I stumbled across Harmonic maybe a year or two ago after having a ultra bad experience with another local HVAC company who actually made fun of me for buying a $250 thermostat instead of just helping me install my Nest. Harmonic consists of a team of super friendly young guys who are all about the latest technology, so we jived well right off the bat. When my furnace died earlier this week, they were the first people I called.
Turns out the problem was with my blower motor, which they were more than happy to replace for me, but I fully realized with how old my furnace was all I was doing was applying a very expensive band-aid to a much larger, totally inevitable problem. I knew when I bought my house it had an ancient furnace from the 80's, so I've been planning for this day for quite a while. Without much hesitation, I signed on for the full enchilada of replacing my dead furnace, dying AC, and finally ditching my janky humidifier that I have to refill multiple times a day for a automatic full-house humidifier- I even sprang for their air purifier. Go big or go home, right?
Once I agreed to the quote and we scheduled the install, Harmonic actually did me a huge solid- I had all my warm blankets and space heaters out and was already coming to terms with the idea of being supremely cold until they could come back a couple days later with the new furnace, but they actually ended up just putting in a loaner blower motor for free, which they then just took back when they hauled my old furnace out.
Totally unexpected for them to be willing to do that, but totally awesome. (I actually ended up writing a check as if they had done the blower motor replacement service instead, which they gave back to me when they returned for the install in case I changed my mind.) This kind of stuff always makes me super loyal to repair guys, as they TOTALLY could have been like, "Yeah well if you want your heat working TODAY, it'll be $XXX, or you can just be cold!" When it's in the single digits with a snowstorm inbound, an unscrupulous repair guy would totally have you by the you-know-what's on that, and it'd probably even have worked.
Anyway, they came back a couple days later, and that morning as I was moving stuff away from my furnace I noticed my water heater was ALSO leaking. (Bad things happen in threes, like they say.) So, what was just an AC and furnace install turned into an AC, furnace, and hot water heater. Jeremy and his two guys, Tony and Brandon, spent the whole day ripping out all my old and busted stuff and replacing it with new hotness. (Literal hotness, as, man, having a new furnace is nice and toasty.)
Later that night, the PEX tube feeding the humidifier somehow popped off, which I was able to catch pretty quickly and turn off. I texted Jeremy at around 11:00 PM not really expecting any kind of response right away and instead was met with a profuse apology, offering to send a cleaning service (It's just a little water, it's fine!), and to have his guys come out first thing the following morning to fix it.
Bright and early, Tony shows up again to make a couple tweaks, and aside from that minor bump in the road which was fixed practically immediately, everything went awesome. I can't wait to get my first gas bill to see how much of a difference a two-stage furnace and new water heater make (same goes for an electric bill and the AC).
The price they quoted was good considering they install all name brand stuff between Trane, Honeywell, and Rheem, and any charges for labor were well worth it as everything looks so much neater and nicer than the mess I had in my basement before. They even moved my water heater for me to a much more sensible place, which is going to make refinishing (or, more accurately, *talking about* refinishing) my basement that much easier.
Overall, great service from a great company staffed by great guys. They know their stuff too, ask Jeremy any random question about anything to do with HVAC stuff and he'll give you an answer that's so comprehensive it's incredible. HOPEFULLY with all this new stuff I don't see the dudes at Harmonic for a very long time (maybe for beers, not for furnaces!), but I'll definitely be recommending them to anyone who needs anything HVAC related done in the future. read more