G&S mechanical update: Scott Meenen has build a grocery store near Reston Virginia. The equipment on this project is about 100 times more complex and involved than your residention heat pump, which means that I will be able to do 100 times a better job that somone who cannot repair any part of this system.
The price of Gasoline is now over $3.50
a gallon and the price of Diesel Fuel is over $4.00 in many locations.
If you call us out we need to get paid for traven and hope to acomplish
a repair. Please avoid asking us to "come take a look" at something. This
implies that we will not be the ones geting paid for the job.
Feel free to call me anytime I will gladly answer your questions. After 1 year of waiting I finally have my work truck returned with a new engine. It would have been taken care of sooner if other potential customers (You wouldn't do that) were more interested in contractor competence than the quality of the paint job on their work truck or the size of their ad in the phone book. I have 3 vehicles that makes 1 up 2 down. Please hire us instead of the company with the fancy add in the phone book and let me fix my other 2 vehicles.
This is Spring Startup Season this is the time to do routine maintenance. Please let us fix your equipment now by doing maintnance ratrher that waiting until the first hot day or week to call us.
Let's get something straight about pricing: The average price charged by our competition for a new system is $4,000 to 8,000 with half of that being pure profit. If you are willing to spend that kind of money then we are willing to drop everything to change your system in the worst weather imaginable and work through the night to do it. So will any other contractor for the right number of thousands of dollars in profit. Most larger contractors don't even want to talk to you unless you are willing to sign a contract to put several thousand in their pocket, why shouldn't we get that work?
If you want good service you will have to pay for it, if you want great service it will cost you a bit more but you can still have rotten service with a big price tag.
Scott
Whether you heat with natural gas, oil, heat pump (with electric, oil or gas), electric or some other heat source, your system should be checked out to make sure it is working properly. Many other contractors provide these services but we get too many reports that all they are good at doing is collecting their fee and not providing any preventative maintenance or worse. We will actually maintain your equipment and worry about the things that should be worried about and not concentrate on the things that are of minor consequence (such as making sure that your motor run capacitors are the exact value so others can charge $50 for a $5 part).
I have not been able to update this page in a while and I have not been able to respond to all your calls. The reason I have been so busy is that I am trying to help a friend of mine save a piece of property from a bank that is trying to sell it off in violation of trust documents set up by his parents. Depending on your political views you may feel that Americans are entitled to own property or you may believe that banks always know best what we should do with our assets after they have divested us of them. Read more about this at Letter to the president of Sandy Spring Bank. (follow links to home page).
Scott
Please make sure that we get all your contact info so we can schedule a visit.
More to come...
Scott
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If you do not see my instant messenger on then I am not
at home since I have the computer on whenever I am available. On the AOL
IM( n3sjh ) box there is
an indicator that tells how long I have been connected and my idle time.
If you request a call back or want to call me, then you must catch me when
I am not doing service calls or pay a nominal fee for my time. When I am
driving down the road I have plenty of time to kill to "talk shop". I would
love to talk to everyone who contacts me but I must do service calls to
make a living.
911:
While this was a terrible day for our country I believe the worst is yet to come. Not in the form of attacks but by giving up our freedoms to feel more secure and not be more secure. It has become human nature to make the innocent pay for the crimes of others. Lets see how many more of our rights get taken away in the name of freedom.
Please be sure to honor those who died on 9-11 and celebrate freedom by flying flags and buying 9-11 memorabilia made by slave labor in communist China. We need to remind the world what freedom is all about. While you are at it, by some "Support Our Troops" memorabilia made in China.
I believe that the worse is yet to
come...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
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Never be afraid to try new things. Remember,... It was professionals
who
built the Titanic. It was Amateurs that built the Ark.
- Unknown.
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"When good service is not good enough..."