Best Leak Detection in Austin TX

Yesterday I was looking at my electric bill and I noticed for the past 10 days, my daily usage was around 20 bucks. Can you say ouch. When my heat pump runs, the temp at the vent is never more that 75-80 degrees and takes hours to get the house temp up just a few degrees. So in my quest to lower my electric bills, I read that usually the cause is a clogged coil inside the air handler and is SIMPLE to clean. So I went to Lowe's and picked up 4 cans of foaming coil cleaner. Later on, when I got most of the covers off, I could see half of the coils were covered with a thick black soot which means they have never been cleaned. There is a metal cover in the shape of a pie in the middle of the coils with 4 screws. When I removed the screws, the cover still wouldn't come off. I was doing everything to get this cover off until I started to hear the hiss of doom. I looked closer to the source of the hiss and where the cover was stuck. Whoever installed this unit fox service co soldered the cover to one of the coolant lines. To me it looks as if it was done so when the homeowner goes to clean the coils and they can't get the cover off, they call the people at Fox because after all, their stickers are all over the unit.

Thanks to the shady practices of this company, I am out at least $3000 to replace the whole system.  I will NOT be calling Fox to have the system replaced.

When I initially meant this father and son team, I was so excited. They were friendly, and seemed professional and responsive. I hired them to do several jobs in a rental unit. From the beginning of work there began to be many glitches in our agreements and in the quality of the jobs. One included replace the plumbing in a shower tub combo and I noticed immediately that they had chipped the enamel of the iron tub while doing the job. I had to haggle with them to get them to refinish the tub to cover the chip. I started noticing that the quality of work was not the best and had to repeatedly ask for things that should have been part of the work such as a faulty tub spout that they wanted me to have to go and replace, even though they bought the part new from Home Depot. Then, white putting in a new door and frame on an outside storage room, they nicked a wire in the wall causing an entire circuit of lights and plugs to stop working. They refused to repair the issue and I ended up having to spend several hundred dollars with an electrician to get it fixed. I explained all of this to both the father and son, including pictures of the damaged wire, and they made it very clear that they would have nothing to do with it. The cost ended up not being worth going to small claims court, but I considered it given the bad workmanship. I recommend moving on and finding someone who has references. I learned my lesson.

$99 fee to come out.  Otherwise they got back to me within a day on A quote to replace and gave me several options. They do work on Sunday

Danny showed up early, fixed one of my problems far quicker than I could have imagined, and took an on entire secondary project that we originally only talked about planning for and finished it the same day.  Awesome to have a handyman that knew what he was doing be so motivated to just get it all done so quickly.  If you need something done right and quickly call A List Handyman!

Nathan came out today, replaced a piece on our tub faucet. Explained the reason why it was breaking and fixed it right up. These guys are knowledgable, quick, and affordable. Plus, they are nice guys.

Quoted $800 to replace a dryer receptacle.  The report indicated the problem was loose wiring.  I asked if the electrician had actually seen this and he said he had opened up the socket.  When the socket was later replaced, the paint seal from the decorator had not been broken and the report about the wiring being 'backstabbed' was incorrect, proving the electrician had not even looked at the faulty socket and had also lied to me.

They quoted $8,000 in other non-essential work as part of their 'inspection'.

At the end of a hot day in August 2013, my AC stopped blowing cold and by 7PM it was 80 degrees in the house.  I called the number on my AC unit from when it was installed, and Jon Wayne Heating and Air Conditioning answered, as they had purchased the number when the other company went out of business.  They could not come that night but could send a technician to perform an 'evaluation' between 8AM and Noon the next day for $29.  I agreed.
The next morning, the AC unit was mysteriously working again, and the house was back at 72 degrees, but I still wanted the evaluation.
The Jon Wayne AC tech showed about 12:20PM.  I was anxious, as I had a meeting scheduled in Austin at 3PM, and needed to leave town by 1:15-1:30 at the latest.  
He spent 50 minutes in the evaluation, then showed me that my AC unit was very clogged inside, and used a geiger-counter kind of mechanism with lights to say I had an area leaking freon, so the real need was to replace the entire coil.  He said he needed to go out to his truck and arrange an estimate for me.  I let him know I needed to leave, soon.
While he was estimating, I called my realtor, as I planned to put my house on the market the following month.  The realtor said if the coil replacement estimate was more than $900, to call his source, and he gave me an alternate AC contact.  I also looked online for coil replacement costs, and the consensus was that depending on the size of the unit, it can run $1000 to $2200.  
It was 1:15PM and the Jon Wayne tech had not come in, yet, so I went out to him.  His estmate was for $4225!  As this was more than twice the highest I had seen in my research, I paid the $29 and sent him on his way.  He did offer a simple 'air movement' service for $1260, before he left.  
I called the realtor-referred AC person, and he BURST OUT LAUGHING at the quote for coil replacement from Jon Wayne Heating and AC.  He sent a tech out, who also evaluated and quoted me $430 to remove the unit and completely clean it out and re-install it, and said since I am selling, that should be fine.  If I wanted to replace the coil, the total, including cleaning, would be $860.
I scheduled the cleaning and they arrived on time and the unit is working perfectly.
BEWARE Jon Wayne Heating and Air Conditioning having you at their mercy on a hot day when your AC is out!