Tim Melton, left, and Scott Melton with one of the company’s trucks at the old facility on Charles Seivers Blvd. Scott started Melton Heating and Air Conditioning in 1978 and Tim runs the company now.
Thirty years after Scott Melton started selling electrical supplies and doing electrical work part-time, the company that bears his name Melton Heating & Air Conditioning is celebrating 30 years in business.
An open house, complete with food, drinks, door prizes and radio broadcasts, will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 16.
The company’s new facility 10,000 square feet and three times the former location on Charles Seivers Boulevard is at 104 C East Centre Stage Business Park, just off J.D. Yarnell Parkway.
Scott Melton said he started part-time selling supplies, often to fellow employees at the Y-12 Plant. Melton worked there from 1975-1985, when he went into business for himself full-time.
His son, Tim Melton, joined him in 1989. The family has deep roots in the community. Scott is from Andersonville and is a graduate of Norris High School. Tim, who said he
“was hatched here,” graduated from Clinton High School in 1982 and spent six years in the Air Force before joining his dad in the
business.
The business was first on Moore Street, the forerunner of Seivers Boulevard, and Scott still lives in the large white house behind Papa John’s Pizza.
The company services all brands of heating and air conditioning
units.It installs Trane and Mitsubishi heating and air conditioning systems. Melton H&A is a founding member of Trane’s Comfort Specialist program.
Tim said the company takes pride in being “the only (Heating & Air) company that’s never had a complaint” filed with the Better Business Bureau. Melton Heating &Air Conditioning has been a member of BBB since 1997.
The company works in Anderson, Knox and a portion of Campbell counties, Tim said. It has 14 employees.
The new facility gives the company and employees “room to breathe,” Tim said. He explained the added space helps with efficiency
“every morning just loading and getting out” to job sites
