The people you depend on to keep you cool in the dog days of summer are HVAC companies. But are some air conditioning repair men actually taking advantage of you. Recently we went undercover to find out what’s really going on.

When your air conditioner breaks,it’s an emergency. No one likes to be excessively hot not to mention the effect the heat has on air quality which makes it difficult for those with breathing problems. So,when it breaks,you call the AC Company of course trusting them to come and fix the problem at a fair price,but… are they really providing you the best solution at the best price? We’ve found that some companies are blowing you hot air when they hand you that big bill.

We called in a few companies to cool our house down. But when these AC repairmen show up we found that many of them were either being dishonest or all together incompetent. One after the other tried charging us big money for repairs that other experts say we didn’t need. We set up our test of these companies right smack in the middle of a heat wave.

First we rented a house inDelawareand had 3 AC experts inspect our system from top to bottom. --- All 3 reported that the AC system was in great to very good condition. Then we brought in another expert to set up a common and easy to fix problem with the system. He set up a simple broken wire that shuts the unit down. He said he would charge less than $200 to fix it. We found that other technicians tell us that you need other work done to fix this problem. This begs us to ask,”Are you either being incompetent or are you just simply being dishonest”?

Once we set up the easy to fix problem,we called in six separate AC companies to come out and fix the problem. The first contractor finds our broken wire but instead of fixing it he wants to charge us for an expensive part. The part he wants to charge us for is called a capacitor. He wants to charge $395 to replace a part that we originally had inspected and found it had absolutely no problems. We called him out on this assessment and he left in a huff declining to comment or return our calls.

The next guy finds and fixes our broken wire rather quickly. But,instead of leaving it at that,he recommends we replace an expensive part saying that the unit is leaking combustible fluid. He claims it needs to be fixed today in order to fix the problem. The cost,$692! The part he claimed was leaking simply displayed harmless rust.

The 3^rdcompany tries to charge us for several expensive parts totally $850! The 4^thcompany claimed we needed new parts as well,including one that didn’t even exist in the system. The price for his repair… $950! At least this company ended up firing that technician for his dishonesty. The 5^thand 6^thcompanies did the same thing with trying to charge us for unnecessary repairs and parts.

In the end,6 out of 6 companies tried to charge us for parts and repairs we did not need. Honestly,we did not expect to see this level of dishonesty or incompetence from so many HVAC contractors in the area.

Experts say that you should get your unit serviced every year so it doesn’t break in the middle of a heat wave but even if it does of course despite what we found there are actually very honest A/C companies out there. To make it easy to find one in Delaware at least,we recommend you start with-.

Pretty much every office in the country is starting to optimize their operations into a digital format,because it is easy to use,and streamlines workflow for all of your employees. However,a lot of these companies still have filing cabinets all over their office,taking up valuable space,and holding old documents that might not even be used all that often. If you can store files in the cloud,and access it anywhere in the world,why can’t you do the same thing with the documents that you already have? The answer is,you absolutely can. Hire a company to come in and scan all of those documents for you,allowing you to store them digitally,and access them easily when you need it.-

How the Scanning Process Works

Sounds like it is a lot of work,doesn’t it? Actually,it is,but the benefits far out-weigh how long it might take to make sure everything is in order. When you hire a document scanning company,they will come to your office with large containers. They will work with you,to make sure that all of your papers are labeled and organized,so they will know what to label the document after it has been scanned. Afterward,the document scanning company will take your documents back to their office,and have teams scan them all into digital files. They will be named clearly and be kept in an organized fashion.

How Scanning Can Help You and Your Company

The benefits of scanning your old documents are tremendous. Think about what you have to do now to find an old receipt. You need to find out which filing cabinet you keep receipts in,then figure out how it is organized,then dig through the entire drawer,just to hopefully find a small piece of paper that you pray hasn’t been destroyed. After scanning,that whole process can be done with a few clicks of a mouse. How can it get any easier? After they have been scanned,you can either store your documents off-site or have them shredded if you aren’t worried about needing the original document again. It will organize and streamline your company in a way that you have never dreamed possible.