatures between rooms: common in older homes near Church Street Marketplace where additions and updated windows changed the original heat load.
• Air conditioner leaking water indoors: a clogged condensate drain can soak a ceiling fast.
• Furnace making banging noises: delayed ignition or duct expansion one of these needs attention now.
• AC breaker keeps tripping: a hard-starting compressor or shorted component; resetting it repeatedly risks damage.

Any one of these is worth a phone call before it becomes a no-heat night.

How We Run a Job, Start to Finish

Every job follows the same sequence: assess, quote, permit, install, verify. We confirm mechanical permit requirements before work begins with the City of Burlington Department of Permitting and Inspections for Burlington jobs, and in line with the Vermont Fire and Building Safety Code for fuel-burning equipment elsewhere in the state. Residential work follows Vermont Residential Building Energy Standards, and commercial jobs follow the Commercial Building Energy Standards.

Our EPA Section 608-certified technicians handle all refrigerant work, and we recover refrigerant before any equipment disposal, per EPA rules. Job sites run under OSHA safety practices.

Here’s the detail out-of-town contractors miss: combustion air. Tight, weatherized Vermont homes often can’t supply enough air for a fuel-burning furnace on their own, so we verify the combustion zone before setting equipment. Skip that step and you get spillage, soot, and a carbon monoxide risk in a house that was just sealed up for efficiency.

We also confirm efficiency programs through the Vermont Department of Public Service when a project qualifies. Clear estimates come before any of this never after.

Talk It Through Before You Decide

If a furnace or AC question has been sitting on your list, a ten-minute conversation is the cheapest way to settle it. Call us at (555) 010-0000 and we’ll walk through what you’re seeing, what it usually means, and whether a visit makes sense no pressure either way.

If it does, we’ll set a time that works and show up with a written estimate before any wrench turns. That’s how we’ve done it for 11 years, and it’s how we’d want to be treated in our own homes.