About Us

Nick Nadorff, too busy for a proper photo.

Nick Nadorff, owner, has lived and worked in the Berkshires for almost thirty years. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where his grandfather ran the Nadorff Brewery.

After graduating from high school in Ohio and earning a B.A. in psychology from St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana, Nick came to New England to ski and he never left.

Close relationship with guys like Jack Murdock from Ray Murray, Inc. (our primary distributor) help assure Stockbridge Gas can provide quick, reliable, factory-approved service.

For a while, Nick sold sporting goods at Besse-Clarke in Pittsfield, but he needed more of a challenge. He always had great mechanical ability, so in 1973 he got his oil burner license at the New England Fuel Institute in Boston.

He began working as a mechanic at the company then known as Stockbridge Fuel & Grain, which sold fuel oil and chicken and horse feed, dog food, and sunflower seeds.

Nick’s natural talent working with people and his genuine, warm personality soon led to him assuming more of a sales role at the company. In 1985 he bought the business, now Stockbridge Fuel, from Edmund G. (“Bud”) Wilcox.

Two years later, he renamed the company Stockbridge Gas and changed its focus to LP and natural gas and related products. Today, Nick still loves his work. During the wintertime, when daylight is limited and people in the Berkshires are enduring freezing temperatures, he says that providing his customers with the comfort of radiant heat gives him real satisfaction.

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He likes selling products his customers enjoy and saving them money at the same time. Many customers have heard him say, “The house is talking to me, and I’m there to translate what it’s saying.”

Nick has the ability to understand and solve people’s heating needs—in terms of comfort, price, and practicality. And, he says, he “doesn’t sell unless I can deliver.” Customers enjoy a quick turnaround and take delivery and installation of their stove or gas furnace very shortly after they place their order.

Nick still enjoys the ski slopes when he can get away, and he and his teenage son (also named Nick) spend time together on the computer and experimenting with digital photography.

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