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                                  United States

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

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                                    FORM 8-K

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                CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  March 5, 2003

                         ENCOMPASS SERVICES CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                  Texas              1-13565            76-0535259
             (State or Other       (Commission       (I.R.S. Employer
              Jurisdiction        File Number)     Identification No.)
            of Incorporation)

      3 Greenway Plaza, Suite 2000
             Houston, Texas                               77046
     (Address of principal executive                   (Zip Code)
                offices)

       Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (713) 860-0100

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                    INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT

Item 7.  Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits.

     (c) Exhibits.

     The following exhibits are furnished under Item 9 of this Current Report on
Form 8-K and shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the
Securities Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), nor shall they be
deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act").

         Exhibit No.       Exhibit
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             99.1          Press Release of Encompass Services
                           Corporation, dated March 6, 2003,
                           announcing filing of Joint Plan of
                           Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
                           with the United States Bankruptcy Court for
                           the Southern District of Texas.

             99.2          Joint Plan of Reorganization of Encompass
                           Services Corporation and its Affiliated
                           Debtors Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy
                           Code, as filed with the United States
                           Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
                           of Texas on March 5, 2003.

             99.3          Encompass Services Corporation and its
                           Affiliated Debtors' Joint Disclosure
                           Statement Pursuant to Section 1125 of the
                           Bankruptcy Code, as filed with the United
                           States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
                           District of Texas on March 5, 2003.

Item 9.  Regulation FD Disclosure.

     In accordance with General Instruction B.2. of Form 8-K, the following
information shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange
Act, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the
Securities Act.

     Encompass Services Corporation (the "Company") filed a press release on
March 6, 2003 announcing the March 5, 2003 filing of its Joint Plan of
Reorganization and its Joint Disclosure Statement. The press release notes that
the Joint Plan of Reorganization contemplates that the Company's Residential
Services group will be reorganized as a new entity supported by an investment
from Wellspring Capital Management and that the Company has completed the sale
of substantially all of the Company's assets outside of


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the Residential Services group during the pendency of the Company's bankruptcy
case. A copy of the Press Release is annexed hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

     Also annexed hereto as Exhibits 99.2 and 99.3, respectively, are copies of
the Joint Plan of Reorganization and the Joint Disclosure Statement. Both of the
Joint Plan of Reorganization and the Joint Disclosure Statement were filed by
the Company with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of
Texas on March 5, 2003. The Joint Disclosure Statement was filed without
including certain information that will be required before the Company and its
affiliated debtors are able to solicit their creditors for the acceptance of the
Joint Plan of Reorganization. Moreover, the Joint Plan of Reorganization and the
Joint Disclosure Statement remain subject to review and comment thereon by,
among others, the bankruptcy court overseeing the Company's and its affiliated
debtors' chapter 11 cases, the official committee of unsecured creditors
appointed in the Company's and its affiliated debtors' chapter 11 cases, the
Company's and its affiliated debtors' senior lenders, the Company's and its
affiliated debtors' debtor-in-possession lenders and Wellspring Capital
Management (as the proposed investor in the Company's Residential Services
group).


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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                     ENCOMPASS SERVICES CORPORATION



                                     By:    /s/ Gray H. Muzzy
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                                            Gray H. Muzzy
                                            Senior Vice President,
                                            General Counsel and Secretary

Date:  March 7, 2003


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                                  Exhibit Index

         Exhibit No.        Exhibit
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             99.1           Press Release of Encompass Services Corporation,
                            dated March 6, 2003, announcing filing of Joint
                            Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
                            with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
                            Southern District of Texas.

             99.2           Joint Plan of Reorganization of Encompass Services
                            Corporation and its Affiliated Debtors Under
                            Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, as filed
                            with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
                            Southern District of Texas on March 5, 2003.

             99.3           Encompass Services Corporation and its Affiliated
                            Debtors' Joint Disclosure Statement Pursuant to
                            Section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code, as filed with
                            the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
                            District of Texas on March 5, 2003.

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