The Rutty & Morris Air Conditioning team

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    “Chad and I are longtime friends,” Morris said.  “Growing up, we went to the same schools and threw our graduation hats up in the air together during our high school graduation ceremony.”

Morris says they expanded to their Channelview location at 16803 East Freeway a year ago.

  “In the beginning, it was just me and Chad,” he said.  “Today, we have more than 20 people who work with us.

“We wanted to branch out to the Channelview/Baytown area and tap into the Houston market.  The Houston area represents the largest market for air conditioning and refrigeration in the United States and we wanted to be apart of it.”

Toya Richard, office manager, works mainly at the Nederland branch but she travels to the Channelview location often. 

Trevor Romero is the installer and Jeff Melancon is the branch manager.  Rachael Crueder handles outside sales and the marketing.

“Every year, I’ll cook for all the employees at our shop,” Morris said.  “We used to do our Christmas dinner at a restaurant and then I decided to make gumbo for everyone.”

Morris says the folks at the company also get together to have a safety meeting every Tuesday.

On the side, Morris and Rutty are avid hunters and fishermen and like going to a camp in the Toledo Bend area.

“Chad and I recently got back from the Hill Country,” he said.  “We enjoyed traveling out to the Edwards Plateau.

“Our future goal for the company is to open up five more satellite branches around the Greater Houston area.  If we stay on track with it, we hope to accomplish this by 2015.”

Rutty & Morris Air Conditioning & Plumbing provides cooling, heating, plumbing and refrigeration installation and repair services in the residential, commercial, industrial and marine markets.    –ab