Yes. We dispatch emergency commercial HVAC service around the clock across Fredericksburg, Kerrville, Boerne, Comfort, and the surrounding Hill Country. For a business, the response time matters more than almost anything else about the repair.
Why Commercial Emergencies Are Different
A residential HVAC failure is uncomfortable. A commercial failure stops revenue.
A restaurant that loses cooling during Friday dinner service does not lose the price of a repair — it loses the covers it could not seat, the prepped food it had to discard, the labor it already scheduled, and a run of reviews that outlast the outage by years.
An office sends people home. A hotel comps rooms. Retail watches customers walk out. A winery or tasting room with an event booked has no ability to reschedule the weather.
That is why we treat commercial calls as a different category rather than fitting them into the residential queue.
What We Handle on an Emergency Call
The failures that most often bring us out are compressor and refrigerant problems that have taken capacity to zero, blower and belt failures that have stopped airflow entirely, control and thermostat faults that leave a system stuck off, electrical failures in contactors and capacitors, and condensate backups that either shut a unit down on a float switch or start putting water through a ceiling.
Rooftop units account for a large share of it. They sit fully exposed to Hill Country sun, wind, dust, and hail, and weather-related damage is routine.
First Priority: Get You Running
On an emergency call the goal is restoring operation, not completing every repair the building needs.
Sometimes that means a permanent fix on the spot. Sometimes it means a temporary measure that gets you through service today, with the proper repair scheduled for a time that does not cost you a shift.
We will tell you plainly which one you are getting and what the follow-up requires. A business owner making a decision at 4 p.m. on a Friday deserves accurate information about their options rather than a sales conversation.
Water Damage Is the Other Emergency
Not every commercial HVAC emergency is a cooling failure.
A clogged condensate line on a rooftop unit sends water into the building, and because commercial ceilings often conceal a great deal of infrastructure, the damage spreads before anyone sees it. That is a call we run at any hour.
Because we also provide commercial plumbing, condensate routing, drain problems, and gas supply issues get resolved by the same company on the same visit rather than requiring a second vendor.
Most of These Were Preventable
This is worth saying because it is consistently true.
Almost every emergency we run traces to a progressive problem that produced no complaint. A belt that had been slipping for months. Refrigerant charge that had been declining since spring. An economizer stuck in a position nobody checked. A condensate line that had been narrowing for two years.
None of those generate a tenant complaint until the day they cause a failure — which is, reliably, the day of peak load.
Scheduled service converts them into planned visits performed before opening or on your slow day. Details are on our commercial HVAC services page, and maintenance plans are set by building type rather than a default interval.
What Helps Us Respond Faster
When you call, knowing your equipment helps. Rooftop unit locations, model and serial numbers, and roof access arrangements save real time on arrival.
Buildings on a maintenance agreement have that documented already, which is one of the underrated benefits — we arrive knowing your system rather than learning it.
Reaching Us
Emergency dispatch runs at any hour. If the problem is on the plumbing side, our 24/7 emergency plumbers take it, and the same number reaches both.
Call (830) 468-5316 or contact 72 Degrees.