DO NOT do business with this company! I wish I had seen all these bad reviews before dealing with them.
I got involved with Moonworks when a woman, who said she was "from Mass Save", came to my door offering an energy audit. My wife and I had just bought the house in 2013, and had actually discussed getting an audit done, as the furnace was very old, and the central air didn't even work. So, this seemed like a good time to do it. However, it wasn't until I had signed-up for the audit that the woman disclosed that she actually worked for Moonworks, not Mass Save. No matter, they are still with the Mass Save program, right?
Like everyone else who has reviewed them here, I dealt with canceling and rescheduling, and less-than-professional people. But all that is small potatoes compared to what happened to me!
The first auditor came, and truly seemed like he wasn't sure what he was doing. He asked the same questions multiple times. But, I let him go about his business. He looked around in the attic and basement. He ran some tests on the furnace. He asked if he could test the AC, even though I had already told him twice that it didn't work at all. When he was done, he told us the insulation improvements he recommended, some of which were free through Mass Save, and some which we would need to pay for. He also mentioned that he had got a "weird" reading from our furnace, something that he hadn't ever seen before, but that it was fine and safe. We signed-up to have the insulation done, and gave him a deposit check for the work that wasn't covered under Mass Save.
A couple of weeks later, the workers came to do the insulation. But, before they could start, they told me they needed to test the furnace again. Evidently, the law requires that they test the ventilation before and after the installation. Here came the first surprise.... he said my furnace gives off dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide! I told him the first guy had mentioned a "weird" reading, but said that it was safe. He told me this was not even CLOSE to safe. They packed-up their truck and left.
I called Mass Save to find out about financing for a new furnace. They asked me for information from a paper the auditor was supposed to have left with me, but he had not. I called Moonworks and told them what was going on. They said they would send someone back out (which I insisted was not the same guy). While I had them on the phone, I let them know that, due to the need to replace my furnace, I wasn't going to be able to do the portion of the insulation that cost money, and I needed my deposit back. I was told to mail the contract back, indicating that I was canceling, which I did later the same day.
Several days later, the new auditor came. He tested the furnace, and agreed that it was extremely dangerous. He also noted that the first auditor had written that the furnace was from 2005, but it was actually from 1993. He sat down to do the paperwork I needed. To his credit, he was very honest about the fact he hadn't done one of the Mass Save audits before, and he called someone on the phone who talked him through it.
So... here's the point of this long story... the man from the HVAC company I hired came to give me an estimate on replacing my furnace. I let him know that 3 people had tested it, and 1 said it was safe, but the other 2 said it wasn't. He told me he didn't even NEED to test it (which he later did anyway, just to be thorough), and showed me the BIG RED TAG on the furnace from when it had been deemed unsafe for carbon monoxide in 2010!!! Not a single one of the three Moonworks employees had seen this tag?! According to my HVAC guy, it was hanging right in front of the access panel, so they would have seen it when they opened the panel to read the serial number. I couldn't be more angry!
On a side note... I called several times over the next 6 weeks to find out where my deposit refund was. Every time I called, I was told that they "just got the cancellation request." When I finally said to someone, "That's what you said 2 weeks ago!", I was told that the woman who does refunds was on vacation. I'm happy(?) to report, however, that I did finally get my refund.
I've let Moonworks know that I don't want them coming back to my house... ever. I will have another company do the insulation upgrades. And, the experience was so bad, that I've registered on Yelp just to be able to tell all of you, DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH MOONWORKS! read more