Advance Air & Heat Co., Inc.

Most of the people who write about Advance Air & Heat aren't homeowners — they're facilities managers and plant operators. One 2022 reviewer described a paint-booth heating problem that every other company wanted to solve by replacing the unit; Advance Air came in on a vendor's recommendation and had production running again in two days. The company works out of 21 Barnabas Rd in Marion and describes itself as a commercial HVAC, refrigeration and building-automation contractor serving commercial, industrial, public and non-profit clients across southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Rhode Island. It says Roger Lamy founded it in 1986 and that his daughter, Karen Lamy DeSousa, has run it since 2003 — about 40 years in business by its own count — and it describes itself as a Certified Woman-Owned Business (WBE), though that is the company's own description rather than a registry-confirmed certification. Its Massachusetts HVAC licence, 727-SM-B, is active and held in the company's own name. The written history is small but uniformly warm: six comments carrying a 5-star Google average across 14 ratings, running from 2022 to April 2025. A 2022 reviewer said the technicians "have the Midas touch" and arrive ready to get the work going; a 2023 reviewer called the company "one of the best in the business and a perfect match for your commercial building." In 2020, the trade group MCAA reported that the company donated technician time to ready two shuttered New Bedford nursing facilities for COVID-19 patient overflow. Two things are worth raising on a first call. The written history is genuinely thin — six comments spread over three years, with nothing newer than April 2025 — so ask for references on a job like yours rather than leaning on the star average. And what the company advertises is commercial work: refrigeration, building controls and round-the-clock service for businesses and public buildings. A 2025 reviewer credits it with a window installation, which sits outside everything else it describes doing, so pin down the scope directly if your job is residential. For a commercial building, senior-living campus or plant needing HVAC, refrigeration or controls in southeastern Massachusetts, this is a long-established, licensed shop with a small but unblemished set of accounts behind it. Confirm the WBE certification directly if that matters to your procurement, and get scope and service area in writing before booking.