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- TDLR requires an ACR contractor in every permanent location, head office included
- Texas licenses HVAC, plumbing and electrical, and licenses neither roofing nor fencing
- Austin metro housing is nine years newer than Houston, DFW and San Antonio
- Austin runs the Uniform Mechanical Code where most of Texas runs the International
Licensed statewide, and the location rule catches multi-branch companies
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation licenses air conditioning and refrigeration contractors. Its own wording: contractors who install, repair or maintain systems related to air conditioning, refrigeration or heating must have a TDLR licence, and ACR companies must employ an ACR contractor in each permanent location.
That last clause is the one that catches growing companies. A second branch is not covered by the first branch's licensed contractor. Anyone opening a location in another metro needs to solve for it before the doors open rather than after an inspection.
Texas licenses HVAC, plumbing and electrical. It licenses neither roofing nor fencing, which is worth knowing when a customer asks what “licensed and insured” actually covers on a mixed job.
Four metros, and one of them is nine years newer
Pulled on one Census table and one vintage, the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro records a median year of construction of 2002. Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio all read 1993.
Nine years is a real structural difference. Austin's stock is arriving at its first major replacement window now; the other three are well into second and third replacements. The same campaign will not fit both.
The city cores diverge further. Dallas city reads 1981, Houston city 1981, against metros a decade newer. Detached share and owner-occupancy drop sharply at the city line in all four. Owner-occupier replacement demand lives in the suburban rings; the cores run through landlords and managers.
February 2021, and a capital city on a different code
The Texas Department of Insurance recorded 510,772 claims and roughly $11.2 billion in expected ultimate insured losses from the February 2021 winter storm, naming freezing pipes first among the causes. Travis County alone filed 31,823 claims. TDI does not break out a pipe-specific count, and neither will we.
The relevance for this trade is that Texas households now have a lived reference point for what happens when heating fails at scale, in a state where heating is the secondary season. That is a durable argument for maintenance and for backup, and it is dated rather than hypothetical.
One code detail worth carrying: from 10 July 2025 Austin runs the 2024 Uniform Mechanical and Plumbing Codes from IAPMO rather than the International codes most of Texas uses. A company working Austin and Houston is working two different mechanical code families.
This page covers hvac across Texas. The wider state picture, and the metro-by-metro detail beneath it, sits on the Texas market page.
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What is missing is deliberate: no cost per lead, no conversion rate, no local benchmark. Those move by market and season, and any number published here would be wrong by the time you read it. Your own account holds the real one, and our calculators do the arithmetic once you have it.
We publish the complete measurement protocol before you pay anything: the six-layer audit, the sampling method, a real report with the numbers left in. No ranking guarantees.
Fair questions about hvac in Texas
Do I need a separate licence for a second Texas branch?
TDLR requires ACR companies to employ an ACR contractor in each permanent location, so a second branch needs its own. Solve it before opening rather than at inspection.
Is Texas housing stock uniform across the metros?
No. Austin's metro median build year is 2002 against 1993 for Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio on the same Census table and vintage. Austin is reaching its first replacement window; the others are past it.
Which mechanical code applies in Austin?
Since 10 July 2025 Austin uses the 2024 Uniform Mechanical and Plumbing Codes from IAPMO, rather than the International codes used across most of Texas.
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