Heating and air conditioning system replacements

In my opinion, the bottom line on replacing your heating and air conditioning system is that you, as the average homeowner, don’t have the experience to know whether or not the contractor you’ve hired will do the job. A perfect example of this fact is that while I am highly mechanically inclined—I took three years of auto classes in high school, have rebuilt and installed many engines, and do most of the work on my own vehicles—I am powerless when it comes to the broadcast. I don’t have the tools or knowledge to repair my transmission so I hired a phone book company to do the repair and found myself in the position of having it done ASAP.

I paid $2,250 for the repair and to have a transmission cooler installed. A few days after the vehicle got home, the transmission failed again. I called the company and they came all the way to Sacramento to get it. The next day I called the transmission company and spoke to the owner, who said that this time he was going to do the work himself. Later that day, he called me to say that the boy who had done the job didn’t do the job he specified and he wanted to redo the repair, so my truck is in the shop and I’m renting a car. .

This same scenario plays out over and over again in the heating and cooling industry, homeowners are forced to trust that the contractor not only knows what they are doing, but that their employees are doing the job as directed. specified and are using the best facility. known techniques. That they have chosen and sold the best equipment to suit their needs, not just the cheapest product they could get that gives them the highest profit margins and not the fastest possible installation techniques that require the least amount of effort.

Unfortunately for homeowners, much of the work that is done in your home is done in the basement or attic areas or in areas where the homeowner can’t see the work being done and, in fact, many times the homeowner cannot see it. self is not interested in making sure the contractor is doing the job correctly, and in most cases the homeowner is also not qualified to recognize if the installation is being done correctly.

This is the main reason many homeowners are so skeptical about who they are hiring. No one wants to get burned, taken advantage of, or cheated out of a job. You want to feel good about your purchase, you want to be able to trust your new system without a doubt, and you want to make sure you get the best possible system at the best possible price, I can say that for sure. I’m sure you want to know that if the system fails, your contractor will immediately come to your home within reason and take care of the problem at no cost to you for as long as possible.

Unfortunately for you, as a homeowner, when you ask the contractor for a list of references, you will receive a list of clients the contractor wants you to see. I highly doubt the contractor will ever give you an unedited list of their clients over the past few years that you can randomly go through and call or write and ask the client how well they liked their installation. No, your contractor will put their best foot forward and try to eliminate the possibility of you finding out any negative information about them. It makes sense that they would from the standpoint of trying to get your business. It will be difficult to find the right contractor and you may find it too much to do in-depth research on both the product and the contractor.

This is where homeowners who get burned by contractors often fail and make a bad decision, not because they usually make bad decisions, but because they don’t know how to locate a quality contractor that does what it says it’s going to do, has the training. and he knows how to do the job correctly and does not intend to take the owner of the house to the bank. Chances are if your contractor does a lot of advertising in the phone book, runs really big ads in newspapers, runs big mailing campaigns, does telemarketing, or just has a big advertising presence in your area, that there could be at except some people. who have a significant problem with the work, labor, or product sold to them by this contractor.

Most heating and cooling contractors follow the customer buy model, in that they don’t focus so much on satisfying their existing customer base to the point that the customer diligently advertises by word of mouth to they. They don’t make sure they do all their work with quality and diligence, but they run huge amounts of marketing and advertising to brand their name in their area to get recognized and build their name so that when you need one you will have heard their name enough to remember them. , find them and call them to get a quote. This is a crucial point in your choice and a major step many people have taken in the wrong direction leading to a decision to buy from a company they really know nothing about. That’s where they get into trouble. My next article titled Heating and Air Conditioning Decisions will help you make an informed decision.