One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning Franchise Review and FDD Snapshot
HVAC Installation & Service
One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning
The franchised business offers residential and light commercial air conditioning and heating services, including indoor air quality services, maintenance, repairs, equipment replacement, and other related services (but excluding industrial and new construction services).
Business Snapshot
- Industry: HVAC Installation & Service
- Headquarters: Columbia, Maryland, US
- Parent group: Authority Brands
- Website: https://onehourheatandair.com
- Parent website: https://authoritybrands.com
- Founded: 2021
Economics Highlights
- Initial fee: $43,000 base + $0.43 per person over 100,000 population. For conversion: $5,000 down payment; remainder deferred 5 years, possible forgiveness up to 100% based on 30%/40%/50% Gross Revenue increase in year 5 vs. pre-conversion (thresholds: 50%/75%/100% forgiveness). If pre-conversion < $200k, fixed thresholds $300k/$375k/$450k for 50%/75%/100%.
- Royalty: 6% of Gross Revenue or $1,500 per month (the “Minimum Royalty”), whichever is greater. Semimonthly, unless we designate a different period.
- Brand fund: Tiered: 1.5% of first $5M Gross Revenue, 1.25% of $5M-$10M, 1% of $10M-$15M, 0.75% of $15M-$20M, 0% above $20M. Reverts to 1.5% each calendar year. Payable same as Royalty Fee. Purpose: national development. No audit required, annual unaudited statement available.
- Local ad minimum: Recommended 8-12% of Gross Revenue annually. Required 8% if fail Minimum Performance Requirements for 12 months.
- Item 19 median AUV: $790,681
- Item 19 coverage: Not available
What One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning Does
The franchised business offers residential and light commercial air conditioning and heating services, including indoor air quality services, maintenance, repairs, equipment replacement, and other related services (but excluding industrial and new construction services).
This page is generated from Franchise Fox franchise and FDD-derived data. Reported franchisee counts and economics usually come from the most recent available FDD snapshot rather than manually edited marketing copy.
Scale and Filing Notes
The current Franchise Fox dataset has strong FDD coverage, but live location counts are still sparse in the denormalized export. For now, the best “size” signal is reported franchisee count.
