Gas Fireplace Doctor

He quoted me $89 + hst to come and service my built-in gas fire. As far as we knew there was nothing wrong with it. We always turn if off in the spring to save wasting gas during the summer months. Happily he was able to get to us that day.
He was quite personable. Got down to business right away. Looked at the coals and said something like 'they've been moved, you should not move them'. One had a bit of black on. He told me it would have to be 'clean and maintenance' which would be $129.00. I read that as 'the cost is now in the next bracket'.
He was done in 40 minutes and showed us the results. The fire did look good. Having advised me never to move the coals he'd not only moved them around into new positions but had also not put them all back.
Then he gave me the credit card machine. I couldn't help gasp when i saw the price. His answer to my query was it's $89 for the service and $129 for the maintenance and cleaning the glass (plus hst).
He did nothing more than previous gas fire servicers had done for less than half the price!