Heating and cooling
Heating and cooling, the other half of the name.
Residential and commercial heating and cooling across Shreveport and Bossier Parish, from the shop that has answered the plumbing side of this same address since 1962.
Chapter 01
Residential heating and cooling, sized for a Louisiana summer
Shreveport asks more of an air conditioner than it asks of a furnace, most years by a wide margin. The system that keeps a house livable in August is doing the harder job, and it's usually the one we get called about first, whether that's a vent blowing warm air or a unit that won't stop running.
A residential call starts the way every call here does. You describe what the system is actually doing, we tell you honestly whether it needs somebody today or whether it can wait for a normal appointment, and a tech comes out to look at it before anyone quotes a price.
Most of what goes wrong in a Shreveport house traces back to one of a short list of things: a dirty filter choking the airflow, a clogged condensate line, or a refrigerant charge that has dropped. Most of it shows itself before a full breakdown, if somebody is looking for it.
The Roach Plumbing & Heating storefront awning on Greenwood Rd in Shreveport, with the company name and phone number painted across the front.
Commercial heating and cooling, without shutting the building down
Most of Shreveport's commercial buildings run on rooftop package units, and the job on those is different from a house call in one important way: somebody is working, selling or seeing patients inside while we're on the roof. Access gets scheduled around the building's hours, the same discipline we use on a commercial lift station repair or a repipe.
A heating or cooling failure in a commercial space rarely waits for a slow week. Being reachable and telling you plainly what a repair involves before work starts is the same standard we hold on a house call, whether the building is a strip retail unit or a working shop floor.
Chapter 03
When a heating problem is actually a gas problem
A furnace that won't light, cycles oddly, or smells wrong is not always a heating problem first. Often it's a gas supply issue, a venting problem, or something happening at a water heater sharing the same gas line, and those start as plumbing calls before they're HVAC calls.
That overlap is exactly why the same shop has carried both trades since the company was named Roach Plumbing & Heating rather than just Roach Plumbing. One truck, one license number, one phone call, whichever side of the wall the fault turns out to be on.
Roach Plumbing. Louisiana license #LMP1321, USDOT 475176. Call (318) 631-4533.