We buy HVAC businesses and keep them running.
Silvercrest acquires established UK heating, ventilation and air conditioning companies from owners who are ready to step back. We hold them, invest in them, and join them together. We are not a fund and we are not brokering your business to someone else.
We are the buyer.
The money is committed and the decision-makers are the people you meet. No investment committee you never see.
The business keeps trading.
Same name, same engineers, same customers. Most owners stay six to twelve months, some longer, some not at all — that is a conversation, not a condition.
We move at a sensible pace.
Indicative offer in weeks, not quarters, because we do the research before we approach you.
We’ve probably already read your accounts.
We screen the UK HVAC market continuously — every filing, every company, refreshed. Turnover and margin trends, headcount, service mix, shareholder structure, age of the principals. By the time we get in touch we understand roughly how your business performs and why, so the first call is a conversation between people who know the sector rather than an hour of you explaining it.
It also means we are interested in businesses that look tired on paper. A 3% margin in a market that supports 10% is not a red flag to us. It is usually the reason to talk.
The shape of the group we are building.
One group of regional HVAC businesses that keep their names and their engineers, with the parts nobody enjoys running handled centrally.
- National coverage built from strong regional businesses.
- Installation and service under one roof.
- Recurring maintenance as the backbone.
- Shared commercial, finance and technology, so branches stop doing their own back office.
If you are within a few years of stepping back, an early, private conversation costs you nothing.
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