Response from Diamond Quality Services
Dear member, No, we did not clean the duct work in your home for 100 dollars nor did we service the area where you reside in April 2013, of this year. *What the member purchased from our company and the service we performed for this member is noted below: In "October of 2012" the member purchased a $59 Comprehensive Furnace Tune Up + "Free Air Duct Inspection!" Customer Member Customer Address (Member Address Removed) (Member Address Removed). Na Customer Phone Na Customer Email Na Coupon Code(s) HVAC-465587-1 Quantity 1 Amount Paid $59.00 This member has not been factual in his review and should redirect his concerns to the appropriate company whom the member chose to have "clean" his ductwork. The company the member chose for the "cleaning" obviously did not know how or, did not care about doing the job correctly. The bait and switch $100 dollar duct cleaning advertisement that many have seen and that the member put forth in the members review should be the first RED FLAG WAVING, as you really do get what you pay for and in this case it could not be more clear. Our background pertaining to Air Duct System Cleaning: Diamond Quality Services uses professional equipment for both the residential-light commercial and industrial air duct system cleaning, combined with over 25 years of collective experience in the indoor air quality industry. Also see http://www.diamondqualityservice.com/air-duct-cleaning.php We have been in the indoor air quality and energy efficiency industry since 1993 and hold a Texas Air Conditioning Contractors License (TACLB28267C) and an EPA Refrigeration Certificate. Professional background includes Senior Vice President of Operations at Rotobrush International from 1993 to 2008. Scott Peterson, while at Rotobrush, designed the Rotobrush aiR+ Air Duct Cleaning System and has 3 patents on the system. He developed the training system for Rotobrush International for air conditioning contractors as well as entrepreneurs and others for duct cleaning systems. Also see http://www.diamondqualityservice.com/about-us.php#history Our company is appropriately licensed. Furthermore the owners of Diamond Quality Services have personally trained thousands of contractors in various training programs throughout the country over the last decade. Special note: When it comes to air duct cleaning there are entirely too many blanket recommendations presented to consumers. Over time this is creating many false comforts regarding indoor air quality. Air duct cleaning, in and of itself, will not necessarily improve the quality of air you breathe in your indoor environment. There are many logical and viable reasons why this is so. Most common in todays market, the need for air duct cleaning is based upon how a consumer feels about the air they breathe in their home, versus the actual quality of the same air circulating through the ductwork. The biggest reason appears to be marketing and "many consumers are sold a bill of goods" rather than a real service. A real service based upon good information specific to the existing air conditioning system condition, and the quality of life desired from the service by the consumer. For instance, (epa.gov) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states air duct cleaning has never been shown to prevent health problems. This is not to say the EPA approves or does not approve whether the service could be of great value to a consumer! The EPA and, the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) recommend an internal inspection of the air ducting, furnace, cooling coils and other air movement components. This inspection is absolutely necessary to determine if air duct cleaning is even needed, or to the other extreme of a ducting replacement due to microbial growth/contamination. We find that greater than half our air duct cleaning inspections require no air duct cleaning needed whatsoever. Whether air duct cleaning is required more often than not depends on a particular environment specific to the consumers wants/needs, and how the indoor environment has or is maintained inside the livable space of the home or office. In addition, we often find air duct cleaning services are desirable due to pre-existing conditions such as disconnected, unsealed or leaky ductwork which have rippled to infiltration issues. Other situations can be far worse such as poor HVAC and ductwork installation leading to extensive microbial contamination as well as consumers who may suffer from an unusual or highly susceptible issue, arising from allergies and asthma difficulty. There are many common household cleaning chores or annual maintenance services that with our busy lives tend to often go unnoticed. However, these chores or maintenance services play a much larger role in reaching an overall solution and, when properly serviced may completely alleviate the feeling of need for an air duct cleaning. Simply stated, we find air duct cleaning is by far not the do all-end all of an indoor air quality improvement solution. At Diamond Quality Services our foremost mission is Service Beyond Expectation! To reach this goal for every customer we serve, the mission becomes our foremost solution. With that said we find it absolutely necessary to inspect every accessible area available, obtain pictures for documentation and formulate a solution with each customer. Finally, we make our recommendation to fit the specific want and need for each environment we serve. *Unfortunately for this member, he did not hire our company for the air duct cleaning. The tune up and "inspection" is the one and only time we were ever at this members home. In closing, the overall quality of indoor air is affected through a variety of collateral offsets, and not just the ductwork, or lungs, of the indoor living environment. Prior to any work being done in your home or office, with a Diamond Quality Service inspection you have absolute discovery and a formulated solution at your fingertips, before, you employ any of your good hard-earned resources to pay for a service that you may or may not need. Thank you for the opportunity to serve, Diamond Quality Services - Customer care