There was three. But only one called back
First time air conditioning people here. My girlfriend told me after 14 years in the same house, this year was too much. We had to get an air conditioner or move to Norway.
Since my Norwegian is rough, I told her I would be in charge of getting bids.
Easy right?
First, a call to each of the "big box" hardware stores. Not so much luck there. They farm out all their work, which is fine overall but our gentleman ended up offering a system that only later after talking to Curtis, would not have worked.
Who knows what the train wreck would have entailed? Extra costs? You bet. Extra time, of course. Extra pain. Of course.
I then decided to do the Yelp and track down an air con company that was smaller.
I tried the next couple that called back and set up an appointment.
Second company told us that the heater system we had in the basement was "fine" and that they air con would be fine there. Only we did not want it down there since the air that goes into the air conditioner would come from the crawl space under our house. Sure there are filters. But we wanted another way.
And once again, after talking to Curtis, we realized we would have had major problems with the plan from the second air con company because they gave us zero idea that they would have had to cut into walls and ceilings to get to the first floor with a system they said should go to the attic.
That would have been another train wreck to say the least.
After calling three more, only Curtis called back quickly, one of the others called back a week later. Too late suckers. We found Curtis and quickly realized he was the equivalent of finding a four leaf clover.
Let's talk about Curtis, very smart, dependable returned our calls quickly and gave us so much time pre estimate that we felt guilty. And he's nice as heck.
Out of all the air con people, only Curtis listened to exactly what we wanted. He kept our needs in mind and instead of coming up with a generic air con solution, he came up with an out of the box solution that we are ecstatic with.
He introduced us to a mini split air conditioning system, (Look it up. Its amazing and great for older homes) We attached one to our downstairs living room and then here is the kicker. Rather then simply adding two to each bedroom upstairs, he thought way outside the air con box and told us we could get a ducted mini split that would fit nicely in our attic.
And the best part is that all the units do not use any air from outside. All air is recirculated from within our home.
We could not have been more pleased with his service and professionalism and highly recommend him to all our friends that are thinking that this global warming thing is too warm for their tastes and that it's time to hire someone for air conditioning services.
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