https://schryverco.com/insights/ News, analysis, and commentary on M&A across the residential and commercial service trades. en-us Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://schryverco.com/insights/summit-casteel-fire/ https://schryverco.com/insights/summit-casteel-fire/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Fire & Life Safety SFP Holding’s Summit arm buys a 1979-founded Texas sprinkler contractor across Houston, Amarillo, Austin, and Lubbock. The team stays; detection, alarm, security, and special hazard ride onto the sprinkler book. https://schryverco.com/insights/team-first-holloway-plumbing/ https://schryverco.com/insights/team-first-holloway-plumbing/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical An Atlanta-framed residential plumbing platform still early in its 2025 launch densifies Kerrville after Midland’s Halls Rooter & Plumbing, keeping local brands on while it shops more owner-led shops nationally. https://schryverco.com/insights/loenbro-prism/ https://schryverco.com/insights/loenbro-prism/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Westminster’s multi-craft mission-critical contractor folds in a 1994-founded TX/OK electrical specialist — data center, healthcare, industrial, aviation, and commercial — as a centerpiece of the December 2025 Kohlberg partnership thesis. https://schryverco.com/insights/cid-kaiser-garage/ https://schryverco.com/insights/cid-kaiser-garage/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Garage Doors Indianapolis lower-middle-market PE stands up a residential and commercial overhead-door platform in Arizona while KKR’s reported A1 process, Sterling’s OGD densify, and Galaxy’s commercial-door partnerships keep the same trade crowded. https://schryverco.com/insights/titan-semper-fi/ https://schryverco.com/insights/titan-semper-fi/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Guild Garage Group founders’ residential trades alliance lists Wilson (Stow, OH) and Semper Fi (Mesa, AZ) as partner brands, now claiming 7 markets and 700+ employees — chasing $20M+ local operators with the brand left alone. https://schryverco.com/insights/ogd-three-addons/ https://schryverco.com/insights/ogd-three-addons/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Garage Doors The Fort Worth residential and commercial garage-door platform, held in Sterling’s Foundation Fund since July 2024, is densifying Midwest and Mid-Atlantic markets and extending into Michigan while KKR’s A1 process and Galaxy’s commercial-door partnerships keep the same trade in the headlines. https://schryverco.com/insights/fpt-brake-fire-protection/ https://schryverco.com/insights/fpt-brake-fire-protection/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Fire & Life Safety Cheshire-based FPT, a Right Angle Partners portfolio company, adds a multigenerational Trumbull sprinkler contractor. Jim Brake stays on day-to-day customer relationships and operations. https://schryverco.com/insights/peterson-kelso-continuation-vehicle/ https://schryverco.com/insights/peterson-kelso-continuation-vehicle/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Single-asset CV for the Draper, Utah MEP platform. Fund X stays in with a roll and add-on; NorthSands commits more than $450M of new capital for acquisitions, people, and markets — not a full sponsor exit. https://schryverco.com/insights/flint-group-sale-process/ https://schryverco.com/insights/flint-group-sale-process/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Expect an active 12–18 months of platform-level exits in residential multi-trade. Homepros’s report that General Atlantic–backed Flint Group has launched an early-stage sale process is one data point in a broader sponsor cycle that already includes ARS and USA Hometown Experts — with more processes expected into 2027. https://schryverco.com/insights/state-group-melkay/ https://schryverco.com/insights/state-group-melkay/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Franklin, Tennessee’s industrial multi-trade platform takes Mel-Kay Electric into southern Indiana, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois — preferred-vendor work for Toyota, Deaconess Health, Berry Global, and Sabic. https://schryverco.com/insights/galaxy-central-door-solutions/ https://schryverco.com/insights/galaxy-central-door-solutions/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Garage Doors Commercial door, gate, and access consolidator adds a Plover/New Berlin dock-and-door operator that recently acquired Fox Valley Overhead Door — Galaxy’s fourth partnership of 2026. https://schryverco.com/insights/lb-capital-em-exteriors/ https://schryverco.com/insights/lb-capital-em-exteriors/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing Blue Bell, Pennsylvania’s LB Capital has stood up EM Exteriors as a brand-retaining exterior home-services platform that, by the company’s count, already ties together 15 roofing companies across 13 states and more than $150 million of revenue under management — with a stated goal of exiting as one platform rather than selling each brand one by one. https://schryverco.com/insights/kkr-a1-garage/ https://schryverco.com/insights/kkr-a1-garage/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Garage Doors Sources say KKR has agreed to buy the Phoenix residential garage-door platform Tommy Mello built, about three and a half years after a Cortec Group recap whose terms were never published. https://schryverco.com/insights/limbach-1901/ https://schryverco.com/insights/limbach-1901/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Nasdaq-listed Limbach Holdings bought a 125-year Madison union MEP contractor for $63 million, plus up to $6 million of performance earnouts, and disclosed expected 2027 contribution of approximately $140 million of revenue and $11 million of adjusted EBITDA. https://schryverco.com/insights/hidden-harbor-escape-fire/ https://schryverco.com/insights/hidden-harbor-escape-fire/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Fire & Life Safety The Boca Raton firm is using Fund III to stand up a Minnesota-based fire sprinkler and inspection contractor as a platform, with management staying in and add-on acquisitions already on the agenda. https://schryverco.com/insights/dansons-shasta-pools/ https://schryverco.com/insights/dansons-shasta-pools/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Home Services A 60-year Phoenix pool company is recapitalized by a grill-family office, an auto-repair PE firm, and a commercial pool contractor. The asset they are underwriting is the customer file. https://schryverco.com/insights/royalty-tingley/ https://schryverco.com/insights/royalty-tingley/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing The Six Pillars Partners-backed Indiana platform adds an east-central Illinois commercial and residential contractor sitting close to its home market — five brands added across four transactions since February, each of them keeping its own name. https://schryverco.com/insights/mars-citadel/ https://schryverco.com/insights/mars-citadel/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing An energy infrastructure holding company — not a roofing platform — buys one of Northern California’s largest residential new construction roofing and solar contractors, in one of the larger headcount additions the sector has seen from a single transaction. https://schryverco.com/insights/presidential-shipley/ https://schryverco.com/insights/presidential-shipley/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Gaithersburg, Maryland business — part of the Gryphon-backed Southern Home Services network — absorbs a local plumbing, heating, and cooling company and retires its name. A tuck-in beneath a brand the platform already owns, rather than an entry into a new market. https://schryverco.com/insights/flow-altman-air-conditioning/ https://schryverco.com/insights/flow-altman-air-conditioning/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Nashville-area HVACR and plumbing platform adds a Lake Park mechanical contractor founded in 1985 — a second Florida commercial brand that sits opposite its existing Gulf coast operation rather than opening a new state. https://schryverco.com/insights/cool-roofs-cobros/ https://schryverco.com/insights/cool-roofs-cobros/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing The Austin-based roofing company folds a Houston contractor into its existing Cool Roofs – Houston banner, extending coverage across Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties. A consolidation of two operations inside one market rather than an entry into a new one. https://schryverco.com/insights/valor-dicks-roof-repair/ https://schryverco.com/insights/valor-dicks-roof-repair/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing The Cincinnati-based exterior home services platform adds a second-generation Wisconsin roofing and siding company founded in 1957 — its tenth acquisition in under two years, and the piece that connects a Midwest footprint that had been running thin. https://schryverco.com/insights/balance-point-allied-roofing/ https://schryverco.com/insights/balance-point-allied-roofing/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing The Westport, Connecticut alternative investment manager committed flexible capital to a residential roofing and exterior services group founded in 2024 that has partnered with six brands. A structured investment into a young platform, in one of the least consolidated categories in the trades. https://schryverco.com/insights/jackson-streets-mep/ https://schryverco.com/insights/jackson-streets-mep/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Two Oklahoma City firms founded in 1957 and 1960 have combined into a single multi-trade contractor carrying more than 250 union technicians and staff. No sponsor, no platform, no exit — and the structure they chose is the part worth reading. https://schryverco.com/insights/kelso-gaddy-all-electric/ https://schryverco.com/insights/kelso-gaddy-all-electric/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical A 1958-founded diversified contractor in rural west Alabama, an industrial electrical specialist in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, and a Spokane heavy civil builder organized around water infrastructure. None of the three is a metro density play, and together they mark a platform approaching 40 acquisitions moving deliberately toward industrial and municipal work. https://schryverco.com/insights/sas-procure-austin-air/ https://schryverco.com/insights/sas-procure-austin-air/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Storr Group-backed Sun Belt platform folds a Buda, Texas company founded in 2024 into the legacy Central Texas brand it acquired to launch the platform — adding density along the south Austin corridor rather than opening a new market. https://schryverco.com/insights/airo-legrandes/ https://schryverco.com/insights/airo-legrandes/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Mooresville, North Carolina-based multifamily and light commercial HVAC and plumbing installer adds a Myrtle Beach specialty contractor founded in 2009 — deepening its plumbing capability and opening a new coastal South Carolina market roughly a year into its partnership with CCMP Growth. https://schryverco.com/insights/titan-trades-alliance-wilson/ https://schryverco.com/insights/titan-trades-alliance-wilson/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical 599 Holdings has formed Titan Trades Alliance with third-generation Wilson Plumbing & Heating as its founding partner company. The team behind it built Guild Garage Group into a reported $800 million-plus platform in roughly two years — and is now running that playbook, from a standing start, in residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. https://schryverco.com/insights/norlee-vintage-electric/ https://schryverco.com/insights/norlee-vintage-electric/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Heartwood-backed electrical platform adds a Gainesville-area contractor in its seventh add-on since October 2024, filling in the gap between its Jacksonville base and its Central Florida operations. https://schryverco.com/insights/champions-powell-electric/ https://schryverco.com/insights/champions-powell-electric/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Blackstone-backed residential services platform has acquired a Southern California electrical contractor founded in 1971 — its first announced acquisition since February’s recapitalization agreement, and a service-line addition inside an existing footprint rather than a move into a new market. https://schryverco.com/insights/corbel-seapine-executive-exteriors/ https://schryverco.com/insights/corbel-seapine-executive-exteriors/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing The 2018-founded specialty roofing and exterior restoration firm keeps founder Drake Gordon as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer with a significant retained stake, with capital earmarked for new branch openings, sales-team expansion, and acquisitions. https://schryverco.com/insights/servicelogic-lh-airco/ https://schryverco.com/insights/servicelogic-lh-airco/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The Charlotte-based platform — 155 locations, 61 operating companies, and more than 110 acquisitions — adds a Rocklin, California energy management systems contractor serving healthcare, government, military, and education customers across the state. https://schryverco.com/insights/rsp-all-american-alaska/ https://schryverco.com/insights/rsp-all-american-alaska/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical The third acquisition under the RSP platform — and the 37th for its Dallas-based parent, SIG Partners — pairs a Southeast Alaska operator with RSP’s Interior and Mat-Su footprint, in a state where heating is not a comfort purchase and where the usual roll-up logic does not quite apply. https://schryverco.com/insights/banko-southeastern-garage-doors/ https://schryverco.com/insights/banko-southeastern-garage-doors/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Garage Doors Blue Ridge Construction Capital-backed Banko adds a 25-year-old Lowcountry operator with facilities in North Charleston and Bluffton — the platform’s first step beyond Florida, and a useful marker of how quickly capital has moved into a garage door services market that the industry press still describes as early in its consolidation. https://schryverco.com/insights/royalty-rodd-roofing/ https://schryverco.com/insights/royalty-rodd-roofing/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing Six Pillars Partners-backed Royalty Roofing adds St. Johnsbury’s Rodd Roofing — a fourth-generation, family-owned contractor serving Vermont and New Hampshire for more than a century — in a deal that plants the platform’s first flag in northern New England and underscores a model that keeps commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential work under one roof. https://schryverco.com/insights/launchpad-top-to-bottom/ https://schryverco.com/insights/launchpad-top-to-bottom/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Home Services Austin-based, RFE Investment Partners-backed LaunchPad Home Group has acquired Top to Bottom Services, a Montgomery County, Maryland home inspection firm founded in 2004 — a deal that stitches the platform’s Delaware and Pennsylvania operations into one of the country’s most competitive residential real estate corridors, and a reminder that consolidation in the trades now extends well into the services orbiting the transaction itself. https://schryverco.com/insights/leap-central-heat-air/ https://schryverco.com/insights/leap-central-heat-air/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Nashville-based, PE-backed home-services platform Leap Partners has acquired Central Heat & Air, a four-decade HVAC provider serving Cleveland and the greater Chattanooga area — the platform’s latest add-on in a Southeast build-out that now spans 34 acquired companies across eight states, and a marker of how consolidators are increasingly moving further down market for quality add-ons. https://schryverco.com/insights/highpoint-five-points-roofing/ https://schryverco.com/insights/highpoint-five-points-roofing/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing Lake Street Capital Partners-backed HighPoint adds Five Points Roofing, a 15-year-old, family-founded residential re-roofing and insurance-restoration contractor serving the greater Nashville market — a move that carries the young exterior-services platform from its North Carolina base into one of the country’s hottest real estate markets. https://schryverco.com/insights/blue-cardinal-dd-home-services/ https://schryverco.com/insights/blue-cardinal-dd-home-services/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Blue Cardinal Home Services has acquired D&D Home Services, a family-owned residential plumbing and HVAC provider that has served Midland and the broader Permian Basin since 1984 — strengthening the platform’s presence in West Texas while keeping the local team and reputation in place. https://schryverco.com/insights/skybound-commercial-roofing-platform/ https://schryverco.com/insights/skybound-commercial-roofing-platform/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Roofing A year after launching with Garnett Station Partners’ backing, Skybound has added three new partner brands and four greenfield branches, reaching nine markets from the Northeast to Texas and Minnesota to Florida — a fast, disciplined read on how the buy-and-build model is coming to commercial roofing, and what it means for owners. https://schryverco.com/insights/heritage-airside-technology/ https://schryverco.com/insights/heritage-airside-technology/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Boston-based Heritage Holdings has acquired Airside Technology Corporation — a four-decade-old East Syracuse commercial and industrial HVAC contractor with a union workforce and an automated in-house fabrication shop — adding a fourth HVAC brand to a platform built on founder-led industrial-services businesses. https://schryverco.com/insights/modigent-pe-mechanical/ https://schryverco.com/insights/modigent-pe-mechanical/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Phoenix-headquartered Modigent — a private equity-backed HVAC, plumbing, and controls platform built from roughly 20 operating companies coast to coast — has acquired P&E Mechanical, a 13-year-old, family-founded HVAC and plumbing contractor in Waco, Texas. The deal deepens Modigent’s Texas presence along the I-35 corridor and follows closely on its recent entry into Houston, offering a clear look at how one of the newer national MEP platforms is building. https://schryverco.com/insights/asg-doctor-fixit/ https://schryverco.com/insights/asg-doctor-fixit/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Advantage Services Group — the operator-sponsored residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical platform built by David Williams and backed by his family office MRE Capital — has acquired Doctor Fix-It, a nearly five-decade-old Denver Metro home-services provider. Doctor Fix-It’s operations are being folded into ASG’s existing Colorado brand, Elkhorn, in a tuck-in that thickens density in a market ASG already serves. https://schryverco.com/insights/sylvan-pettus-mechanical/ https://schryverco.com/insights/sylvan-pettus-mechanical/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical A 43-year-old mechanical contractor with 250+ skilled professionals joins a platform backed by E-3 Tech with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. The deal extends Sylvan south — and it’s a marker of a newer kind of buyer competing for MEP businesses: the technology-thesis consolidator. https://schryverco.com/insights/redwood-hendrick-oklahoma/ https://schryverco.com/insights/redwood-hendrick-oklahoma/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Hendrick is barely six years old — and grew to 90 teammates and 25,000+ customers in that time. The deal says as much about what private equity consolidators are looking for as it does about Redwood’s post-recapitalization pace. https://schryverco.com/insights/mastec-superior-group/ https://schryverco.com/insights/mastec-superior-group/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical A century-old, family-owned electrical contractor is selling to a public strategic at roughly 7x forward EBITDA, with the deal built around data center and mission-critical demand. Because the buyer is public, the financials are disclosed — and they’re worth studying for anyone who owns a commercial electrical or MEP business. https://schryverco.com/insights/sila-davis-western-virginia/ https://schryverco.com/insights/sila-davis-western-virginia/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Sila's acquisition of a 78-year-old Roanoke-area operator is a small deal on its own. But it's a useful marker of how a residential HVAC platform keeps compounding acquisitions after a recapitalization with a new institutional backer. https://schryverco.com/insights/solvane-evolve-restoration-platform/ https://schryverco.com/insights/solvane-evolve-restoration-platform/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: Restoration, Roofing & Exteriors In a matter of months, Solvane has assembled a multi-brand property-restoration and home-services platform spanning roofing, storm restoration, plumbing, and environmental testing. At its core sits the $50 million acquisition of the Evolve Restoration platform — and a strategy the company has been unusually explicit about. https://schryverco.com/insights/lunsford-legacy-service-partners/ https://schryverco.com/insights/lunsford-legacy-service-partners/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Tampa-based Legacy Service Partners has welcomed Lunsford Air Conditioning & Heating — a family- and veteran-owned Milton, Florida operator with more than four decades in Northwest Florida — into a platform that now spans 30 local brands across 19 states, while keeping Lunsford locally led and community focused. https://schryverco.com/insights/nytech-ultimate-friendly-group/ https://schryverco.com/insights/nytech-ultimate-friendly-group/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Nytech Heating, Cooling and Plumbing — a Friendly Group partner serving Colorado's Douglas County for nearly three decades — has added Denver-area operator Ultimate Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electrical, extending the platform's reach across the Front Range while preserving the local teams and reputations both brands have built.