Critical: Honesty, Value, Professionalism (lack of)
I hired Americlean Water Out of Fort Wayne to clean my HVAC vents and ducts in my home. They were subcontracted out to do the work by Master's Heating and Cooling. I was told by Master's Heating and Cooling that I would be charged $35 per vent. The service was performed on June 8th2021. I was scheduled for a time of 1:00 PM and the crew arrived after 2:00PM. The crew consisted of three men. I have two complete HVAC systems in my home, one for the upstairs and another for the downstairs and finished walk-out basement.
The first thing that we did was go through my entire home to count all of the supply and return vents of which there were 44 in total. The crew went to work on the downstairs unit first. They started with the supply vent in the hallway and then moved into my office room. I then took a seat in the back sunroom as they were working. They moved into the Living room next. They then moved into the kitchen and then to the bathroom and laundry room. I asked them if they cleaned the ones in the laundry room and they said that they did, but I did not see them do it. It did not seem to me like they could have cleaned them considering the time they spent between the bathroom and the laundry room. I also suspect that they did not clean the return vent in the living room. I never saw them clean this vent. The items that were in from of the vent were never moved.
My wife was also home at the time, and she was in the finished basement working on a quilt project. Later on, we noticed that the items on a shelf that were blocking the return vent in her quilt room were not moved out of the way. I questioned the crew about this, and I was told that they cleaned this vent and put the items back in place. My wife told me that she never saw them in the quilt room or the closet and bathroom that join the quilt room the entire time she was in the basement.
After the first floor and basement vents were done, the crew moved to the upstairs HVAC unit. I was charged $50 for them to move the vacuum. I disputed this with the crew. My reasoning is that since my home has twice the amount of vents that a typical home would have (I have two HVAC systems) that my job is really like two jobs, and they if they had done two jobs instead of mine, there would not be an additional fee for moving the vacuum.
When the crew moved upstairs, I made sure to follow them around from room to room so they would not miss any vents. They completed the upstairs vents at about 9:00 PM. It was hot that day and we were without air conditioning since 2:00 PM.
At some point in time, I realized that they missed the vent in the back room on the first floor, the room I had been waiting in as they were cleaning the vents on the first floor. They could not dispute this because I told them that I was in the room the whole time. After the second floor was completed, they moved the vacuum back down to the remaining vent to clean it out. They left around 10:00 PM that night.
In addition. they missed vacuuming up the drywall using their shop vac, that came out of all of the vents as their covers were removed and replaced. They did vacuum up most of them, but they also missed a few.
I took this issue up with Water Out on Monday June 14th. I spoke with the general manger who said he would speak with the owners of the company and get back to me that day. He called me back later that day and said he was not able to resolve the issue and told me he would be in touch by Tuesday. As of the time of this writing, Wednesday morning the issue is still not resolved.
I would not recommend this company for this service. read more