June 2014 NEW AC:
My rental unit (1700 sq feet) AC was not cooling 6/4/2014 called Prosper Air based on their all 5* reviews here, they put 8 lb of R-22 at $50/lb in the 13 seer AC unit. charged me $525/-.
Four days after 6/8/2014 it stopped cooling again. Then called them again, PA said that the indoor coil is leaking it will be $1500 to fix including labor and parts, instead I asked them to replace the whole system with 10 year complete warranty. At that time I was in California on a 2 wk vacation with family. June 9th 2014 is when they replaced it with a new American Standard unit with 10 year warranty. Paid close to $5000.
New AC Problem 1 (February 2015):
The same winter electric bill spikes to like crazy $1000 per month for couple of months, AC was continuously running but not cooling, when I called them (after tenant informed me) they came and said unit has manufacturing defect, wires were cross connected hence both Cooling and Heating unit were running simultaneously. They fixed the problem and gave some credit for the first month loss but said would not pay any part of second month loss.
New AC Problem 2 (Sep 19 2016):
The AC does not cool again and PA technician said that one of the valves was lose and they tightened that and refilled with Freon.
New AC Problem 3 (Oct 19 2016):
One month after the AC does not cool again and this time they come and the technician says the indoor coil has a leak and most likely has been there all along but American Standard only pays for 1 year labor. But after the technician leaves I call the company they are now saying that because the filter was dirty which they noticed Sep 2016, that is why the coil is leaking. I check with a HVAC friend who lives in OK and he laughs that it's highly unlikely a dirty filter can cause a metal coil to leak. Now these guys are asking me for labor cost of $500 to fix and suggested I should have taken the yearly service they have to prevent such problems (caused by dirty filter). The tenant says he actually changes them every three months. He sent me the current filter picture which looks a little dirty which he says he put about 3 weeks back. PA says they have picture of dirty filter since last time and going to email it to me but they have not sent me the picture yet. Not sure how this company gets 5* from so many customers!!!
Update 10/19/2016 6 PM CT:
They told me on phone that the technician saw the filter looked like 6 months old, in the email they are saying that the tenant had changed the filter right before the technician went there. Also on the email now they are agreeing that the coil leak is manufacturing defect, on the phone they said that the dirty filter was the reason.
They did not even put Freon while we sort this out, the temperature is 87 degree now on Oct 19 2016 at 6:30 PM.
Update 10/20/2016:
Now they are saying they won't do the warranty work. The reason they are giving is because I threatened them with court yesterday. I did that when they kept changing story this what I said "Or I can call another company that his friend recommends who does business in Frisco and if they say that the problem is not due to dirty filter then you leave me with no option but to go to BBB or even court!" This morning I had gotten an email from them saying that best they can do is do it for $500. I asked them to reduce the price to $300 from $500 for labor on the indoor call (part to be supplied by manufacturer through warranty) because it happened so close to labor warranty expiry. I even said ok I will pay $500 but they would not respond any more.
Conclusion:
Such a waste of time and money. Now I compare how many reviews some of the other HVAC companies with lot more employees have to PA (compare Bill Joplin has only 5 reviews) these guys have 38, looks like customers are just making beeline to review this company with 5*s. BTW I have no association with Bill Joplin nor I have used them yet, I came across their name when I called Colony AC company they recommended to try Joplin or Houk.
Update 10/31/2016:
I had Bill Joplin technician take a look at the system, it was turned off. They did a check of indoor coils and found no leak. Yes no leak. They said the frozen AC could be a symptom of dirty filter, since a new filter was already installed they just started the AC after checking Freon level (which was appropriate) and it's working fine now. This now makes me wonder if the report they made June 2016 that the coil was leaking is even true, did they even put 8 lb Freon they charged me for? I asked them to replace the AC while I was on vacation as they told me coil leaking. read more