Four standalone trades brands already operating across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Eighteen tradespeople still doing the work they love. We're the buyer that residential and commercial mechanical contractors actually want to talk to — because we've done this four times already, and the businesses are still running under their original names.
Our mechanical and infrastructure trades vertical covers the contracting businesses that keep buildings warm, dry, powered, and running. We partner with residential, commercial, and light-industrial operators across these sub-trades:
heating, cooling, indoor air quality, refrigeration
residential, commercial, gas fitting, drain and sewer
residential, commercial, low-voltage, service and installation
residential and light commercial
cleaning, repair, replacement, hydro-jettingadjacent specialty trades on a case-by-case basis
Tim Whistler Plumbing, Fresh Air HVAC, First Aid Air Conditioning, Strategic Heating & Air — all four standalone brands still running under their original names with the original crews. Eighteen skilled tradespeople kept their jobs through the transitions. We're not promising what could happen; we're showing what has.
The people who decide whether to buy your business — and how to run it after close — have signed payroll, hired techs, weathered slow seasons, and exited operating companies of their own. We're not a fund. We're operators acquiring operating businesses.
Our portfolio is concentrated where mechanical trades businesses thrive — Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and adjacent markets. We know the regulatory landscape, the seasonal patterns, and the regional referral networks that make these businesses work.
The name on your trucks, the techs in your crew, the standards your customers expect — these stay. We've structured every deal so far around preserving what made the business work, not consolidating it into something unrecognizable.




Being clear about what we don't do saves everyone time. We don't typically acquire:
Most process questions come up in the first conversation, but a few we hear often enough to answer here. If you don't see yours, ask us directly.
Most of our mechanical trades acquisitions fall between $1M and $25M in annual revenue. We've structured deals for owner-operators with single-location residential businesses and for multi-location commercial contractors. If you're in that range and in the Mid-Atlantic or Southeast, we'd want to have a conversation.
Yes. All four standalone brands in our portfolio still operate under their original names — Tim Whistler Plumbing, Fresh Air HVAC, First Aid Air Conditioning, Strategic Heating & Air. The name on the trucks is the asset; we don't rebrand acquired businesses under a corporate parent.
Eighteen skilled tradespeople across our portfolio have kept their jobs through ownership transitions. We acquire trades businesses because of their teams, not despite them. Team retention can be written into the purchase agreement if it gives you peace of mind.
That's the 'Operate' path. Sell to us, keep running it as operator or partner, and we bring capital and back-office support. Across our five closed acquisitions, multiple owners chose this structure. There's no minimum or maximum involvement — your call, in writing, before close.
A confidential 30-to-45-minute conversation. No NDAs. No commitment. The fastest way to understand what your options actually look like.