DeLong & Sons HVAC is a family-owned company just up the road from Oley, PA, and the open acreage and older stone homes of the Oley Valley are exactly the kind of rural properties ground-source systems fit best. We handle full geothermal installation along with furnace, boiler, heat pump, air conditioning, and plumbing work, so an Oley homeowner can call one local crew for the whole house instead of juggling separate specialists.
With over 15 years of experience, we know the realities of servicing farms and historic homesteads out here: no natural-gas mains on most roads, private wells and septic, and heating bills that ride the price of oil and propane. Call 484-638-2837 for upfront pricing and honest recommendations from a crew that works these back roads every week.
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Follow UsGeothermal makes more sense in Oley than in almost any other corner of Berks County, and it comes down to the land. A ground-source system moves heat between your home and the stable temperature of the earth a few feet down, which stays roughly the same year-round no matter how cold the January wind gets or how hot an August afternoon runs. That steady ground temperature is what lets one system both heat and cool a home while using far less energy than burning oil or propane.
Most of Oley Township has no natural-gas main on the road, so homeowners here heat with oil, propane, or electric resistance and watch delivery prices swing every winter. Geothermal takes you off that roller coaster. It also rewards the one thing Oley Valley properties have plenty of: land. Open pasture and field edges give a horizontal loop the room it needs, and homes on smaller lots or with a pond have other loop options that fit tighter sites. For the many valley households looking to escape rising oil and propane bills, that combination of stable operating cost and low fuel dependence is the whole appeal.
The 30% federal tax credit, available through the IRS Residential Clean Energy Credit, applies to qualifying geothermal heat pump systems and takes a real bite out of the up-front cost, which is the number that makes homeowners hesitate. We walk you through which loop type suits your property and handle the whole project. Learn more about our geothermal installation process, and once the system is running we keep it that way with geothermal maintenance and geothermal repair.
Not every Oley home is ready to convert to geothermal, and plenty of the valley's 18th-century stone farmhouses run on boilers and oil furnaces that still have good years left in them. We service and repair all of it. If your system is losing heat or short-cycling, our furnace repair and boiler repair crews diagnose the fault and explain the fix in plain language before any work begins.
Many older Oley Valley homes still heat with oil, and we service oil-fired equipment along with the annual oil furnace cleanings that keep it running efficiently through the winter. Thick stone walls hold heat well but can make a house tricky to balance, and we size and tune systems with that in mind.
Regular tune-ups are the cheapest way to avoid a no-heat morning. Our Family Comfort Plans bundle seasonal maintenance and priority scheduling, so your furnace or boiler gets looked at before the cold sets in rather than after it quits.
Oley summers get humid, and an old farmhouse with no central air is a hard place to sleep in July. We install and repair central air conditioning, ducted heat pumps, and ductless mini-splits so you can match the right system to the house you actually own.
If your home already has ductwork, a central air conditioner or a heat pump installation keeps the whole house comfortable. A modern heat pump also handles most of your heating, which pairs well with the milder shoulder seasons in the valley.
Running new ducts through thick stone or plaster is often impractical, which is where a ductless mini-split installation shines. These systems cool and heat room by room with no ductwork, making them a clean fit for historic Oley homes and additions that never had ducts to begin with. Because each indoor head runs on its own thermostat, you can condition the rooms you actually use and leave a rarely used wing alone, which keeps energy use down in a large old farmhouse.
Power outages hit rural Oley properties harder than they hit town. When the electricity drops on a well-fed home, the water stops the moment the pump loses power, the freezer full of meat and garden produce starts thawing, and a sump pump quits right when a storm needs it most. A whole-home standby generator keeps all of it running.
We install Generac standby generators sized to carry the loads that matter on a farm or country property, wired to switch on automatically when the grid goes down. See our whole-home generator options, and we will help you decide which circuits to protect. For an Oley home on a well and septic, a generator is less a luxury than basic insurance against a long outage.
Most of Oley Township draws its water from private wells, which means the pump in your basement or well casing is the single most important piece of plumbing in the house. When it fails, you have no water at all. Our well pump service covers repair and replacement of the pumps, pressure tanks, and switches that keep an Oley home supplied.
The limestone geology under the Oley Valley leaves a lot of local well water hard, which scales up fixtures, water heaters, and pipes over time. Water treatment and filtration protect the plumbing you already have and make the water easier to live with. Explore our full range of plumbing services.
We install and service both tank and tankless water heaters, working with Bradford White tank units and Navien tankless models. A tankless water heater delivers continuous hot water without a standby tank, which suits busy households and homes where basement space is tight.
DeLong & Sons HVAC is family-owned and operated, founded by Justin DeLong and run by the family whose name is on the truck. When you call, you get the same local crew every visit, upfront pricing before the work starts, and easy online booking through Housecall Pro. We were named a 2024 Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave and recognized as a Housecall Pro Super Pro, both earned from real customers in our own backyard.
We provide same-day service during business hours when a system quits, and after-hours emergency service is available for an additional fee. Our shop runs Monday through Friday, 7 AM to 6 PM. Read what your neighbors say on our reviews page.
Oley is one of the most distinctive communities in Berks County. The entire township is listed as a National Register Historic District, one of the few places in the country to hold that designation as a whole rather than a single building, and its 18th-century stone farmsteads and preserved farmland are the reason. Each October the Oley Fair draws the valley together for one of the region's best-loved country fairs.
The community is anchored by the Oley Valley School District, threaded by Manatawny Creek, and reached by Routes 73 and 662. Smaller crossroads like Pleasantville, Spangsville, and Lobachsville dot the township, and homes across ZIP 19547 sit on private wells and septic. We serve all of it, and nearby towns too, including Birdsboro and Fleetwood.
Whether you are weighing a geothermal system for your farm, need a boiler or oil furnace serviced in a stone farmhouse, or want a Generac generator to carry your well through the next outage, DeLong & Sons HVAC is the local crew to call. Reach us for upfront pricing and a straight recommendation.
DeLong & Sons HVAC
403 Franklin St, Shoemakersville, PA 19555
Monday - Friday, 7 AM - 6 PM
Phone: 484-638-2837
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