HVAC Repair Near the Smithfield Outlets
The neighborhoods within about a mile and a half of Outlet Center Drive and I-95 exit 95: 1970s and 1980s homes, town electric, and Piedmont gas.
Frost Fire Heating And Cooling repairs heat pumps, gas and electric furnaces and central AC in the homes around Carolina Premium Outlets and Outlet Center Drive in Smithfield. It is about 23 minutes (12 miles) from our Clayton base without traffic, and we have completed four service calls in this corridor since May 2025. Call (919) 230-4439; Sundays are the same price.
What we've fixed here
We define this corridor as roughly a 1.5-mile radius around Outlet Center Drive, the road behind Carolina Premium Outlets at I-95 exit 95. Our records show four completed service calls in that radius between May 2025 and January 2026, all inside Smithfield town limits. All four were repair and diagnostic visits. The county dates every one of those addresses to 1975 and lists each with a heat pump.
- January 2026, Pine Acres (Addition 2), 1975 home, heat pump. Found a reversing valve/defrost problem. A heat pump that can't switch or defrost properly ices up and pushes the house onto backup heat in cold weather.
- Across the four calls, the notes also record a no-heat complaint and a filter-drier replacement. The filter-drier is the small in-line part that catches moisture and debris in the refrigerant circuit, and it gets replaced whenever the system is opened for refrigerant work.
Two of the four calls came in January and two in May. Our older job records hold only short notes, so we're not filling in details we don't have. Job photos from this area aren't published yet.
The houses around the outlets
Johnston County parcel records show 992 homes within the corridor radius. Ninety-one percent are inside Smithfield limits, 8% in Smithfield's ETJ, and about 1% in or near Selma. They're older than the new subdivisions toward Clayton:
| Built | Homes |
|---|---|
| Before 1960 | 257 |
| 1960s–1970s | 210 |
| 1980s | 235, the busiest decade |
| 1990s–2000s | 253 |
| 2010s–2020s | 37 |
The median is 1981. The mix is varied: 760 single-family houses, 94 duplex/triplex parcels, 75 townhouses and 48 double-wides.
The heating split is unusual for Johnston County. The assessor lists 51% ducted forced air (a furnace) and only 39% heat pump, with 4% non-ducted forced air and 4% none listed. The higher furnace share fits with piped gas being available in town (see below). All four of our calls happened to be at heat pump homes, but a furnace call is just as likely here.
Town electric and Piedmont gas: the local difference
Electric. The Town of Smithfield runs its own electric system. Its Public Utilities Department serves customers inside town limits, as a member of NCEMPA (ElectriCities). If your power is out or your meter is in question, you call the town, not Duke. Any utility rebate program would also be the town's, not Duke's. We have not confirmed the provider for corridor addresses outside the town system, or for the outlet center itself.
Gas. Johnston County's economic development office says Piedmont Natural Gas laterals serve Smithfield and Selma. The Census estimates about 26% of Smithfield homes heat with utility gas, compared with 2% in Archer Lodge. A gas furnace here needs its own checks: flame sensor, igniter, venting and a carbon monoxide test. Our gas furnace and CO guide explains why we test for carbon monoxide on these.
Permits are next door
Smithfield doesn't run its own inspections. Johnston County Building Inspections does, and its office is in Smithfield at the Land Use Center, 309 E. Market St (919-989-5060). The town's zoning/land-use permit comes first, then the county mechanical permit. Outlet Center Drive runs to the Selma town limits. Selma also uses the county for permits, but its zoning goes through Selma.
The outlets and other businesses
This page is about the homes near the corridor. For stores and restaurants, we do commercial work too. See rooftop unit repair and commercial HVAC. We have no completed commercial jobs at the outlet center to report.
Services
Heat pump repair, gas and electric furnace repair, AC repair and replacements, the same price on weekends.
Questions from homes near the outlets
Who do I call about a power problem near the outlets?
If your home is inside Smithfield town limits, electricity comes from the Town of Smithfield Public Utilities, a municipal system, not Duke Energy. We have not confirmed the provider for addresses outside the town system.
Is natural gas available near the outlets?
Piedmont Natural Gas serves the towns of Smithfield and Selma, according to Johnston County's economic development office. About 26% of homes in Smithfield heat with utility gas (Census estimate). Whether your street has a gas main is something to check with Piedmont.
What have you fixed in this area?
Four completed calls since May 2025, all at addresses inside Smithfield town limits that county records date to 1975 and list with heat pumps. The notes record a no-heat complaint, a filter-drier replacement and, in January 2026 in Pine Acres Addition 2, a reversing valve/defrost problem.
I'm near the Selma line. Does that change the permit?
Johnston County Building Inspections issues the mechanical permit for both Smithfield and Selma. The zoning step goes through whichever town has jurisdiction over your parcel.
Nearby
Main city page: HVAC in Smithfield, NC. Also near the corridor: Selma, Pine Level and Four Oaks.
Heat pump or furnace trouble near the outlets?
About 23 minutes from our shop. One price, seven days a week.