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Air conditioning system units are essential to our households to make us comfortable.
However, it can be troublesome to do AC repair and maintenance by yourself, but you should keep in mind not to skip the maintenance day.
Since a damaged or dirty air conditioner can significantly affect its efficiency and, worse, it may cost you expensive electricity bills.
However, you may call for HVAC companies to do the maintenance for you.
Even so, beware of free AC inspections.
There are a lot of scams and frauds that offer free air conditioner inspections.
Although there are companies that provide free assessments, fraud like this is still prevalent.
Here are a few tricks that they use to swindle you:
Provides promos and offers that are too good to be true.
Providing you offers that are too good to be true is a widespread trick done by swindlers.
Remember that companies and people in business, in general, are to make a profit.
Sometimes they offer the best services to their customers and will cut any corners to get you.
It is not wrong to have a healthy suspicion of free services, especially if they also have offers that are too good to be true.
Sometimes, people in this field promise free services and exciting discounts because most often than not, they may persuade you to buy something that you never planned on buying.
One thing you can do is to insist on writing an agreement, so if anything wrong happens, you have a written proof if there is a need to do any legal recourse.
Replacing parts that do not need any repair and replacing.
Another infamous scam in this area is that repair technicians will advise you to replace a “damaged” component when in reality, that part is correctly functioning.
Then they will sell you the part at a very high price, expensive enough to buy a new system unit instead.
They will also tell you to persuade you ultimately that there are several faulty parts of your air conditioner.
However, this is not a common problem.
There are chances that you only have one defective part.
Since one faulty part of the system can compromise the whole functioning.
One way to prevent this from happening is to seek multiple opinions about your system unit.
Even so, beware of free AC inspections.
Selling you more refrigerant than you received and claiming you need to “recharge” your refrigerant.
Refrigerant is one of the core components of your air conditioner.
This is where the cold air comes from.
Sometimes air conditioner repair technicians will tell you that this part needs recharging so they can scam you for another unnecessary bill to pay for the “recharging.”
However, your refrigerant does need it.
Sometimes when your system unit is short on refrigerant, it means it is leaking.
So you must understand what your repair technician is trying to do.
Additionally, some people will offer you a full for refrigerant but will short you upon installation, and when you notice this and call them again for the error, they will profit from two service bills.
It is essential to weigh your refrigerant before the technician fills your unit and record the amount.
They are asking for upfront payment with pushy, high-pressure sales.
HVAC technicians will scare you about the damages, so you will end up paying way too much for their services and parts that you do not need.
If you notice that there are technicians that are doing this scare tactic to you, you need to decline head-strong.
Never give in.
There is a possibility that they are scaring you, so you will not ask for any second opinion anymore.
Additionally, they are most likely to ask for an upfront cash payment before repair and maintenance.
However, the worst thing that could happen in this scenario is that they might take the money and run.
Most HVAC companies ask for money after they provide their services.
Always remember, beware of free AC inspections.
So, where to find the most trustworthy HVAC company in Cleveland?
Our people from HVAC Cleveland Pros swear upon our pride as technicians.
We make sure that our customers can understand their system unit’s problem and the repairs that we will be doing.
This is to create a trust bond between us.
So look no further and choose HVAC Cleveland Pros!
Call us now!
