My tenants have a problem with their heating system. I called Comfort Now since it was recommended to me by someone. I already have an idea why I cant get my old radiators to heat up (no water). So I started to bleed the radiator valves, the day before and was getting a lot of air however still cold radiators. So I figure I call the "expert" out and they can fix the problem easily. I called them, however they can not come out the same day because I'm not a "member" and was proceeded with a sales pitch to become a member. I politely declined. For them just to come out is $79, I was like fine since they are the expert and I'm paying for their expertise.
I got a call around 2:00pm the next day saying the service guy is on his way, I told the lady "Ok i'm not at the property at the moment and will be there in 20mins, she said "fine". I got to property at 2:20pm and waited till 3pm to call them back, the lady now said he is an hour away! I waited another hour in my car for him. When he finally shows up I took him to the boiler room and told him the situation, he look at the system and told me the setup is really old and needs all kinds of updates since there's no shutoff valve to the return and that there is no way to bleed the air out from the system.(I thinking that's going to cost me a lot of money, there must be an alternative.) While he was taking some pictures and text it to someone more knowlegdgeable (I assume it's Bob), I told him we can bleed the air out from the radiators upstairs, so I ask him if he has a radiator valve key. He told me no, and ask me if i have one. I said "yes". We proceeded upstairs and I started to bleed the air out again starting from the back room. This time I can feel a lot more air coming out, more than last time and finally i was able to get some water out sporadically and the radiator was getting warmer! While i was bleeding the second radiator and he standing there down the hall, I ask him " Am I goin to be charge more than the diagnostic." He told me "NO, NO! you are not going to get charge more than the diagnostic fee!" I just dont want him to hang around watch me bleed air out of radiators and charge me for it since i figure it might be hourly.
He ask me for the key to bleed the radiator next to the bathroom, which is down the hallway, so i gave it to him. Then, he proceeded to the boiler room to look at something, while i kept bleeding different radiators. He came upstair again and wasnt sure why the water arent coming out the other radiators so he gave bob a call, they talk for a bit and come up with the conclusion that my pressure valve is bad or something like that and need to replace to get more pressure since the boiler system is reading around 10psi and it should be around 15-20psi. I ask him how much that is going to cost, he told me they will call me for estimate and then he bascally packed up and left while I continue to bleed air out of the radiators from room to room. That was the solution and I was still left with some radiators with out heat.
I was relunctant about evan paying for the diagontic charge because one he made me wake for an extra 1hr and half and then I have to give him a solution on how to bleed air out of the radiator in which i did all the work. But since I agreed I paid, no complaint.
Now, in my mind I am only charged $79 fee, but this morning I got an alert saying I was charged $120 from Comfort Now. I was confused so I called them back the lady did some digging "oh the charge is for diagnostic and bleeding the air out of radiators." I was like what?! "But I did the work!" to be fair he did ask me for the key and open up ONE radiator valve for couple minutes. But I was already assure by him that there wont be extra charges! I told the lady this and she said she will find the reasoning.
She calls me back 5mins later saying she talked to Bob and the other guy and said the charges stands. I was fustrated and ask if there's someone else that I can talk to because I think it's wrong and miss leading to tell me i'm not going to charge more than the diagnostic fee and turn around charge me for bleeding air out of the radiators. If he had told me there will be extra charges for bleeding air out of the radiators I would have said "No thanks! I can do that myself."
So she told me she will talk to bob and have him call me. Instead, she called back and said, "Bob the and other guy feels the charged are correct, he was there 1hr and 20mins, however we can refund you the $41 dollars but we no long will provide anymore service to you" I said "Fine just refund me the money, thank you."
So I was left with two choices of either pay or "dont call us again" attitude. To what other reviewer said; attentive, honest, knowledgeable and responsive. I saw none of that! If they dont want me as a customer they should refund me the entire $120 and not just $41. Not in any point of time was I ever rude to them. I just want it to be fair. read more