I was given a strong personal recommendation to use ACA, and they were first on my list to replace my 5 ton heating/AC system. Clearly they have some satisfied customers. Sadly I am not one of them.
Their quote was competitive, and due to the personal recommendation, I was willing to wait the 2 - 2.5 weeks they quoted to me to give them my business. My work from home schedule dictated that I spend 9 hours in 90f+ house working, but I had installed a window AC in our bedroom, so we could get relief from the August heat wave at night.
I agreed to hire them, and my wife brought the depost check to their office.
While waiting for the receipt, my wife fortunately noticed their work schedule on their office white board. She saw that we were scheduled for 24 September. The date she was there was Monday 24 August. This was not 2-2.5 weeks, it was 4.5 weeks!
What??? She texted me, and I phoned the company. The phone was passed (like a hot potato I imagine) to the tech who had come to my house and drawn up the quote. He said, yes, when he gave me the quote their install date was 2.5 weeks out, but today it was 4.5 weeks.
He gave me the quote on Thursday, my wife was in the office on Monday. Did they get 2 weeks of business in the intervening weekend?
If I give them the benefit of the doubt (difficult to believe) then I have to wonder why they did not notify my wife that the terms of their quote had changed before they accepted our deposit check??? A two week additional delay, in Tucson, in the summer... they needed to notify us of that change. If my wife had not read their white board, what would have happened???
I phoned my wife, and she drove back to their office and collected our deposit check. Apparently the owner, referring to my decision to cancel, remarked to her "Can't say that I blame him." No kidding.
Consistency among your customer base is a basic practice for a good business. By reading these reviews (and the ones on the site that sounds like oogle) I think that you'll see there is no consistency here.
After cancelling with ACA on Monday, I agreed to another company on Tuesday, and our unit was replaced by Friday and is working great. Please see my other reviews and use that other company! read more