Who issues my permit — Marietta or the county?

The county, unless your parcel is genuinely inside the Marietta city limits, which a Marietta mailing address does not tell you. The county publishes a jurisdiction lookup for exactly this reason. We check the parcel before we book the install.

My neighbor re-roofed without a permit. Why do I need one to replace an air conditioner?

Because they are treated differently here. The county exempts residential standard-tab shingle replacement and does not exempt mechanical equipment replacement — the permit has to be issued before the work starts, and it is only issued against a state license card number. It is in our price and we pull it.

How long does it take you to get here?

Twenty-nine free-flow minutes, and it is surface roads rather than interstate, so this is one of the runs where real traffic differs most from the free-flow figure. We give you a window and we call before we come.

Heating and Air in East Cobb, GA | Vandiver Heating & Air

County: Cobb County
From the shop: about 29 minutes, 14.7 miles
ZIP codes we serve: 30062 · 30066 · 30068

Shallowford Road to Johnson Ferry Road; GA-120 and Sandy Plains Road. Drive times are free-flow routing with no traffic model in them. Treat every one as a floor, not a promise.

What we run into in East Cobb

There is no city here, so the county permits everything

This is unincorporated county with no municipal government of its own; a cityhood referendum was defeated in May 2022 by roughly seventy-three percent to twenty-seven. Every building permit in it is issued by the county's community development agency. The practical consequence catches people out constantly: a mailing address that says Marietta is not a Marietta city address, and the office that issues your permit is not the one your envelope names. We have pulled both often enough to know which is which from the parcel rather than from the letterhead.

The county permits an HVAC changeout but not a shingle re-roof

The county's own exemption list says that residential standard-tab shingle replacement needs no permit. Its subcontractor permit request, meanwhile, carries a heating and HVAC scope with a replacement line for heating equipment, air conditioning equipment, heat pumps and duct work, requires the technician's state license card number, and states plainly that the permit is issued before any work may commence. So the neighbor re-roofing this week needs nothing and you, changing out a condenser, need a permit and a licensed technician's card number on the application. That asymmetry is real, it is checkable, and it is the single most common thing homeowners here get wrong.

The highest utility-gas penetration in our whole service area

One of the three ZIPs here runs eighty-three percent utility gas — the highest of any ZIP measured across this region — with the other two at seventy-nine and seventy-eight. Half a percent is on bottled gas. That is close to the opposite of the picture twenty miles north: there is essentially no propane conversation to have here, and almost nothing we quote is a straight electric-to-electric swap.

There is no census geography for this place at all

It is not an incorporated city and it is not a census-designated place, which means no place-level population, income or housing figure for it exists anywhere. Anyone quoting you an East Cobb statistic is quoting a different geography with this name attached. The nearest defensible figure is a census county division covering a much larger area than most people mean. We mention it because it is the kind of thing that should make you skeptical of a contractor's local-market pitch, including ours.

What we do in East Cobb

Everything we do is available across the service area. The ones below have a page of their own for this town.

Everything we do here

Installation

Repair

Maintenance

Indoor Air Quality

Questions about East Cobb

Who issues my permit — Marietta or the county?
The county, unless your parcel is genuinely inside the Marietta city limits, which a Marietta mailing address does not tell you. The county publishes a jurisdiction lookup for exactly this reason. We check the parcel before we book the install.
My neighbor re-roofed without a permit. Why do I need one to replace an air conditioner?
Because they are treated differently here. The county exempts residential standard-tab shingle replacement and does not exempt mechanical equipment replacement — the permit has to be issued before the work starts, and it is only issued against a state license card number. It is in our price and we pull it.
How long does it take you to get here?
Twenty-nine free-flow minutes, and it is surface roads rather than interstate, so this is one of the runs where real traffic differs most from the free-flow figure. We give you a window and we call before we come.

24/7 emergency service

Broken at 2am? That's the number.

(770) 555-0187

No heat under 40° · No cooling over 85° · Gas smell · Water on the floor · A breaker that keeps tripping

One number, day or night, holidays included. It rings a rotation of our own technicians, not an answering service in another state.