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July 2026

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M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 29, 2026

Service Logic acquires California building automation contractor L&H Airco, deepening its controls business in the West

North America’s largest privately held mechanical services platform adds a 58-year-old controls contractor — and a look at why building automation commands different economics than mechanical work.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 27, 2026

Reliable Services Partners adds Juneau’s All American Home Service, becoming Alaska’s largest residential heating company

RSP’s third acquisition and its parent holding company’s 37th — and a look at a permanent-capital buyer model that offers owners something a private equity fund structurally cannot.

M&A: Garage DoorsJuly 25, 2026

Banko Overhead Doors acquires Charleston’s Southeastern Garage Doors, opening its first market outside Florida

Blue Ridge Construction Capital-backed Banko crosses the state line into South Carolina — and a look at why garage doors became one of the most actively consolidated corners of residential services.

M&A: RoofingJuly 24, 2026

Royalty Roofing acquires Vermont’s Rodd Roofing, opening a northern New England beachhead for its commercial-and-residential platform

Six Pillars-backed Royalty Roofing adds fourth-generation Rodd Roofing of St. Johnsbury, Vermont — a beachhead entry into northern New England, and a look at a platform that runs commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential under one roof.

M&A: Home ServicesJuly 22, 2026

LaunchPad Home Group acquires Top to Bottom Services, extending its mid-Atlantic platform into the D.C. metro

RFE-backed LaunchPad adds Top to Bottom Services, a Montgomery County home inspection firm founded in 2004 — the platform’s entry into Maryland and the D.C. metro, and a look at consolidation in an inspection sector adjacent to the trades.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 21, 2026

Leap Partners expands in Tennessee with the acquisition of Cleveland-based Central Heat & Air

Nashville-based, PE-backed Leap Partners adds Central Heat & Air — a four-decade Chattanooga-area HVAC provider — its 34th acquisition across an eight-state Southeast footprint, and a marker of consolidators moving further down market.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 20, 2026

Blue Cardinal Home Services acquires Midland’s D&D Home Services, extending its Texas platform into the Permian Basin

Percheron Capital-backed Blue Cardinal adds D&D Home Services — a 40-year-old, family-owned residential plumbing and HVAC provider serving Midland and the broader Permian Basin since 1984 — deepening the platform’s West Texas footprint.

M&A: RoofingJuly 20, 2026

HighPoint Exterior Home Services partners with Franklin’s Five Points Roofing, extending its Southeast platform into Tennessee

Lake Street Capital Partners-backed HighPoint adds Five Points Roofing — a 15-year-old, family-founded residential re-roofing and insurance-restoration contractor serving greater Nashville — expanding the platform from North Carolina into Tennessee.

M&A: RoofingJuly 15, 2026

Skybound Service Partners is building a national commercial roofing platform — five partners, four greenfields, nine markets in year one

A year after launching with Garnett Station Partners’ backing, Skybound has added three partner brands and four greenfield branches across nine markets — a disciplined read on the buy-and-build model coming to commercial roofing.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 9, 2026

Heritage Holdings acquires Airside Technology, adding a Central New York commercial HVAC contractor

Boston-based Heritage Holdings has acquired East Syracuse’s Airside Technology — a 40-year-old commercial and industrial HVAC contractor with a union workforce and automated sheet-metal fabrication — as a fourth HVAC brand on its industrial-services platform.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 8, 2026

Advantage Services Group deepens its Colorado platform with the acquisition of Denver’s Doctor Fix-It

Operator-sponsored residential platform ASG — backed by David Williams’ family office MRE Capital — acquires nearly five-decade-old Doctor Fix-It and folds it into its existing Denver brand Elkhorn, thickening density in a market it already serves.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 8, 2026

Modigent expands its Central Texas footprint with the acquisition of Waco-based P&E Mechanical

Phoenix-headquartered Modigent — a private equity-backed HVAC, plumbing, and controls platform built from roughly 20 operating companies coast to coast — acquires P&E Mechanical, a 13-year-old family-founded HVAC and plumbing contractor in Waco, Texas, deepening its I-35 corridor presence.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 7, 2026

MasTec to acquire The Superior Group for ~$1.65 billion — a rare public read on what scaled commercial electrical is worth

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 — and, for once, the financials are disclosed.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 7, 2026

Sylvan Group adds Alabama’s Pettus Plumbing & Piping — and the AI-enabled MEP platform keeps building

A 43-year-old mechanical contractor with 250+ skilled professionals joins a platform backed by E-3 Tech with participation from Andreessen Horowitz — a marker of a newer kind of buyer competing for MEP businesses.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 7, 2026

Redwood Services enters Oklahoma with Tulsa’s Hendrick Heat, Air & Plumbing — its first investment in the state

Hendrick is barely six years old — and grew to 90 teammates and 25,000+ customers in that time. A useful marker of what private equity consolidators are looking for, and of Redwood’s post-recapitalization pace.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 6, 2026

Sila Services enters Western Virginia with Davis Heating and Air Conditioning — and keeps the buy-and-build going

Sila’s acquisition of a 78-year-old Roanoke-area operator is a small deal on its own — but a useful marker of how a residential HVAC platform keeps compounding acquisitions after a recapitalization with a new institutional backer.

M&A: Restoration, Roofing & ExteriorsJuly 4, 2026

Solvane is building a national restoration platform — anchored by its $50M Evolve acquisition

In a matter of months, Solvane has assembled a multi-brand property-restoration and home-services platform. At its core sits the $50 million acquisition of the Evolve Restoration platform — and a strategy the company has been unusually explicit about.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 2, 2026

Legacy Service Partners adds Lunsford Air Conditioning & Heating, extending its platform into the Florida Panhandle

Legacy Service Partners has added Lunsford Air Conditioning & Heating, a family- and veteran-owned tri-county operator founded in 1981, extending its home-services platform into the Florida Panhandle.

M&A: HVAC, Plumbing, & ElectricalJuly 1, 2026

Friendly Group’s Nytech expands into Denver Metro with Ultimate Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electrical

Friendly Group’s Nytech brand has expanded into the Denver Metro market with the addition of Ultimate Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electrical, a family-owned, NATE-certified operator serving the area since 1999.