Esteban Dominguez opened All Cool Heat Plumbing & General Contractor in 2005 with an air conditioning contractor license. He upgraded to a general contractor license in 2006 and added plumbing in 2007. He is the mechanical and plumbing contractor. His brother, an engineer, is the general contractor. Dominguez calls it a family business.
The plan from the start was full-service construction, so a customer could deal with one company instead of juggling several. “One call solve it all,” he says. Trades such as electrical and roofing go to subcontractors.
The work runs from houses to restaurants. Dominguez says the company handles plumbing and HVAC for residential, commercial and industrial customers, and builds out restaurants as general contractor. The company’s site puts kitchen ventilation up front, including Type I grease hoods and Type II steam and heat hoods. Crews work across Central Florida from Apopka.
He doesn’t claim a perfect record on timing. “Sometimes you are the hero and sometimes you’re not,” he says. Traffic and busy days push schedules around, so the company keeps customers posted on arrival times by phone, text or email.
Knowing the work also means knowing when a request isn’t safe. When a homeowner wanted a 27-kilowatt tankless water heater, Dominguez says the electrical panel didn’t have the capacity for it, and he pointed the man toward an electric tank heater instead. He tries not to be rude when he says no, he says, but the work has to be safe and reliable when it’s done.
Where experience pays off, he says, is in finding the problem. “We can fix what others cannot,” he says. His service technicians have at least five years in the field.