Come spring time (2010), I turned my air on and it wasn't cooling. I'd used Middleton for their Spring and Fall maintenance check up before (costs about $200 total) and thought that was a fair price. So, I called them to come out since I figured my Freon was just low. I had an early afternoon appointment (12-2:30). The guy didn't show up till 5:30. I have 2 condensing units (the square looking unit outside your house where you put freon in). He pressure checked both units and neither had any freon in them. As soon as he found this he said he would recommend not putting any more money into the units and recommended to replace my entire system (2 heating and cooling units) because they were 14 years old (thats not real old)!!! He wouldn't give me an approximate price but I've had them quote another system before and it was $6,000 for one unit, so I new I'd be looking at about $12,000 for 2 units. He said he could put freon in the condensing units and see what happeed. So he did, and turns out I just had a hole in my refrigerant line in both units which caused the freon to leak out (an easy fix)! So here he was wanting me to spend $12,000 instead of just fixing 2 small holes. He said he could'nt fix one of the condensing units because of the location of the hole and that I would have to replace that condensing unit out (cost of $2,000 approximately). I said well just fix the other unit then. So he fixed it and I was charged $650 dollars total for 1 1/2 hours easy work and $130 of that was material cost. That breaks down to $346 an hour!!!!
Pros: Fall and Spring maintenance check is a decent deal
Cons: Extremely overpriced and try to sell you stuff you dont need
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