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Plumbing & HVAC
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Blake Harrison’s HVAC sideline grew into a Montgomery crew of almost 20
Blake Harrison ran his heating and air company on the side for years, then built a crew of almost 20 that he means to leave to his sons.
A Jacksonville plumber built PureFlo Plumbing on hourly pay and no salespeople
Ryan Heitman spent nearly 20 years plumbing for other Jacksonville companies, then built his own around hourly pay, no salespeople and an owner who answers the phone.
Emerald Heat & Air fixes the system, then explains it
Sarah Hiler and Emi Alsobrook started the Norman heating and air company in 2010 with one truck, and they made teaching customers about their equipment part of the job.
Matt Moody started The Leak Geeks Plumbers with one van and a name his kids helped pick
After more than 25 years in his father’s Mobile plumbing business, Matt Moody branched off with one van and a name he and his kids came up with.
Jimmy Hiller started his plumbing company with $500 and a pickup truck, and he still runs it
A Nashville plumber who once chased builders for payment built Hiller into a 17-location home-service company with strict rules for every truck and a school for his own technicians.
Ken Goodrich held the flashlight on a Goettl as a boy, then bought the company and rebuilt it
A Las Vegas air conditioning technician who learned the trade from his father bought a Phoenix cooling company founded in 1939 and built it into an HVAC and plumbing business in four states.
George Brazil’s Phoenix plumbing company now belongs to its employees
George Brazil started his plumbing company in Santa Ana in 1955 and changed how the trade charged and equipped its trucks. Seventy years later, the Phoenix company that carries his name is owned by its workers.