Dayton Reporter

Detmer and Sons, an HVAC company serving the Dayton area, recently marked its 45th year in business.

“Back in 1978, my grandpa Frank Sr. and dad Frank Jr. were both in the HVAC industry, and they decided that they were going to go out and start a business on their own,” Matt Detmer, the company’s Vice President of business development, told the Dayton Reporter. “So they transitioned in the industry to create their own business and started it there.”

During that time, Detmer told the Dayton Reporter, the company’s biggest change came through the purchase of a four additional HVAC companies throughout the Dayton area. Those acquisitions include Dayton-based Hussong Sheet Metal Company, Springfield-based Brockton Furnace Company and McPhearson’s Heating and Cooling, and Clark’s Sheet Metal, located in Carlisle.

Detmer and Sons was acquired by Ace Hardware in August, a move Detmer said pairs “Ace’s skill and scale on a wider assortment of products at lower cost with the award-winning service for which Ace and Detmer have become famous.”  

Matt’s brother, Eric, is president of the company, which provides heating, geothermal and air conditioning services to residential and business customers in Dayton, Beaver Creek, Centerville, Oakwood, Kettering, New Carlyle, and Springfield.

Located at 1170 Channingway Dr. in Fairborn, the company won the Better Business Bureau’s Eclipse Integrity Award, and has 835 Google reviews with an almost-perfect rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars.