I had Ryan come to service a unit with a noisy fan Ryan indicated the fan needed to be replaced & due to the age of the unit replacement parts were not available. He offered to replace the entire unit with a used one which he said was "still fairly new & was roughly the same BTU output" The cost would be $1300 plus $500 installation.
The completed work was messy (tangles of wires & unconnected electronics) Crude(attached by scabbing in a 2x4) & perhaps even unsafe (no teflon tape used on some gas connections) Shortly after installation I noticed that the unit could not sufficiently heat the room even with the central heating on. It was not very cold out. This was never the case with the original unit. A few days later the fan stopped working
When I later downloaded the manual I discovered that model was last made in 2007 making it at least 17 years old. Furthermore its BTU output was only about half that of the original.
With the work completed and it is very much completed I have $1800 less and a non heater with no fan.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $1,800.00