It pains me to have to write a review like this, but here goes. This will be a longer review, so if you're just looking for a quick recommend or non-recommend, than it is a hard non-rec for me.
I'm a Marine. My salesman, Billy, that came to my house is a Marine. The owner of the company is a Marine. Supposedly, a bunch of Marines work for the company. I had shopped around for HVAC companies and knowingly spent upwards of $1500 and some change more by going with Semper Fi because I figured with a bunch of Marines and a company using the Marine Corps motto, these guys would have to be committed to service and stand behind their work, right? I wish.
Our problems started with Billy and clearly he didn't do his due diligence to make sure our unit could be installed with no problems. After we did start having problems, I reached out to him desperate for help. He said he was tied up on a job but that he would call me later and make it right, but I never heard from him again. He was quick to take my money, but avoided the hell out of me after he realized he screwed up.
We had a couple kids come out and do the install, which took just around nine hours to complete. It was about 110 degrees that day, but those kids were working in the attic and outside, so I won't complain too much other than to mention that our house was around 92 degrees inside the whole day.
The kids ran into some kind of problem and couldn't get the unit to work properly. They called their supervisor who then said we needed to call SRP to get more power because we have solar panels, even though we don't rely solely on solar and our old unit never had an issue with power. These kids left us to figure out the power situation even thought the unit still wasn't working properly and so we had to cram into my son's room with our own personal portable air conditioner. But not before we had to spend a couple hours on the phone with SRP, because lord knows they don't pick up for a while, to try to figure out the power situation to get our air working. Hours after being on the phone with SRP, though, it was indeed a Semper Fi issue.
I'm not going to go into every detail and problem we had without a properly functioning unit only because I don't want to leave a 10 page report, but we were left in the heat for eight whole days. Our unit would work on and off, but it wasn't consistent. On the eighth day, they finally sent an electrician to us and it turns out our unit was being regulated by an energy sentinel, which is weird because our old unit wasn't regulated by this sentinel so not sure if it was hooked up like this by their techs?
My biggest complaint is that I never heard from a customer service rep apologizing for going eight days in the hot summer largely without an AC unit. Not one person from Semper Fi's office reached out to us to at least say sorry. Every time we called the office, it seemed like an inconvenience for us to be calling and complaining about our hot house that we just dropped $13k+ on. When we asked for a portable AC unit to supplement ours, we were told that the house needed to be consistently 90 degrees and hotter and our 86 degree house wasn't enough. We were never a priority as evidenced by our eight days without a properly functioning unit. I even sent an email to the company stating that I was going to contact the Better Business Bureau as well as a lawyer for selling us a lemon, but still never heard anything from them.
These guys need to significantly improve their systems because they're broken in their current state. I will give a shout out to Terry, their service manager, and Jonathan as both of these guys busted their butts trying to get us taken care of and were very empathetic to our situation. But there was zero support from the office and I still have yet to hear from anybody regarding this issue. Seriously poor customer service and that is really unfortunate from a company using Semper Fi as their name. That name should mean something, especially from a bunch of Marines. It means something to me, which is why I paid more to work with Semper Fi in the first place.
***UPDATE***
I spoke with Rosie Marshall, the operations manager for the company. She was very apologetic, which she should be considering the treatment, and seems like she wants to improve the customer service process for the company. She also stated she would refund the amount that we overpaid by going with this company, but we'll see how it goes. I still will not recommend this company, though, based on my personal experience which still has me getting angry. No one should have to go through what we went through after spending as much money as we did. Still, I appreciate the effort and the promise to do better with other, so I increased their rating by one star.