California Heating & Plumbing installs and services the boilers, rooftop units, chillers, and plumbing that keep schools, hospitals, plants, and public facilities running across the Central Coast and beyond — self-performed, dual-licensed, and public-works ready.
California Heating & Plumbing is a commercial mechanical contractor built on the same family-owned roots as our sister electrical company, California Electric. We carry both C-20 HVAC and C-36 plumbing classifications, so a single contract covers your heating, cooling, and piping scope — with crews who self-perform the work instead of handing it down a chain of subcontractors.
From boiler plants and rooftop units to process refrigeration and backflow protection, we serve facilities that cannot afford guesswork: hospitals, schools, government buildings, food processors, and manufacturers across California's Central Coast and statewide on public-works projects.
Heating, plumbing, and HVAC under one roof — engineered, installed, and maintained by the people who stand behind it.
Packaged rooftop units, VAV systems, and split systems engineered and installed for offices, schools, and retail centers — from a single RTU swap to a full mechanical fit-out.
Hydronic boiler plants, makeup air units, unit heaters, and radiant systems sized for the load and built to keep production floors and facilities warm through every shift.
Sanitary and domestic water systems, process piping, commercial water heaters, and backflow protection installed to code and inspected without surprises.
Air- and water-cooled chiller plants, cooling towers, and pump systems for healthcare, data, and process-cooling environments that cannot afford downtime.
Direct digital controls and energy-management systems that tie your mechanical equipment together, cut runtime, and give facilities staff real visibility.
In-house sheet-metal fabrication for custom duct runs, plenums, and transitions — fabricated to spec and installed by the same crews that build it.
Walk-in coolers, freezers, and process refrigeration for Central Coast agriculture, food processing, and restaurants where temperature is the product.
Title 24-compliant mechanical retrofits, high-efficiency equipment replacement, and rebate-eligible upgrades that lower operating cost across the building.
Scheduled maintenance agreements that keep equipment under warranty, extend service life, and replace emergency calls with planned visits.
K-12, districts & colleges
Public works & civic facilities
Clinics, labs & medical gas
Plants & process floors
Cooling, packing & coolers
Kitchens, hoods & resorts
Centers & multi-tenant
Process & precision cooling
We speak the language of public construction — certified payroll, prevailing wage, bonding, and DBE participation. For general contractors bidding schools, county facilities, and state projects, we're a mechanical partner who keeps the compliance paperwork as tight as the pipe joints.
We walk the facility, measure the real load, and document existing conditions before a single number goes on paper.
Right-sized equipment selection, mechanical drawings, and a scope written so general contractors and owners know exactly what they are getting.
Title 24, prevailing-wage, and DIR paperwork handled in-house, with permits pulled and inspections scheduled around your timeline.
Self-performing crews set, pipe, and wire the equipment, then commission and balance the system so it performs on day one.
Our own pipefitters, sheet-metal workers, and HVAC techs do the work — not a chain of subs you never met.
C-20 mechanical and C-36 plumbing under one contract means one accountable team for the whole mechanical scope.
DIR registered and fluent in prevailing wage, certified payroll, and bonded public projects.
A locally owned, minority and woman-owned contractor that helps GCs meet DBE participation goals.
Realistic timelines and clear change-order communication. No vanishing crews, no surprise invoices.
When a boiler or chiller drops on a Saturday, a real technician answers and rolls a truck.
A sample of recent commercial heating, cooling, and plumbing installs across California.
Replaced a failing dual-boiler hot-water plant for a regional medical center with high-efficiency condensing boilers and new hydronic pumps — phased to keep the building heated through construction.
Set 38 packaged rooftop units across six campus buildings and tied them into a new DDC building-automation system under a prevailing-wage public-works contract.
Designed and installed glycol process cooling and walk-in refrigeration for a Central Coast vegetable processor, holding tight temperatures through peak harvest throughput.
Removed an aging water-cooled chiller and cooling tower from a multi-story county facility and commissioned a high-efficiency replacement with minimal occupant disruption.
Fabricated and installed exhaust hoods, make-up air units, and gas piping for a resort culinary expansion, balanced and commissioned ahead of the grand opening.
Full Title 24 mechanical retrofit of a manufacturing facility — new rooftop units, process piping, and energy-management controls qualifying for utility rebates.
They self-performed the entire mechanical scope and hit every milestone on our occupied-campus project. Certified payroll was clean and the inspections passed first time.
Our boiler failed in January. They had a temporary fixed by midnight and the permanent plant commissioned within the week. That responsiveness keeps our beds warm.
Honest numbers and no games on change orders. For a county public-works job that matters as much as the install quality. We bid them on everything now.
Headquartered in Salinas, we serve commercial and public clients throughout Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Santa Clara counties — and travel statewide for public-works and multi-site facility programs.
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