{
  "title": "Who Is Buying Plumbing Businesses in 2026? PE Platforms and Strategics",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/who-is-buying-plumbing-businesses/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-24",
  "updated": "2026-10-24",
  "section": "Private equity",
  "keyword": "who is buying plumbing businesses",
  "short_answer": "Most plumbing businesses that sell to a company, not a person, sell to a private-equity-backed home services platform such as Apex Service Partners, Wrench Group, Sila Services, Redwood Services, Heartland Home Services, Southern Home Services, Any Hour Group or ARS/Rescue Rooter. Roto-Rooter, owned by the public company Chemed, mostly buys back its own franchises. Individual buyers with SBA loans buy many of the smaller shops.",
  "facts": {
    "Apex Service Partners": [
      "Alpine Investors; Apollo funds agreed a minority stake (May 2026)",
      "75 local brands in 46 states",
      "Apollo release, May 2026"
    ],
    "Wrench Group": [
      "Leonard Green & Partners (majority) with TSG Consumer and Oak Hill (minority, 2022)",
      "24 markets in 13 states (2022)",
      "Oak Hill release, November 2022"
    ],
    "Sila Services": [
      "Goldman Sachs Alternatives (majority, from Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, 2024)",
      "Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest",
      "Goldman Sachs release, November 2024"
    ],
    "Redwood Services": [
      "Union Main Group; Altas Partners invested in May 2025",
      "National, more than 20 partner companies",
      "Kirkland & Ellis, May 2025; HVAC Insider, July 2026"
    ],
    "Heartland Home Services": [
      "The Jordan Company (bought from North Branch Capital, December 2020)",
      "Midwest",
      "Kirkland & Ellis, December 2020"
    ],
    "Southern Home Services": [
      "Gryphon Investors (majority since October 2021, then called Southern HVAC)",
      "Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic",
      "Gryphon release, October 2021"
    ],
    "Any Hour Group": [
      "Knox Lane (since July 2021)",
      "Utah and the Mountain West",
      "Lee's Plumbing release, November 2025"
    ],
    "ARS/Rescue Rooter": [
      "Privately owned; owner not named in its release",
      "Nationwide",
      "ARS release, May 2026"
    ],
    "Roto-Rooter": [
      "Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHE)",
      "United States and Canada",
      "Chemed 10-K, fiscal 2025"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/pressreleases/2026/05/apex-service-partners-and-alpine-investors-announce-strategic-mi",
    "https://oakhill.com/?p=3962",
    "https://am.gs.com/en-us/institutions/news/press-release/2024/sila-services-investment",
    "https://hvacinsider.com/sila-services-continues-eastern-pa-growth-with-acquisition-of-oxford-plumbing-heating/",
    "https://www.kirkland.com/news/press-release/2025/05/kirkland-advises-altas-partners-on-investment-in-redwood-services",
    "https://hvacinsider.com/redwood-services-invests-in-the-team-and-culture-behind-tulsas-hendrick-heat-air-plumbing/",
    "https://www.kirkland.com/news/press-release/2020/12/kirkland-advises-jordan-co-on-three-acquisitions",
    "https://www.newswire.com/news/heartland-home-services-welcomes-hurlburt-heating-ac-plumbing-21787853",
    "https://www.gryphon-inv.com/news/gryphon-investors-completes-majority-investment-in-southern-hvac-and-announces-new-home-services-holding-company/",
    "https://digital-release.kxan.com/business/press-releases/cision/20260519FL63272/southern-home-services-expands-mid-atlantic-presence-with-acquisition-of-blazer-heating-air-plumbing-in-richmond",
    "https://www.hjnews.com/news/state/any-hour-group-expands-into-northern-utah-with-the-acquisition-of-lees-plumbing-inc/article_4489841a-53e7-5737-8d61-233b368ba4f7.html",
    "https://digital-release.kxan.com/business/press-releases/cision/20260519CL63200/american-residential-services-llc-continues-to-expand-with-the-acquisition-of-tipping-hat-plumbing-heating-electric",
    "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19584/000156276226000020/che-20251231x10k.htm"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}