Chud Air Conditioning Heating Duct Cleaning Co
About us
Chud Indoor Air is a family-owned and operated business, established in 1970 to provide a full range of HVAC services to local businesses and residents. Fully trained and professional, Chud employees go through certification and training programs to provide you with outstanding quality services. We are guided by our founder who instilled strong business principles as the foundation of Chud Company. We continue to shape the company around these core values and strive to serve all our customers in this manner.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Heating & AC Services. Duct Cleaning
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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We obtained a proposal to replace the existing furnace, and also to install return ductwork. Previously, the furnace had simply been pulling air from the unfinished basement to supply the house, with some open return vents from the first and second floors. We also requested that the proposal include installation of an air conditioning unit, which we previously did not have, since we already had the ductwork (except the return) in place.
The proposal we received from Chud was approximately $13,000. We tried to negotiate down from that, but with no success. We subsequently submitted a proposal from another contractor for the same work and comparable, if not superior, quality products, for just over $7,000. The other contractor's work was professional and our new system is operating well. It seems Chud was really trying to gouge us on the price, as it the quote was nearly double what we ended up paying. If you are going to solicit a proposal from Chud, I would recommend obtaining competing bids as well.
"We at the Chud Company are sorry to hear you went with another company. The proposal you had received was a good, better, best proposal. The price on the good was a little above what you paid to the contractor you hired. If you had came back to us we would've been happy to negotiate a better price to accomodate you in any way we can. We want your business and would do anything to earn that. We are known for superior service and quality workmanship. We are a NATE certified company with an A+ rating with the BBB. We have been in business for over 44 years. We must be doing something right. I'm sure you've heard the saying before "you get what you pay for" Good Luck in the future!"
1st bad news, was that the reserve tank must have a internal leak and that it would have to be replaced and the 2nd bad news was that the CO reading was 1116/ppm and that they would have to shut down my boiler or I would have to sign a release to free them on potential risk is they restarted the boiler.
I was floored, and scared, I thought my CO detector was suppose to alarm when CO went above 40. So they wrote up a estimate for replacing the 34 year old boiler 6,625 and an estimate to repair 1,350. I signed the release and then they left.
I went out and bought a CO detector with readings (which hasn't gone above 14) and I then proceeded to contact two more companies.
The one company pointed out where they took the CO reading, they drilled a hole in the flew and placed their probe inside. I don't know if this standard practice and yes I am replacing the boiler with a company that is more then 25% less, but this sounded to me like a scare tack to try and sell boiler/furnaces.
"[member name removed], You had an unsafe operating condition within your boiler. There was no record of maintenance on your boiler that was 23 years old. To check CO on an old boiler is a MUST. We do not want to leave your family in any danger as to which we had you sign a carbon monoxide waiver form to allow you to keep your boiler operational if you wanted to. That is not a scare tactic. It is a safety procedure to protect you and your family. We are sorry you took it that way but with annual preventive maintenances this issue could've been well avoided. Due to lack of maintenance that is why you had so many issues with your boiler system along with the water logged expantion tank. Good thing we took a CO reading and now you can rest easy without any worries."
Ultimately, I had the work done for $850 (with no service fee for the initial call). They almost laughed when I said that another company said they couldn't replace the pan without installing new coils.
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