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Missed Opportunities

More often than not when visiting contractors these days the discussion turns to the current state of the economy. The downturn has affected all of us, as the American consumer is spending less and saving more.

Since fewer people are upgrading their HVAC equipment we seem to be left with fewer opportunities, or maybe we aren't; All too often as things started tightening up the low bidder would get the jobs, many times in order to do these jobs corners were cut and quality went out the window, this is where the opportunities lie.

Are your technicians looking for the substandard installs the small things such as, leaky duct work, over length flex, miswired controls, undersized piping, etc?

I recently was out with two customers to look at problem installations and was amazed at the number of glaring problems, but worse than that was the fact that in each case the homeowner reported having had several contractors in before hand and they were unable to diagnose the problems. In each case the problems were very obvious but nobody had picked up on them, from the boiler supply sensor on the outside of the pipe insulation to the two zone dampers on the same terminal but with two separate thermostats.

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