Now offering heating and cooling — meet our HVAC partner.
By Doug Conner · April 15, 2026
When Doug and Brian started Mission Home Solutions in 2022, we made a deliberate choice: we wouldn't fake the trades we couldn't do well. If a job needed serious mechanical work — full HVAC, refrigerant lines, pipe fitting — we'd refer it. The deal was that any name we gave you was a name we'd send to our own homes.
The plan worked, mostly. But after a few years of watching customers schedule with two crews, juggle two estimates, and call two different shops when something went wrong, we kept coming back to the same thought: there has to be a better way.
This year there is.
We've teamed up with a 22-year HVAC-R veteran who runs a small, sub-radar HVAC outfit in the Metro East — and now we can quote, install, and service heating and cooling under the same roof as everything else.
Our HVAC partner isn't a vendor — he's a craftsman we've known for years. The HVAC industry is full of installers who learned the trade from a sales script. Our partner isn't one of them. He's been working in heating and air conditioning since 2003 — that's 22+ years on the tools. He came up as Service Foreman at a 30+ year family-owned shop in Lebanon, Illinois, where he handled the call-outs that needed a real diagnostic mind, not a parts-replacement reflex. From there he spent a few years on the equipment-distributor side, learning the install game from a different angle, and then moved into a journeyman pipefitter role at one of the biggest facilities operations in the region — work he still does by day.
That last part matters. Most HVAC shops can't say that — pipefitting is its own credential, with its own union (UA Local 101 covers our area), and it's the part of any HVAC install that determines whether the system runs right for ten years or limps along leaking.
He's not a generalist. He's a specialist who came up through respected Metro East trade lineages.
He hired us to build his garage before any partnership was on paper. Long before any partnership existed, our HVAC partner was a Mission Home Solutions customer. We built his garage. He's recommended us in nearly a dozen Facebook threads in the local community groups. The trust runs both ways. He'd hire us for any remodel he didn't have time to do himself. We'd send him into our customers' homes to size and install a new system without checking up on him.
What we're now offering, in plain terms: Furnace install, repair, and tune-up. Central AC install, replacement, and service. Mini-split installs, single-zone or multi-zone — built for additions, finished basements, garages, sunrooms, and second floors that won't stay comfortable. Pipe fitting — refrigerant lines, condensate, and any specialty pipework an install needs. Financing available — predictable monthly payments, most homeowners approved in minutes.
The "two teams, one call" advantage. If you're a regular Mission Home Solutions customer or a property manager already in our portfolio, the experience is unchanged: you call our number, we coordinate the rest. Need a finished basement with a mini-split included? We size and install the HVAC at the same time as the framing, not after the drywall goes up.
If you're new to MHS, this is the cleanest way we know to introduce ourselves. Call us about an HVAC issue and you'll meet not just our HVAC partner but the whole craft circle behind him — Doug, Brian, and the trades we keep close.
Welcome to the four-trade Mission Home Solutions.
One more thing. Once we've installed or tuned a system, the next question is keeping it running well. That's what our maintenance plan is for: $39.95 a month covers gutter cleanings (which directly affect HVAC longevity — moisture damage ages out HVAC components 30% faster), a soft-wash, and a multi-point inspection. The plan and the HVAC service work in tandem.
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Why we have an HVAC partner (and not an in-house HVAC team).
Why a partnership model — not an in-house HVAC team — is the right answer for a small craft shop, and how the trusted-trades philosophy actually serves homeowners better.
$39.95 a month, $780 of home maintenance: how the subscription works.
Two gutter cleanings, a soft-wash, and a multi-point inspection — billed at $39.95 a month. Here's exactly what's in the plan, what it costs, and when it's worth it.
Project spotlight: a finished basement that became 'the deck-a-Sarous.'
Morgan F.'s finished basement and the multi-tiered 'deck-a-Sarous' that followed — told largely in her own words, from a review we keep coming back to.