On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:12:03 GMT, Les Wilson wrote:
We recently had a new gas furnace and central AC installed. Paid about
$4700 from a local well known company for Rheem equipment (2-1/2 ton 10 SEER
AC and an 80% dual stage, variable speed 75,000 BTU (I think) furnace for a
1750 sq ft home). It took two guys a good 7 hours to do the work. We're in
upstate NY.

A second quote from another local company that's well known was anywhere
from $4700 to $6500 for Carrier equipment - depending on the efficiency
ratings.

A co-worker's husband does commercial HVAC for a school district and does
installs on the side. He quoted me for $3700 for a similar Rheem
installation.

A neighbor across the street does HVAC for a living - saw the vans parked
out front and later on out of curiosity asked me how much we paid - and said
he would have come under the quote from my co-worker's husband.

I don't have buyer's remorse - I was ready to go with the co-worker's
husband, but my father-in-law is also our State Farm agent and he had
insurance concerns and all that good stuff since the co-worker's husband
wasn't bonded/insured/licensed to do the work independently. My wife didn't
doubt the quality of his work or if he would stand behind it - her concern
was if the installation was faulty she wanted deeper pockets to go after if
something went horribly wrong. Also would he stand behind his work at 2am
in January?


I'm also in Rochester, and got pretty much exactly the same equipment
installed three years ago, in a 50 year old house. Did the company happen
to have the initials I H A A C?

Anyway, we paid something around $3800 to remove the old furnance,
do a bit of duct work, and install new furnance and the outside A/C unit.
( There was no A/C in the house, before. ) We have a 1300 sq ft house. There
was one guy working most of the day, with a second one who came in
to help carry out the old, absolutely huge Perfection furnace that
was there before. Boy, am I glad I didn't have to help with THAT. ;-)

- Rich