M.S. Johnston has been the mechanical contractor for Martinsburg, WV since 1932. Our records show 44 completed projects in Martinsburg, including 29 commercial HVAC projects, 15 commercial refrigeration projects. Our service trucks have run 206 calls to Martinsburg businesses, so the technician who arrives has usually been to the building before.
What we do in Martinsburg
- Commercial HVAC — design, installation, and service
- Commercial refrigeration — design, installation, and service
- Emergency service for refrigeration and rooftop equipment
- Mobile refrigeration rentals when a walk-in goes down
Work we have completed in Martinsburg
A sample of commercial projects in and around Martinsburg:
The kind of work we do in Martinsburg
Our Martinsburg projects have been concentrated in schools and churches, restaurants and bars and medical and senior care. Those buildings stay open while the work happens, so the job gets staged around their hours rather than ours. With 206 service calls to the area on the books, the technician who shows up has usually been in the building before.
Nearby areas we cover
Martinsburg sits inside our regular service run along with Hagerstown, MD, Frederick, MD, Chambersburg, PA, Shepherdstown, WV. Being on that route matters when a cooler fails on a Friday afternoon.
Why Martinsburg businesses call us
One contractor covers the whole building. The rooftop units, the walk-in cooler, the kitchen line, and the ductwork that ties them together all come from the same company, fabricated in our own sheet metal shop. When something fails you make one call instead of three, and nobody argues about whose equipment it is.
We are the longest-tenured York dealer in the world, and we have been doing this from the same Hagerstown address since 1932. That matters in Martinsburg because the buildings we service, we often installed.
What happens when you call
You reach a person at 301-733-1066, not a queue. For a breakdown we ask what the equipment is, what it is protecting, and whether product or tenants are at risk right now, because that decides where it lands in the day. A walk-in cooler full of inventory outranks a thermostat reading two degrees high, and it should.
For quoted work we come out and look before we price it. We would rather spend an hour in the building than send a number from a phone description and revise it once a panel is open. When repair stops making sense against replacement we show you the arithmetic instead of the sales pitch, including what the old equipment costs to run while it limps along.
One contractor for the whole building
Most buildings in Martinsburg need three trades: something on the roof, something keeping product cold, and the ductwork tying it together. Splitting that across three contractors is how problems become somebody else's fault. We hold all three, and we fabricate the sheet metal ourselves, so a duct transition that would take days to source shows up the next morning.
That also means one service history for the building rather than three partial ones. When equipment fails years later, the record of what was installed, when, and why is still with us.
Common questions from Martinsburg
Do you charge for travel to Martinsburg?
Martinsburg is on our regular service run, so it is treated as local work.
Do you handle emergency calls?
Yes. Refrigeration failures and no-heat calls are triaged ahead of routine work, and if a repair will take time we can put a mobile refrigeration rental on site so product survives it.
Do you work on equipment you did not install?
Yes, on any commercial make. Our own installations are easier because we still hold the records, but we service whatever is in the building.