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The installation team (Ryan and others) were excellent. We had to insist on a larger AC Unit, as there was unaccounted square footage. Also surprised that there was drilling through an outside wall that was not explained when getting and signing the bid. STILL....I'd recommend them highly- the price was very reasonable- definitely less than others! And the work was completed efficiently and with no worries by an excellent team of workers. Would definitely use South Side Plumbing and Heating again!!

Definitely won't use again. We bought an old house and had brand new central heating and cooling installed. After just 1 full summer, the cooling wasn't working. It was running constantly, the house wasn't cooling, and our electricity bill was through the roof. They came to take a look at it, said it needed a tune up and we paid $149 for them to top off the freon. It didn't make any sense to me because it was a very expensive unit and was so new. The technician told me that they just don't make these units like they used to and we should do a tune up every year. The beginning of the next summer, it wasn't working at all. We had them back again. They said the Freon was low again. I argued about the need for another tune up. It just didn't make sense for such an expensive new unit. They found there was a leak in the coil. Since it was still under warrantee, we didn't have to pay for the new coil. It took weeks for the coil to come. They came and replaced the coil. We paid $280 for a few hours of labor. The technician said I found the leak...there was a screw through the line This is an exact quote. When I told my husband about this, he thought we shouldn't have to pay for any of this. Obviously, we didn't put a screw through the coil. Either the company did it with the install or the manufacturer had a faulty product. When he called the company, they called me a liar. I am pretty upset. I feel like we were had and lied to over the past few years. I feel stupid for not asking more questions along the way. I did not record our conversation, and I did not keep the bad coil. I have no evidence to support what I KNOW happened and the truth of what happened. Even more than the money we have paid to this company, this is about the integrity of the company and taking advantage of people.

I scheduled a furnace check up for the older furnace in my home after seeing an advertised promotion. Two technicians showed up at the appointment time (I believe one was being trained) and they spent about 25 minutes inspecting the unit before going over some things I needed to be aware of. He suggested a few things I could look into getting done that would make the furnace more efficient but was not pushy and gave me a rough cost idea. He even suggested I call the electric company and request a rebate catalog that may save me some money. Good experience overall.

I recently purchased a house, one of the selling points was that the Steam Boiler was new, and installed less than a year ago at that time. Based on this I was confident that I wouldn’t have any issues with the heating system, and that it would be efficient. Turns out I was wrong, through most of the winter I have struggled with the system for various reasons, noise, too much water getting into the radiators, slow to heat, etc. After extensive research and some help from an on-line message board I come to find out that the piping configuration that Wahl did near the boiler is all wrong, it doesn’t meet what is shown in the installation manual for the boiler, which voids my boilers manufacturer warrany, or standard convention. They used too small of a riser, and only one where there could have been two, which is a contributor to it being slow to heat, they used press on fittings which is not recommended, it goes horizontal way too low, which is causing “wet steam”. I’m disappointed that something I was assumed was done right clearly was not, and now I am going to have to pay to correct it. Maybe these guys are better at forced air systems, but it seems they don’t know steam, nor take the care and attention to detail to learn.