IN THE TRADE SINCE 1995 · FATHER & SON · CAC1823678
Our Story - Tony, Jon Luke, and Three Decades in the Florida HVAC Trade
Tony Ventresca started in the HVAC trade in 1995. Three decades later - capacitors, compressors, ductwork, and every kind of Florida AC failure you can imagine - he's still on the trucks alongside his son Jon Luke.
Three decades in the trade. One family name on the truck.
Tony Ventresca has been in the HVAC trade since 1995 - more than thirty years of capacitors, compressors, ductwork, and every kind of Florida AC failure imaginable. He's the founder of the family HVAC trade tradition behind Father and Son Air Conditioning and Duct. Today he runs the business alongside his son Jon Luke Ventresca, who carries the Florida Certified Air Conditioning Contractor license (CAC1823678) and serves as the corporate qualifier of Father and Son Air Conditioning and Duct Inc. Both hold EPA Section 608 Universal certifications. Both are on the trucks.
Tony's trade story
How three decades of Florida service calls became a reputation - honest diagnosis, fair pricing.
For Tony, 1995 was the start of a career measured in service calls, not slogans. He learned the work from the ground up - a stalled compressor on a hundred-degree afternoon, a refrigerant leak others had walked past, the ductwork behind a system that was never going to keep up. Over more than thirty years across Central Florida, that repetition built what a sales script never could: a reputation for honest diagnosis and fair pricing.
There were no shortcuts and no sales scripts - just the work, done right, day after day, until a homeowner's first call became their only call.
Florida is hard on air conditioning. Attic temperatures can exceed 130°F during peak summer heat, many systems run most of the year, and the heat and humidity wear on coils and contactors in ways drier climates never see. Tony has repaired all of it - failed capacitors, seized blower motors, undersized returns, leaking line sets. Knowing what actually fails here, and why, is the difference between a real fix and a parts swap that fails again next summer.
That experience is the foundation everything else is built on - and it's why the work still happens the way it did in 1995: an owner on site, a straight answer, and a repair that holds.
Founding Father and Son Air Conditioning and Duct
The trade tradition is decades old. The company that carries its name is not - and we keep those two facts honestly separate.
1995
Tony in the trade
The year Tony started in HVAC - more than thirty years of Florida service calls, and counting.
2025
The corporation registered
The year the business was formalized as a corporation, with Jon Luke as corporate qualifier under license CAC1823678.
Father and Son Air Conditioning and Duct Inc. was registered in 2025. That is the year the business was formalized as a corporation, with Tony's son, Jon Luke Ventresca, as its corporate qualifier. Jon Luke holds the Florida Certified Air Conditioning Contractor license - CAC1823678, Class B - the credential that licenses the company's work across the state. You can verify it yourself; we link to the public record below.
So when you read "since 1995," that number belongs to Tony's time in the trade - more than thirty years of it - not to the age of the corporation. The corporation is new. The hands doing the work are not. Forming the company in 2025 simply put a license, a name, and a structure around a way of working Tony had already spent three decades proving out.
The name says exactly what the business is: a father and a son, working together, with their own name on the truck.
What family business means to us
A family business is only worth something if it changes how the work actually gets done. For us, it does.
We are owner-operated, and we mean that literally. We don't send salesmen, because we don't employ any. We don't route the work through a franchise crew or an anonymous subcontractor network - the people who run the company are the people on the job. Most days, Jon Luke answers the phone. And the person who shows up at your door is Jon Luke or Tony - not a stranger in a branded shirt who has never met either of them.
That structure removes the pressure most homeowners brace for. There's no commissioned rep working a quota, so there's no push toward a system you don't need. When a repair is the right call, we make the repair. When replacement is honestly the better decision, we'll tell you that - and explain why.
Our customers tend to say the same handful of things: that the diagnosis was honest, that the price was fair, that they'd been over-quoted elsewhere for the same job. We didn't write those words - they did. You can read them on our reviews page.
Our shop in West Orlando
One shop, one family, one phone number - the home base of an actual local company.
We work out of a shop at 1612 Camerbur Drive, on the west side of Orlando. It's where the trucks are loaded in the morning and where Tony and Jon Luke are based when they're not on a call. It is not a franchise location, a national call center, or an aggregator's lead-routing address - it's the home base of an actual local company.
That distinction matters more than it should have to. Orlando's market is crowded with names that look local but route somewhere else, and homeowners get understandably confused about who they're really hiring. With Father and Son there's no mystery: one shop, one family, one phone number, and the same two people answering for the work.
Talk to the people who'll do the work
When you call Father and Son, you reach the family that runs it. If you'd like to know more first:
- Meet Tony and Jon Luke and see who shows up at your door.
- Verify our Florida license (CAC1823678) and certifications.
- Read what Orlando customers say about working with us.
Talk to the people who'll do the work.
No call center, no commissioned rep - just the two people whose name is on the truck.