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The Tuesday before Christmas, Tim Barfield, owner of Airstat Heating & Cooling, came over in the morning and installed a cozy, beautiful set of gas logs in our fireplace. It was good timing, as temperatures dipped into the twenties for a few days. It’s even better timing now. The forecast for tomorrow morning in Peachtree City is fourteen degrees, with more days like it predicted this week. Yikes!
Thankfully, numbers like these are rare in these parts. What may be rarer is a guy like Tim Barfield. Tim is a second-generation HVAC expert. His father was a pioneer in the field, starting a business installing central air conditioning in businesses in 1949. In those days, movie theaters advertised air conditioning along with film titles. People were as excited about getting cool as they were about seeing an Oscar-winning movie.
As a kid, Tim learned a lot while working as his father’s sidekick. In 1971, just as he was heading to college, his father died in a car accident. At one point, Tim had to sell his car to pay tuition. After graduating in 1975, he followed in his dad’s footsteps, starting Airstat Co., which offers heating, air conditioning, and electrical services.
While maintaining Airstat, he also owned a hardware store in Bainbridge, Georgia, for a few years before relocating to Peachtree City in 1986. For five years, he rode the city’s building boom, working for as many as 25 local contractors at a time, buying two or three permits a day, running a crew, managing subcontractors, passing inspections, chasing receivables–all the challenges and headaches you can imagine in those fast-paced days. In the early 90s, he sold the new construction aspect of the business and, for more than 30 years, has focused on changing and repairing units and ductwork in existing homes. He continues to help people with their air conditioning systems. He also specializes in repairing fireplaces and installing gas logs. After more than half a…
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