The shop that picks up the phone
Northwind Heating & Air is a small, family-owned HVAC company in Grand Rapids. We've built the whole business around being the contractor people actually recommend to their neighbors.
We started with one van and a simple idea: show up when you said you would, charge what you quoted, and fix it right so you're not calling back in a month. Fifteen years later that's still the entire strategy. We've grown to a handful of trucks and a service manager who guards the schedule, but you still get the same technicians, and the owner still runs the hardest emergency calls himself.
We're deliberately not a franchise. There's no call center in another state, no high-pressure “comfort advisor” whose bonus depends on selling you a new system. When we tell you a $200 part will buy you three more years, that's because it will.
Who shows up
Ray Okafor
Owner / Master Technician
Started fixing furnaces with his uncle at 16, bought the business in 2014. Still runs emergency calls on the worst weekends because he won't ask the crew to do something he won't.
Sofia Marín
Service Manager
Runs dispatch and makes sure the window we gave you is the window we hit. If your appointment slips, she's the one who calls you before you call us.
Dale Whitmore
Lead Install Technician
NATE-certified, 22 years in the trade. Does the load calculation on every replacement so you get the system the house actually needs.
Licensed, certified, insured
The paperwork that means you're covered if something goes wrong — and that the person in your attic actually knows what they're doing.
- Licensed HVAC contractor — TDLR #EXAMPLE12341241
- NATE-certified technicians
- W-2 employees only — no subcontracted service work
- EPA 608 certified for refrigerant handling
Service area
We cover Grand Rapids and the north Austin metro, plus a few miles past each town line. If you're close to the edge, call and ask.
- East Grand Rapids
- Wyoming
- Kentwood
- Walker
- Grandville
- Rockford
- Ada
Give the local shop a shot
Next time something's off with the heating or cooling, call us before the big franchise. Worst case, you get an honest second opinion.