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A Hundred Miles of Central Texas

Home base is Burnet, and the trucks run roughly 100 miles in every direction: 16 counties, 83 towns, one 24-hour phone line. From the Highland Lakes to Austin, Killeen to Waco, Fredericksburg to New Braunfels, if you are on this map, you are in our territory. Call (512) 925-3090 and a real person answers.

Based in Burnet · Serving 16 Counties

Local Enough to Know Your Weather

A hundred miles sounds like a big circle until you drive it every week. The truth about Central Texas is that the weather changes by county, and so does the housing. Lake homes around Buchanan and LBJ fight humidity and hard water. The limestone hills west of 281 store heat all day and cook condensers into the night. The I-35 corridor from Georgetown to Round Rock is packed with newer subdivisions whose builder-grade systems all seem to hit their first big failure the same summer. Out east toward Rockdale and Cameron the blackland houses run older equipment with duct systems from another era.

We work all of it, every week, out of one shop in Burnet. That matters because a tech who saw the same failure mode two towns over yesterday diagnoses your system faster today. It also means the truck is stocked for the housing on your side of the map, and the arrival window you get on the phone reflects real drive times, honestly quoted.

Every county below links to its own page, and so does every town. Those pages get specific: the local housing stock, the local weather quirks, and the services we run most in that area. Or skip all of it, tell us where you are and what the house is doing, and we will take it from there. That is what the contact page and the 24-hour line are for.

16 Counties · 83 Towns

Pick Your County

Blue cards and white cards, one per county. Click the county for the full local page, or jump straight to your town.

Burnet County

Home turf. The shop sits in Burnet, and these are the lake towns we know street by street.

Williamson County

The growth corridor. Leander to Taylor, full of newer builds whose builder-grade systems start acting up around year five.

Travis County

Austin and the lake country west of it. City lots, hillside homes, and everything along the Colorado.

Bell County

Killeen, Temple, Belton. Fort Cavazos country, where fast response matters to families and landlords alike.

Hays County

San Marcos up through Kyle, Buda, Dripping Springs, and Wimberley. River valleys, limestone heat, real humidity.

Bastrop County

East of Austin in the Lost Pines. Sandier soil, taller trees, and summers that lean on an AC just as hard.

Caldwell County

Lockhart and Luling. Barbecue capital territory, and the smokehouses are not the only thing running hot.

Blanco County

Blanco and Johnson City, up through LBJ country on 281 and 290. Ranch houses, weekend places, and long driveways we know well.

Llano County

Llano, Kingsland, and Sunrise Beach Village. The granite side of the Highland Lakes, where lake humidity and well water both work on equipment.

Coryell County

Copperas Cove and Gatesville, over the ridge northwest of Killeen. A quick run from the Bell County routes we already drive daily.

Lampasas County

Lampasas and Kempner, a straight shot up 281 from home base. Some of our fastest response times outside Burnet County itself.

Comal County

New Braunfels, Garden Ridge, and Bulverde. German Hill Country, river tourism, and systems that never get a day off.

Milam County

Rockdale, Cameron, Milano, and Thorndale. The quiet blackland towns east of the corridor.

Mclennan County

Waco, Hewitt, Bellmead, and Woodway. The north end of our hundred miles.

Kendall County

Boerne, holding down the southwest corner of the map. Hill Country stone homes with systems that earn their keep in August.

Gillespie County

Fredericksburg. Wine-country weekends, peach stands, guest cottages, and a whole lot of casitas that want a quiet, efficient mini-split.

Off Duty service van loaded for a call in Central Texas

Straight Talk About Distance

What 100 Miles Means in Practice

Here is the honest version, because we would rather set expectations than break them. Burnet, Marble Falls, and the Highland Lakes towns are minutes away, and emergency response there is as fast as it gets. The corridor towns, Georgetown, Leander, Cedar Park, Round Rock, and the Bell County cities are well-worn routes we run constantly. The outer ring, Waco, Boerne, Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, San Marcos, is real territory we genuinely serve, with drive times quoted honestly when you call.

For after-hours emergencies, closer calls get faster trucks, and that is just physics. What does not change with distance is the standard: the same diagnosis process, the same straight explanation, the same fair pricing whether you are two miles from the shop or ninety. Nobody gets a B-team, because there is no B-team. The tech who answers the phone in Burnet is the tech who shows up in Boerne. If you sit just outside the circle, call anyway. Odds are decent we already have a customer down the road from you, and if we truly cannot serve you well, we will say so and point you somewhere honest. You can see the kind of work that rides along on every one of those miles in the job gallery.

The Central Texas Calendar

Every Season Works This Map Differently

June through September is condenser season everywhere on the map, but it hits the lake counties first. Humidity off Buchanan, LBJ, and Marble Falls makes systems run longer cycles, freeze coils faster when the charge drops, and clog drain lines with the algae that loves a warm wet pan. The corridor towns run a week or two behind, and when Austin hits its first 105-degree stretch, every undersized builder-grade system from Pflugerville to Jarrell announces itself at once.

October is tune-up season, and the smart half of the map books early. The first real front usually arrives in November, and the first hard freeze finds every weak heat pump, every crusted blower wheel, and every thermostat that lost its mind over the summer. February ice storms are the great equalizer: when the grid strains and the temperature stays under freezing for three days, the entire hundred miles calls at once, and the maintenance customers are the ones sitting warm.

Spring brings live oak pollen that packs filters in weeks, and the storm season that follows brings the flood and lightning claims we help document for insurance. We wrote the seasonal playbook into every county page below because the right month to act is almost always the month before you think you need to.

Sealing attic ductwork ahead of summer in a Central Texas home

Coverage Questions

Where, How Fast, and What It Costs to Find Out

Is there a trip charge for the outer towns?

Distance is part of the visit cost, and we tell you the exact number on the phone before a truck ever rolls, whether you are in Burnet or out in Waco. No surprises on the invoice, no mileage math after the fact. The price you hear up front is the price. For bigger projects like full system replacements, travel typically washes out entirely, and we will say so when we quote it.

How fast can you reach me in an emergency?

The phone is answered around the clock, and the on-call truck rolls by priority: no-cooling and no-heat calls first, closest first. In the Highland Lakes core, after-hours response is usually quick. In the corridor and outer counties, we quote the honest drive time when you call, at any hour. What we do not do is promise a fifteen-minute miracle to win the call and then leave you waiting three hours. You get the real window, and we keep it.

My town is not on the list. Will you still come?

Probably. The 83 towns on this page are the roster we commit to, but the circle is drawn in pencil, not ink. If you are a few miles past the edge, near Goldthwaite, or out past Giddings, call and ask. If we can serve you well, we will. If the distance would make us slow or expensive for you, we will say that straight and help you find someone closer. Either way you get an honest answer in one phone call.

Do you know my area or just drive to it?

Every county page on this site is written from jobs we have actually run there, and each one covers the local housing and weather patterns that shape the work: lake humidity in Kingsland, limestone heat in Blanco County, the builder-grade equipment cycle in Williamson County subdivisions, the older ductwork out in Milam County. A tech who has spent ten years working this exact hundred miles reads a system differently than one who just moved a service area on a map. That local pattern recognition is half of a fast diagnosis.

Where are you actually located?

Burnet, Texas, ten minutes from Lake Buchanan. That is a real shop, not a mailbox. Bryce lives here, hunts and fishes here, and raised the company here. When the July 2025 flood hit Burnet, this company was part of the recovery, replacing a flooded family’s system alongside Samaritan’s Purse. We put the address on every page because we want you to know exactly whose name and reputation is riding on your job.

Do commercial jobs get the same coverage?

Yes. Restaurants, offices, shops, and warehouses across the whole map get the same 24-hour line and the same response priorities, and commercial refrigeration emergencies, a walk-in cooler dying with a weekend of product inside, get treated with exactly the urgency you would hope. We also run preventative maintenance agreements for commercial customers across the corridor, which is the cheapest way to keep your name off the emergency board entirely.

Which towns get same-day routine service?

Routine calls, tune-ups, diagnostics that can wait until morning, small repairs, usually land same-day or next-day inside Burnet County and the Highland Lakes: Burnet, Marble Falls, Bertram, Granite Shoals, Meadowlakes, Cottonwood Shores, Highland Haven, Horseshoe Bay, and Buchanan Dam. The corridor and Bell County towns typically book within a day or two depending on the season. July heat waves and February freezes compress everybody’s schedule, which is one more argument for the maintenance visit that keeps you out of the emergency queue in the first place. Whatever the season, you get a real date and a real window when you call, never a “sometime this week.”

On the Map? Then You Are Covered.

One shop, 16 counties, zero call centers. Tell us where you are and what the house is doing, and you will have a real arrival window before you hang up. Day or night, the second generation answers.

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