Bryan, Jeff, and David have traveled far from their childhoods spent riding skateboards down Franklin St. to chase vocations, dreams across the country and across the globe. Bryan attended chef’s school and became a sous chef at the beginning of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro restaurant explosion. David, after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, Cal State and NC State, traveled to Poland where he taught English and tried to explain (at length) his version of ironic humor to a puzzled Eastern European audience. Jeff, after completing business school at UNC-Greensboro, took a crack at the world of insurance sales but slowly, the gravitational pull of this special place and this special family began to exert its influence.

Underneath their romantic affection for life in the Triangle, the three had motivations of being the masters of their own destiny, building something that they could call their own, staking deep roots and giving back to a community that meant so much to them. At first, they worked for others. Bryan and Jeff began a decade-long apprenticeship in the heating, cooling and refrigeration world and built many of the long-term relationships that have sustained their success. David, the last to be pulled into the orbit of the Boer Brother Juggernaut, landed back in Chapel Hill after marketing and public relations stints in Colorado and California.

Founding the company in 2007, the Boer Brothers quickly became known as the go-to folks for good heating, cooling and refrigeration service in Chapel Hill, Durham, Hillsborough, Carrboro, and Raleigh. The enterprise has grown into a mid-sized company that differentiates itself by its relationships with its customers, the excellence of its team members (most of them have the licenses required to open their own business) and a service rather than a sales focus.