C&L Services Heating & Air Conditioning
About us
C&L Services is a family owned and operated heating and air business that has been proudly serving upstate South Carolina since 1999! We are Anderson's only Independent HVAC contractor to offer you both Trane and Lennox premium quality products. At C&L Services, our team is dedicated to providing it's customers with professional installation and maintenance of ALL heating & cooling systems. We specialize in the installation, repair and maintenance of air conditioning, heating, air cleaners, air purifiers, and humidifiers for residential homes and light commercial projects. We are committed to not only meeting our customer’s needs, but raising their expectations by providing a level of service unmatched by any other contractor in our area. We do all of this while providing low, competitive pricing, with a friendly smile. Call C&L Services 24hrs/7days for fast, friendly, reliable service! 100% Financing Available. HOME OF THE $50 SERVICE CALL! 864-964-0565
Business highlights
Services we offer
Air Cleaners, Air Conditioning, Ductwork, Furnace, Gas Pack, HVAC, Heat Pumps, Heating, Installation, Maintenance, Package Systems, Repair, Split System, Thermostat, Water Heaters
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Free Estimates
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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"I am sorry if you never received a call back [Member name removed], but I think you are mistaken, because I am the owner and after being in business for going on 16 years we have NEVER done duct cleaning. We have NEVER even owned a duct cleaning machine. We do however give customers a few names and phone numbers of local businesses that do indeed do duct cleaning when we are asked about it. I see and review every single thing that goes on in my business and am readily available at all times as I work 5 days a week here at my office. I wished you would have called and asked to speak to me or either came by as we routinely have walk in customers on a daily basis and I would have been able to address you concerns, instead you chose to go on the internet and bash my business. How would you like it if I were to come to your place of work and downgrade you to your boss or coworkers, without ever speaking to you directly beforehand? We pride ourselves on always maintaining a superior customer satisfaction rating and I am sorry to hear that you were not happy. If you ever need to contact me in the future ,my office is just a phone call away. Thanks"
A few days later the unit with capacitor quit working, called them again, this time it was a fan motor that was bad, so they replaced it (for another $300). They left equipment attached to this unit and called back and made up an excuse that they needed to come back to house to get serial number off of fan motor.
Original unit was also blowing warm a few days later so, not trusting Cand L we used Angie's List to choose an alternate provider to come out and perform leak test. Evaporator coil was completely eroded and competing co made a comment as to why Cand L would put 6 pounds of freon into a unit without stressing the need for a leak test. I called Cand L and was told "yes, we usually wont put more than 3 lbs in without stressing the need for a leak test". The technician most certainly did not identify a leak, he just pushed freon into a system that was completely eroded. In addition they never provided any proof or gauges to determine if in fact they put 6 lbs or 1 lbs of freon into the system. It was based solely on the technician's estimate.
We called the original Cand L tech a couple times and asked for him by the name he gave us when he arrived, and he acted like it was not his name.
Bottom line is, we spent $1000 with Cand L for them to put freon into a system that had a massive hole in it. The amount of freon they added should have prpmpted them to look at it closer rather than taking our $$.
We ended up replacing the entire system ( after getting proposals from 6 other companies other than Cand L ) with a system from Stiles who did a fantastic job.
Cand L offers the $50 service call fee but in my opinion, they will more than make up for that lower service call fee in the price of their other services. EVERY other vendor I called did not upcharge their cost of freon for weekend calls.
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"First off, of course we charge overtime rates for weekend calls we have to pay OT to our employees, and we don't upcharge EVERYTHING. Our service call remains $50 regardless of what day it is (feel free to compare the going rate on a service call which is anywhere between $85-$120). Next, 90% of the companies in town charge over $80 per lb for Freon on a normal workday, where we only charge $50. After identifying how low the Freon charge on your unit was you WERE offered a leak search but you DECLINED IT saying you just wanted to add Freon to it at this time (we always offer leak searches and write it on all invoices whether or not it was offered and or declined) and you signed the invoice saying you declined it so we simply done what you asked us to do knowing fully what the prices were BEFORE we did any work. We also always weigh in the Freon so we know exactly how much was used, which is more than I can say for a lot of other companies in town. By us weighing it in, we never short our self or the customer because with scales there is no gray area. The unit needing the fan capacitor on it was not running, once we replaced the fan capacitor it came right on and was running fine. Although the fan motor was pulling a higher than normal amp draw, you were notified of this and told that you may have to replace the fan motor at some point due to possible overheating and lockout caused by the high amp draw. You said we will just "wait and see" how it goes and that was that. We never try to sell anyone any part that is not currently bad, thus we replaced only the capacitor at this time. One last thing, we keep files on EVERY customer that we have and have a copy of ALL invoices associated with that customer as well as notes any time someone calls back in with a problem and in looking at your file I see NOTHING but 2 invoices where we came out to put in Freon and one for a new fan motor. No notes or addendums where you called in ,not even once, about having issues with work that we done at your home. Were sorry to hear that you weren't satisfied with what we done but if you will check the invoices that YOU signed you will clearly see that you were made aware of your big Freon leak and also offered a leak search but declined, and you will also see that you were told about the fan motor pulling a higher than normal amp draw and not running within specifications. All you had to do was call our office and speak with the owner and i'm sure we could have cleared up all your concerns. Instead you say you "tried calling the technician" instead. I will be happy to email or fax you both copies of the SIGNED invoices where you were made fully aware of everything going on with your systems. I don't see how we could be at fault in any way after YOU chose to just have the Freon filled in your unit rather than have us do a full leak search while we were at your home. You were offered it and you declined. We work for the customer and we give advice and opinions on what should be done but in the end we can only do what the customer wants done."
The next day the repairman showed up and was very prompt, friendly, and professional. He told me the work he was going to do and wanted me to show him any issues I knew of. The service took about 2 hours and before he did anything I would be charged for, he let me know how much it would cost. My A/C units needed freon about 5lbs of it and that stuff is not cheap! However, this is of no fault of Cand L Services as I looked around for similar prices of freon and the price was about the same everywhere.
They had a great deal on yearly maintenance, which I signed up for and they will return in the fall/winter to do a check on the heating system. Be sure to check their websites for any specials they are running as they have some good coupons that help out here and there for services they provide.
"Member - Thank you so much for your kind words. Ryan is an exceptional service technician, as you now know. We are very lucky to have him as part of our team here at C&L Services HVAC! We hope you enjoy your Summer... Say Cool!"
"Member, Thank you for your wonderful review! We are happy that your system is up and running great! Have a Super Summer... and Stay Cool!"
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