A replacement quote, with no failed part shown
A system can genuinely be past saving. If it is, there is a measurement behind that conclusion and somebody should be able to show it to you.
Second opinion
Someone quoted you a big number.
Bring me the quote. I will tell you what the same work costs off the published list here, or whether it needs doing at all. It is $120, and it is already on the price list.
No trip fee in North Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and Scottsdale. If the quote you are holding runs to four or five figures, this costs less than one percent of it.
What it costs
- Second opinion
- $120
- Trip fee
- None
- Outside the area
- $150 minimum
- Diagnostic
- $140
- Before you buy a house
- $220
- Phone
- (602) 935-7471
What you get
Measured, not argued.
- I read the quote you were given, line by line
- I measure the system myself: pressures, amp draws, capacitor, airflow
- You get told what the same work costs off the published list here
- You get told if it does not need doing at all
- You keep the readings and the photos, whatever you decide
The readings are yours to keep. Take them back to the first company if you want. That is part of what they are for.
Why this one is not a sales call
I am not allowed to sell you a system.
No job here can go over $1,000 in labor and materials combined. That is a legal limit on REVBIT LLC, not a positioning statement, and it has a useful side effect: there is no version of this visit that ends in a financing application, because selling you equipment is not something I am able to do.
Nobody here works on commission either. If your system genuinely needs replacing, you will be told so and handed to a licensed Arizona contractor, with no fee and no referral markup. I have nothing to gain from either answer, which is the entire reason a second opinion from here is worth having.
Before you call
Things a quote should be able to answer.
One number, with nothing itemised
A total with no breakdown cannot be compared against anything, which is usually the point. Ask which part, which labor, which price.
A discount that expires today
Equipment and labor do not get cheaper because you signed on a Tuesday. Urgency in a quote is a sales technique, not a price.
A refrigerant top-off with no leak search
A sealed system does not consume refrigerant. Charging it without finding the leak means paying for the same gas twice.
A diagnosis you cannot repeat back in a sentence
If you cannot explain what is broken to somebody else, you were not told what is broken. That is worth fixing before you spend anything.
None of these mean you are being cheated. Plenty of quotes with every one of these features are perfectly honest. They mean the quote has not shown its work, and you are entitled to ask it to.
Straight answers
The things people actually want to ask.
Is a second opinion really just $120?
Yes, and it is on the published price list. In North Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and Scottsdale there is no trip fee on top of it. On a four or five figure quote it is a cheap way to find out whether you were right to hesitate.
What if the first quote turns out to be fair?
Then you will hear that, plainly, and you will have paid a small amount for the confidence to go ahead. That happens, and it is a good outcome rather than a wasted visit.
Are you just going to undercut them and take the job?
No, and mostly I cannot. No job here can exceed $1,000 in labor and materials combined, so anything genuinely large is not work I am able to take. If that is what yours is, you get handed to a licensed Arizona contractor with no fee and no referral markup.
Do I need the written quote in hand?
It helps a great deal, but it is not required. If all you have is a number somebody said out loud and a knot in your stomach, that is enough to start with.
I am buying a house and want the AC checked before I close.
That is a different visit with its own flat price, $220, because it is a full evaluation rather than a review of somebody else's quote.
Read me the number.
Often I can tell you on the phone whether it is in the right range, before anyone books anything.