Avoid this place at all costs! I'll admit, I was optimistic when I called in and the dispatcher told me they'd be able to send someone out to me the same day even though my issue wasn't an emergency. That's where the good experience ended, however.
We were fairly certain we knew what the issue was (I used to work for an HVAC company -- not as a technician, obviously), so we were able to have a friend from out of the area diagnose the issue, we just needed someone local to fix it. Thankfully we sort of knew what to expect and ask for or we'd have ended up getting totally ripped off by our very rude technician, Mark
Mark arrived, not wearing a mask or seeming to have any interest in social distancing. I escorted him down to our basement to look at our heater. He barely touched the unit. He spent 10 seconds, if that, peeking into it from a few feet away, and then told us that we needed to replace our entire furnace because it was so old they wouldn't be able to read the model number or know what parts to order. Spoiler alert, it's old, but not that old, and we, with our untrained eyes, could read the model number.
When we told him we'd had someone look at it previously and they knew what part we needed, he remarked, Well, you should probably buy that part from him then.
When we pushed back about replacing the entire unit his response was that he could replace the part we mentioned, but that our unit was so old it was probably emitting carbon monoxide and we didn't even know it and there's no way it was safe. He said, if we wanted to pay him he'd replace the part, but then he'd probably have to condemn our unit and turn off gas to your whole old house.
I get it, our furnace is old, but even if it did need to be completely replaced, there would have been better ways to explain it.
Anyways, he disappeared to his truck and came back telling us that it would be $800 to replace the part that we needed. (We'd previously been told to expect around $400).
We let him know that we planned to get another opinion (even if the price had been more reasonable, we wouldn't have wanted to give a company that employs someone so rude, that much money).
The whole interaction was less than 5 minutes. 10 seconds of him barely looking at our unit, and 4 minutes and 50 seconds of him negging us, and apparently, for ACS, that's enough to charge a diagnostic fee. I don't know if he could tell we were upset, or if he does it for everyone, but he did knock $25 off the normally $100 fee.
The good news is, we were able to find another company with kind technicians who spent a good deal of time looking at our unit, explained everything, and agreed that starting with the part we had in mind was the best first step. No condemning of our unit necessary. Oh, and the cost? $425.