Common HVAC Repair Rip-Offs You Should Know About

The cold months are coming and HVAC technicians are starting to get busy again with fixing broken down heating systems and furnaces. It's also the time of the year when dishonest technicians come up with all kinds of stories and scams in order to make money out of you. So that you would know about what to be on the lookout for, here are some of the more common scams that HVAC repair technicians try to pull off these days:

1. One of the more common scams that they try to pull off is to tell you that your furnace is leaking carbon monoxide. Since you know that this is a deadly gas produced by fuel being burned, you would naturally be worried about it. Don't fall for it right away, though.

Ask them to show you proof of a reading on a carbon monoxide meter right there and then. If they can't show it to you then they're just trying to scam you.

2. If a technician tells you that several components or parts of your furnace need to be replaced because it has broken down, then you should be worried. You should be worried that you might have hired a scammer. It is natural for parts of a furnace to break down after a certain period, but not for several parts to break down all at once.

3. If the technician who does the regular maintenance of your furnace always finds something to replace whenever they do routine check-ups, then you should be suspicious. You should ask a second opinion first before agreeing to replace anything if it sounds suspicious to you.

4. Sometimes a large service company might send off an inexperienced technician to deal with your problem. What happens is that they really don't know what's wrong with the heater and so they just end up replacing a part unnecessarily. Ask that an experienced technician should at least be sent to you.

5. Another common rip-off by some technicians is to overprice a replacement part that has been installed. They might inflate the price of the part and since you don't know any better you would pay for it. That can be easily resolved by you checking on the web for the price of the component.

These are just some of the more common scams that some technicians would try to pull off. It would help a lot if you know about these scams so you can be ready for them.

The important thing is that you should try to stay away from scamming technicians in the first place. You can do this by being careful with the way that you hire the technicians that will be doing repair for your furnaces. You can't just hire the first company that you come across

You should look for one that has a solid reputation and which has been around for some time now. Scammers and those technicians that are fond of rip-offs, wouldn't be able to last very long when word of their practice goes around.