When building a new home or doing a comprehensive remodel of your existing home, you should keep in mind from the start that your house is a functional, engineered system, not just a collection of rooms that need to look nice on the inside. It’s why you should take care when choosing a heating and air conditioning contractor, and make sure to involve the company early in the process.
Otherwise, you may find that you’ll have to stop work and reconfigure your plans or have to spend time, effort, energy and a whole lot of extra money to fix what your HVAC expert could have caught early on.
However, all experts aren’t cut from the same cloth. Here are a few tips you should consider when choosing a heating and air conditioning contractor before you start your work:
■Ask your neighbors and friends. Good word-of-mouth referrals from people you trust will tell you a lot about the companies you are looking at. Once you start narrowing your options down, don’t hesitate to call the companies’ references.
■Be ready for the companies to do home evaluations and look to see how comprehensive the evaluations are when comparing their written estimates.
■Once you do select a contractor, make sure they are involved as early in the construction process as possible. Also, get a signed proposal. It will detail the scope and the costs of the work before it begins.
Choosing a heating and air conditioning contractor when you remodel or build a new house doesn’t have to be a hassle. Don’t hesitate to read up on what work you might need and how it will be done, and keep asking questions.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
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