Fast, Reliable Emergency & Commercial HVAC Across New South Memphis
When your heat goes out at midnight in January or your commercial kitchen’s AC quits on a Saturday afternoon, you need a company that answers the phone and shows up. We do both. Our Emergency & Commercial HVAC team serves New South Memphis with same-day response to the 38106 ZIP and surrounding blocks, from the shotgun houses along South Parkway to the small commercial strips near Horn Lake Road. Call (866) 561-3358 any hour, any day. A live person picks up, takes your information, and dispatches a background-checked, uniformed technician who knows how New South Memphis’s pre-1950s housing stock and Mississippi River humidity affect your system.
Why Fireside Heating & Air Co. Is New South Memphis’s Preferred Emergency & Commercial HVAC Company
We’ve been at this since 2018. Forty-two years of showing up when we say we will, quoting a price we stand behind, and backing every job with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. That’s not marketing language. It’s how we’ve stayed in business while franchise operations and fly-by-nights have come and gone.
New South Memphis is not a cookie-cutter suburb. The narrow shotgun houses on Walker Avenue, the converted worker cottages near Mississippi Boulevard, the small auto shops and corner stores along 3rd Street - these buildings demand technicians who understand retrofit work, not just swap-outs. Our journeymen train specifically on flex-duct routing through shallow crawl spaces, multi-zone mini-split sizing for open-floor shotgun layouts, and dehumidification capacity calculations for river-adjacent humidity loads. We’ve completed hundreds of jobs in 38106. Most are done in a single visit.
Our phones are answered by a live person 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. No voicemail trees. No “leave a message and we’ll call back Monday.” When you call (866) 561-3358 at 2 a.m. because your furnace quit, you reach someone who can dispatch help.
Our technicians put on shoe covers without being asked. They work in your home the way they would in their own mother’s. Background-checked, uniformed, and trained to service Carrier, Trane, Lennox, and six other major brands. The price we quote is the price you pay. Full stop.
Our Emergency & Commercial HVAC Services in New South Memphis
24/7 Emergency HVAC
Furnaces fail on the coldest nights. AC compressors seize on the most humid afternoons. In New South Memphis, the Mississippi River floodplain traps moisture and intensifies summer heat stress on equipment. When your system quits, our emergency line - (866) 561-3358 - connects you to a live dispatcher who routes the nearest available technician. We carry common parts for Carrier, Trane, Lennox, and American Standard on every truck, which means most emergency repairs in 38106 are completed in one trip. No waiting for parts orders while your family sweats or shivers.

Commercial HVAC
The commercial buildings along South Parkway and the service shops near the railroad tracks in New South Memphis face a specific challenge: many were converted from residential structures never designed for commercial load profiles. A former shotgun house turned auto repair shop needs different airflow logic than a purpose-built structure. We recently wrapped an emergency commercial job on a three-room shotgun-turned-auto-shop on Horn Lake Road in 38106. The middle room was sweltering while the front and rear were cool - a classic problem from a single register. We swapped the undersized package unit for a multi-zone ductless system with two heads, solving the latent heat load and the shared-wall airflow issue. Our commercial work includes rooftop units, split systems, and packaged equipment for small to mid-size businesses.

Rooftop Unit Service
Flat-roof commercial buildings in New South Memphis, common along major corridors, often rely on rooftop package units. These systems take a beating from summer sun exposure and winter wind across the open river plain. Our technicians are trained to diagnose refrigerant leaks, economizer failures, and blower motor issues on RTUs from all major manufacturers. We stock belts, contactors, and capacitors for fast turnaround, and we coordinate crane service when full unit replacement is necessary.

HVAC Inspection
Before you buy a converted commercial property or heritage shotgun house in New South Memphis, an HVAC inspection reveals what you’re actually getting. We assess existing ductwork (or its absence), equipment age and condition, electrical capacity, and whether the system was sized correctly for the building’s actual load. In 38106, we regularly find window-unit wiring repurposed for central systems, flex-duct pinched in crawl spaces, and equipment oversized for the structure - all problems that cost money later if not caught early. Our inspection report gives you straight talk about repair versus replace, with upfront pricing if work is needed.

What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in New South Memphis
We train our technicians as journeymen on nine major brands: Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, York, Daikin, Bryant, and American Standard. For New South Memphis customers, this means we stock common parts locally for the brands most frequently found in area homes and businesses. Carrier and Trane equipment is especially common in the commercial retrofits we’ve handled along 3rd Street and South Parkway. Lennox and American Standard appear frequently in residential applications. When you call us, you don’t wait three days for a specialty part to ship from out of state. Our trucks carry the inventory to finish most jobs in one visit.
Common Emergency & Commercial HVAC Problems We See in New South Memphis Homes
- Uneven cooling in shotgun houses. In a classic three-room shotgun house, rooms open directly into each other with no hallway, so a single supply register or a misplaced mini-split head will overcool the middle room while the front and rear rooms stay miserable. Experienced techs in this ZIP know to specify multi-zone or at minimum two heads per house, something a technician used to standard suburban ranch homes wouldn’t anticipate.
- Pinched flex-duct in shallow crawl spaces. No original duct chases in pre-1950s homes force crews to spend extra time snake-routing flex-duct through shallow crawl spaces, risking pinch points that kill airflow. We’ve found installations where the duct was flattened to half its diameter, reducing delivered air to a trickle.
- Humidity overwhelm from undersized or poorly maintained equipment. Memphis’s humid subtropical climate is intensified in South Memphis by the neighborhood’s low elevation and proximity to the Mississippi River floodplain, producing persistently high relative humidity that overwhelms undersized or poorly maintained equipment. Latent heat load - not just temperature - drives comfort complaints here, and contractors who ignore dehumidification capacity when sizing systems will generate callbacks.
- Electrical capacity issues in converted commercial spaces. Former residential buildings turned into auto shops, small restaurants, or storefronts often operate on 100-amp service panels never designed for commercial HVAC loads. We see overheated conductors and tripped breakers from equipment that was installed without proper load calculation.
Heating and Cooling in New South Memphis Built on the K.E.Y.S. Code
Fireside Heating & Air Co. was named for the warmest word in the American memory, and that’s what we bring to New South Memphis homes. Across the Memphis Metro, we see the same story: builder-grade systems put in during the tract-home boom are hitting their stride, and the first real freeze or that July heat wave separates the maintained units from the neglected ones. We give you honest math on repair versus replace, tune-ups that actually prevent the 2 a.m. no-heat call, and a square deal on every bill.
Our technicians are trained journeymen who put on shoe covers without being asked. The Keystone Standard backs every job: 90 days, in writing, no arguing. we coordinate through our Memphis Metro service area
Heating and Cooling in New South Memphis
Memphis-area summers test every condenser, and the first real freeze finds the furnaces that got skipped last fall. Fireside keeps homes warm and cool through both, with journeymen who give you honest math on repair versus replace and tune-ups that catch trouble before it finds you at 2 a.m. We put on shoe covers without being asked, and the price we quote is the price you pay. we coordinate through our Memphis Metro service area
Our K.E.Y.S. code means every job is Krafted right, done right Every time, with Your home first and us Standing behind it. That’s the Keystone Standard: 90 days, in writing, no arguing. New customers save 10% on their first service visit.
Heating and Cooling in New South Memphis
Memphis-area summers test every condenser, and the first real freeze finds the furnaces that got skipped last fall. Fireside keeps homes warm and cool through both, with journeymen who give you honest math on repair versus replace and tune-ups that catch trouble before it finds you at 2 a.m. We put on shoe covers without being asked, and the price we quote is the price you pay. we coordinate through our Memphis Metro service area
Our K.E.Y.S. code means every job is Krafted right, done right Every time, with Your home first and us Standing behind it. That’s the Keystone Standard: 90 days, in writing, no arguing. New customers save 10% on their first service visit.
Pricing for Emergency & Commercial HVAC in New South Memphis, TN
We believe in upfront pricing. The number we quote is the number on your invoice. No add-ons, no surprises after the work begins.
| Service | Price Range in New South Memphis |
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| AC Repair | $150-$650 |
| Furnace Repair | $150-$700 |
| AC Installation | $3,500-$7,500 |
| Tune-Up | $80-$200 |
What moves a job toward the higher end? In New South Memphis, retrofit complexity is the biggest factor. Installing central AC in a shotgun house with no existing ductwork requires crawl-space routing, possible electrical upgrades, and careful zoning to avoid the middle-room-overcool problem. Commercial conversions may need panel upgrades or structural modifications for rooftop unit support. Emergency after-hours calls carry standard overtime rates, which we disclose before dispatch. We offer free estimates on replacement and new installation. Call (866) 561-3358 for an exact quote on your specific situation.
Current standing offers: $50 off any repair over $250, free second opinion on any written estimate, $89 seasonal tune-up, and a permanent 5% discount for seniors and veterans.
We Also Serve Cities Near New South Memphis
Our service radius extends throughout the Memphis metro. We regularly dispatch to New South Memphis, Memphis proper, West Memphis across the river, and the Mississippi suburbs of Horn Lake and Southaven. Same live-answer phones, same journeyman technicians, same 90-Day Done Right Promise.
Serving New South Memphis, TN - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the New South Memphis area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Emergency & Commercial HVAC in New South Memphis
The classic three-room shotgun layout has no hallway and no doors between rooms, so a single supply register blasts the middle room while conditioned air barely reaches the front and rear. We solve this by specifying multi-zone ductless mini-splits with at least two heads, or carefully designed flex-duct runs with balancing dampers. Call (866) 561-3358 for a free assessment of your specific layout.
Yes. Our emergency line - (866) 561-3358 - is answered live 24/7, and we dispatch to commercial addresses in the 38106 ZIP including converted storefronts, auto shops, and small warehouses. We carry parts for rooftop units, package systems, and split equipment on our trucks to minimize downtime.
Yes. Most New South Memphis homes from this era were built for wood stoves or window units, with no duct chases. We routinely install ductless mini-split systems that require only a three-inch hole through the exterior wall per head, or we route flex-duct through shallow crawl spaces with minimal intrusion. The best approach depends on your crawl space height, electrical panel capacity, and how many rooms need conditioning. We’ll give you straight talk about both options after a site visit.
We service and install all nine major brands we train on: Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, York, Daikin, Bryant, and American Standard. For commercial applications in the Memphis area, we most commonly encounter Carrier, Trane, and Lennox rooftop and split systems. We stock parts locally for fast turnaround on service calls.
Commercial tune-ups in New South Memphis typically run $150-$400 depending on system type and accessibility, with standard split-system maintenance at the lower end and rooftop unit service requiring roof access at the higher end. Our $89 seasonal tune-up special applies to residential systems; commercial maintenance agreements are quoted individually based on equipment count and service frequency. Call (866) 561-3358 for a custom commercial maintenance quote.
Ready to get your system sorted? Call Fireside Heating & Air Co. at (866) 561-3358 for a free estimate. A live person will answer, day or night, and we’ll dispatch a technician who knows New South Memphis’s housing stock, its humidity challenges, and how to get your job done right in one trip.
Written by Glen Hartman, Owner at Fireside Heating & Air Co., serving New South Memphis since 2018.