Readings before opinions
Nothing is diagnosed from the driveway and nothing is replaced on a guess. If we cannot show you why, we have not finished diagnosing.
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A two-van shop on Vesper Circle.
How we quote, what we will not sell you, and the limits we would rather you knew before you hire us than after.
How we work
Diagnose, price, then do the work.
Three steps, in that order, on every job including the small ones.
We are a small licensed HVAC contractor in Corona, working mostly on single-family homes across the valley, with a light commercial side on the same streets — storefronts, offices and small industrial suites.
Everything starts with readings. A flat diagnostic fee brings a technician out to find the cause rather than to look for a reason to sell you a system, and it comes off the bill if you go ahead with the repair. When both a repair and a replacement are real options, you get both numbers side by side and the decision stays with you.
We put the quote in writing, including what it does not cover. You are welcome to take it to somebody else. A quote that only makes sense while the salesman is still standing in your kitchen is not a quote.
What you can hold us to
Four commitments.
Short, because a long list is not a commitment.
Both numbers, side by side
Where a repair and a replacement are both genuinely viable, you get both prices in writing and we say which we would choose and why.
We find the leak
A system low on refrigerant is a system that is leaking. We locate it or we tell you the coil is finished. We do not sell an annual top-up as a service.
The side yard is left clean
Coil rinse water, fin debris, old parts and packaging go with us. You should not be able to tell where we worked except that the unit is cleaner.
Limits
What we do not do.
Saying it here is faster than being asked five times.
- No 24-hour emergency cover. A two-van shop cannot staff it honestly. We answer from seven, and no-cooling calls in occupied homes go to the front of the day during a heat run.
- No duct cleaning as a product. We repair, seal, insulate and replace duct. Cleaning it rarely fixes the complaint that prompted the call.
- No air-purifier upselling. There are houses that genuinely need better filtration. Most of the ones we visit need a bigger filter area and a second return.
- No savings percentages. Not on equipment, not on duct sealing, not on anything. It depends on your house and your rate plan, and a figure from a doorstep is a brochure.
- No roofing, no solar, no electrical panel work. We flag what a job needs and work alongside the trade that holds that licence.
- No properties bigger than we can look after. If a commercial site needs a larger contractor we say so in the first conversation.
Credentials
Insurance, permits and warranty.
- Insurance
- General liability and workers' compensationCertificates on request, and sent automatically with any commercial quote or where a property manager needs them on file.
- Refrigerant
- EPA Section 608 certifiedRequired to handle refrigerant legally. Recovery is done properly on every changeout, including on equipment going to scrap.
- Permits
- Pulled, and the inspector metChangeouts are permitted work in this county. An unpermitted install becomes a problem years later, usually in escrow.
- Warranty
- Manufacturer's on the equipment, ours on the labourThe terms are written on the quote in plain sentences rather than referenced in a footnote.
Start with a diagnostic.
A flat fee, credited against the repair, and you get the readings whether or not you go ahead.