Altamonte Springs Refrigeration, Ice Machine, and HVAC Repair Experts

We have been providing Altamonte Springs refrigeration, ice machine, and HVAC repair services for many years. We are highly focused on commercial refrigeration and A/C. We are truly experts in commercial refrigeration and HVAC.

Partial List of Representative Altamonte Springs Refrigeration and Commercial HVAC Customers

Below is a list of just a few of many of our Altamonte Springs refrigeration and HVAC customers. (Please see a more complete list of all of our AC and refrigeration representative customers, for a better snap shot of our entire customer base throughout Central Florida):

Long John Silvers, Refrigeration and HVAC
168 Chinese Restaurant, Refrigeration and HVAC
Trinity Baptist Church, Refrigeration and HVAC
Maters & Taters, Refrigeration and HVAC
Philly Connection, Refrigeration and HVAC
Orlando Heart Specialists, HVAC
. . . and many more Altamonte Springs refrigeration repair customers! How can we possibly remember them all after so many years?!

Our Altamonte Springs Refrigeration Roots Run Deep

The owner of Marathon Air actually started his career working with restaurants in nearby Apopka, as the owner of JP’s Restaurant Supply, which was located on 436 on the way to Altamonte Springs in Apopka. He owned and operated that small store front on State Road 436 in Apopka, where many local fellow Altamonte Springs business owners shopped in his small store for their restaurant refrigeration supplies and equipment. This gave him a unique understanding of refrigeration needs, not shared by many competitor refrigeration service companies. He started that business in 1991 and eventually turned control over to other members of his family, who still currently operate in Apopka (International Restaurant Distributors, or IRD). The owner of Marathon Air also partially owns and, for many years managed, the Dairy Queen Restaurant on 436 in Apopka, so he understands the ownership and operation of restaurants, and his Altamonte Springs roots run deep. He ventured into air conditioning as part of servicing his store customers with their refrigeration and air conditioning needs. This led to his full-time refrigeration and HVAC service work and movement away from the family restaurant supply store business.

When working in Altamonte Springs and Apopka, the owner of Marathon Air also coordinated ground-up restaurant build-outs, in the refrigeration side of this business. This soon led to the creation of Marathon Air, a business focused on solving all commercial air conditioning and refrigeration problems, not just restaurants. He added commercial HVAC to his knowledge about refrigeration. He decided to shift from Apopka storefront to in-the-field-refrigeration service mainly because he enjoyed driving in a truck, meeting other business owners, and working with his hands. He is a highly skilled, meticulous and reliable Altamonte Springs refrigeration and ice machine technician. You will be glad you called him.

Commercial Refrigeration and HVAC Expertise

These days, Marathon Air services a wide variety of commercial customers, including strip malls, stores, gas stations, restaurants, office complexes and buildings, hospitals, churches, and even airports. We are an all-inclusive Altamonte Springs area company, doing commercial air conditioning and refrigeration replacement and repair work. Unlike most of our competitors, we are highly focused on commercial refrigeration and HVAC.

Marathon Air provides reliable repair service for your commercial refrigeration equipment. We service most name brands such as True, Manitowoc, Hoshizaki, Master-Bilt, Trane, Lennox, Carrier, Ruud, and hundreds more. We also provide commercial AC and refrigeration preventative maintenance.

Want Proof For Yourself?

Just read the different AC company websites and ask yourself: which company is really focused on commercial and include refrigeration services? This matters, if you own a business. After all, companies advertise for the type of business they want to receive and are competent to handle. Our almost single-minded focus, appears to make us a very different animal in this industry. We have done nearly 90% commercial HVAC and refrigeration sales, installations and repairs from day one. This is where we are comfortable, as you can tell by our website focus, representative customer list, and photos of our work. Commercial refrigeration and HVAC service and repair work has always been our emphasis. For us, this type of work is not an add-on to a primary residential service company (we do residential HVAC, but not much–usually for the owners of the businesses who hire us for their commercial HVAC and refrigeration work). And we work in Altamonte Springs all of the time.

Comparison Shop

Many other HVAC companies, as you can see from their websites, focus on residential work, or have a divided focus. Take a look at our home andphoto pages. Then compare for yourself. Doing something over and over kind of makes you better, which is the case with us, and commercial refrigeration and air conditioning work. We simply have experience, and a lot of it, doing commercial refrigeration repair work.

Creativity and Affordability

Commercial refrigeration and HVAC, which we perform throughout Altamonte Springs and Greater Orlando, requires clever remedies to often varied and complex refrigeration equipment issues. The more experience we gain, the more innovative we become. We feel sure that we have encountered nearly every difficulty that happens in the commercial refrigeration and air conditioning world. So many times we can suggest practical and effective, sometimes unique and money-saving solutions. For example, we might replace a door hinge, or have a metal piece fabricated by a local metal fabrication shop, instead of trying to sell you new systems. This is particularly true if the unit does not need replacement. To help you, we might also call on refrigeration brand manufacturers. We have been there many times, so we know when this might help. Just last month we were waiting from a call back from a display cooler manufacturer, specifically from their engineers, regarding how to replace the heat strip on one of their refrigerator doors. We are not afraid to questions to solve difficult refrigeration equipment problems. But usually we don’t need to call because we have learned from many years of refrigeration repair experience.

You Can’t See What You Can’t See

Have you ever looked at uneven trim work in a home? The same sort of thing happens in commercial HVAC and refrigeration, you just can’t see it. Poor workmanship affects refrigeration cooling capacity. It’s really that simple.

Solid Work Product Comes From Solid Work Ethic

Whenever you must purchase new A/C or refrigeration systems, our prices are always reasonable. We also care, very much, about our work product. Work ethic matters to us. So when we start welding, we keep the torch in our hands until the refrigeration connection is unbreakable. We never put ourselves on mental cruise control. We consider less obvious things like window placement and type, customer and employee locations in relation to the angle of the sun, your hood functionality, and many other things. We seal every refrigeration joint well because they all make a big difference. These are critical to proper refrigeration equipment temperature, especially in more complex commercial facilities.

Cutting Corners Would Be Easy, But We Do Not

Unfortunately, these are also (hidden) areas where a less scrupulous or ethical contractor could easily cut corners. This is sad for all consumers, really, because this part of a good refrigeration repair job is totally impossible for you to see with your own eyes. When comparing air conditioning or refrigeration companies, you cannot easily compare anything other than the price tags. And even those are hard to compare because you are never comparing apples to apples. But, as with most things, there are methods to doing a worse job, usually saving time to the contractor. You really just have to judge character, and company philosophy, for yourself. We can just say we have never been that way and never will be. Our well-entrenched company philosophy is that approach would cost us in the long run because our refrigeration and HVAC customers will feel the positive difference with our work.

Our Refrigeration Business Built Primarily On Referrals

From our first day in business, we have made it our mission to provide the “best-of-the-best” commercial refrigeration and HVAC service. Even better, we handle each piece of refrigeration equipment like it really matters. Because it does. We think that is the reason our phone most often rings from repeat customers. We have received countless praise and thanks when returning customers have asked us to help them with new refrigeration systems or repairs. Very often, business owners or managers realize quickly that they may want to call us again. So they add us to their phone contacts right away. Many talk to us like we are their allies in business, which is the way we see ourselves. Solid business relationships, and happy customers, have led to many referrals. As a matter of fact, as of the writing of this website, when we created our list of representative customers, and gathered photos of our work, we had done virtually no advertising whatsoever! We are actually amazed ourselves at the variety and depth of our customer list, all acquired with practically no advertising. That only happens when you do good work, time after time, reliably, honestly, and fairly.

Where We Work

We frequently provide refrigeration repair work in and around Altamonte Springs. Many our commercial HVAC and refrigeration customers in Altamonte Springs have been with us for many years.

Refrigeration and HVAC Brands Serviced

True, Hoshizaki, Manitowoc, Master-Bilt, Trane, Carrier, Ruud, Carrier, and hundreds more.

Types of Altamonte Springs Equipment We Repair and Sell

Commercial refrigeration of all types, ice makers, display coolers and freezers, HVAC equipment and basically anything that cools anything in your Altamonte Springs store, business or restaurant. We also provide warranty work for numerous refrigeration and HVAC brands throughout the Altamonte Springs area.

Helpful Refrigeration Tips for Altamonte Springs Stores, Restaurants and Commercial Establishments

We do everything within our power to minimize the time that you have to wait and we absolutely prioritize emergency calls. We understand that you may be losing food products or gaining unhappy customers because your restaurant or business is not maintaining proper refrigeration equipment or room temperature. So we always hurry to see you. In the meantime, these are our suggestions to minimize business interruption problems:

Installing back-up pieces of your most highly used pieces of refrigeration equipment is a good idea.
Close your cooler doors (and instruct your employees on this important point)
Sounds simple, but never forget that you can buy ice if your ice machine breaks. Also you can use ice or dry ice (as much as you can stuff into your units) to keep your cooler or freezer at least a little bit cooler until we arrive.
Change your filters and keep your equipment coils cleaned, which will greatly improve their energy efficiency and also lead to fewer equipment malfunctions. To make sure this happens, we recommend our preventive maintenance contracts.
In a pinch, you might want to purchase a portable air conditioner for use in your business, as a back-up plan.