72°F Mechanical Consulting, LLC

John was engaged to evaluate my condo’s inadequate heating issue during cold spells. It involved a thorough understanding of the building’s systems in order to pin point the reason and offer a concrete recommendation to the building in order to improve the heating of my residence. John’s approach was thorough, showed a high degree of knowledge of the inner workings of different hot water circulation systems, fan coil as well as fin tube. His recommendations were accepted by the building to to successfully resolve the issue.

In the last 8 years I’ve spent close to $25k having my heating system tinkered with by various plumbing companies who gave contradictory solutions to the lack of consistent heat in my 4 story townhouse. I was working with another company who was coming up more solutions in the middle of a project costing more and more money.!
I am very happy I decided to stop the job and hv 72 Consulting come in and do a complete assessment of the entire system. I received a thorough report within 1 week which gave a clear picture of my system and its requirements. Interestingly this is the only company that did mathematical calculations on the system.
I wished I had used this service years ago. it would have saved me thousands of dollars and a lot of headaches.

At first I was confused by 72F’s policy of not actually doing the work they recommend, but their consulting service probably saved money in the long run. They didn't try to sell me anything, but did tell me how to fine tune and maintain our system to get the best out of it and hopefully prevent problems in the long run. John came out and did recommend some work, but I did the smaller stuff myself and he put me in touch with a plumber who could handle what I didn't think I could do myself. He came and inspected everything when it was done and didn’t charge us for the follow-up visit. Well worth the $2,500 (roughly, plus repairs) for our small co-op.

The guy from 72F spent an hour walking through my basement and boiler room, knew exactly what he was looking at, and described all that was going wrong with my steam heating system without even running it or starting up the boilers (which I appreciated given it was a hot summer day). His assessment proved to be spot on and and was detailed in a short report with annotated photos of the pipes and showing clear, specific fixes that ultimately silenced my banging pipes when several others failed to cure these issues in multiple attempts. Pricey service but more than worth it in the end, especially since we seemed to have used less fuel this past season, which definitely saved us money.

My COOP had John from 72F at our steam-heated building to address some noise and over heating problems, we’ve been dealing with for years. He has a better understanding of how these systems work than the other so-called “experts” we have had tried to resolve the problem. He emailed us instructions of how we will need to fix the issue and gave out Super some unsolicited advice on how best to manage the system to prevent the problem from occurring again. We manage Not only were 72F’s fees reasonable but we were left with a sense of professional trust that is hard to find in the service industry today.