Amin Chandwani
2/5
less than 2 years old central heating system stopped heating. I searched for reliable and reasonable technician. Called about 8-10 different places and finally decided to schedule time with Mike based on stellar reviews. He quoted most reasonable diagnosis cost.
He was right on time, and within 15 minutes was able to detect the problem and fix it. He took his time to explain the issue and I could tell that he knows the AC & heating systems inside out.
He's very friendly and pleasant and you can just feel that he's an honest and upfront man. I highly recommend him and I would definitely call him for all AC & heating matters in future.
[Updated]: I am updating the review based on the further experience. In less than 2 weeks after the repairs, the heater stopped working. My tenant followed the steps Mike had told but no fix. I called him multiple times. He finally responded on Dec 18th and went for repairs the next day. He called after the trip that he had thought about the problem quite a bit and only thing he could figure out was that the pipe for the gas flow was too restricted. He claimed that he widened the restricted pipe with the screw driver and now that should fix the problem. He then asked me to pay $30 for the trip. I politely said that it should be free because the repair didn't work the first time and problem returned in less than 2 weeks. He sarcastically said, "oh well I guess anything to keep the customer happy" and literally hung up on me. I found it quite unprofessional but decided not to do anything and even leave my 5-star review as is.
The next day, the heater wasn't working again. I called Mike at least 5 times and left multiple messages. In one of the message, I asked very clearly that I wasn't asking him to check it out again but at least let me know if he could think of any other fix. He never responded!! That is not good service especially when you assured the customer at the time of taking the payment that you stand behind your work!
I found another repair person from the furnace manufacture's website (free plug: Felix's Heating and Cooling services, LLC). I called them on Dec 21st. On the day of repair, it took him literally 5 minutes to detect the "real" problem. One of the Flame roll out sensor was faulty. He by-passed sensor that day because he had to order the part from manufacturer and it was day before Christmas weekend, ordered the part from manufacturer (since it was under the warranty), went back to the property on Dec 27th and fixed the problem "permanently". And his total charge was about the same as Mike's!
I strongly resist writing bad reviews for business because I know how it could hurt them sometimes unjustly. But in that case, I had to bump off 3 starts; one star for not being able to find the problem in two trips despite claiming 26+ years of experience and two stars for not standing behind your work!