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Been thinking about getting a place along the coast. Do I really need A/C or heat?
Atlantic and Pacific are very different oceans. Water temperature at the San Diego-Coronado Ferry terminal is currently 72. Up at the Scripps Pier, it is 65. At the Mercer Pier on Wrightsville Beach outside Wilmington, the ocean temperature is 84. At Charleston harbor it's 87. You'll still get a sea breeze, but not only will it be warmer than you'd like, it will be very humid because air at 86 has 75% more capacity for water vapor than air at 68.
Anyone want to throw out specific recommendations for...
The answer to this question is the same regardless of the trade/profession etc.
START with people you already know ... who have some related competence...
and who you already have a reason to trust the opinion of.
i need a new unit, mine is very old and over size, I dont want it to break when Im 70 so I figure i upgrade now
Im deaf or very close to it, I was born this way 60 years ago, so the hvac people told me since i dont have a phone, they dont want my business, all i want them to do is come out replace my system and i pay them for it, why do i need a phone, they can email me when there are ready
so when they ask for my phone number and i told them i dont have one, they replied, we dont want your business, contact some one else
welcome to the future b29510, get a phone and learn to text if you want to deal with the world. When they are dispatching techs and scheduling they want responses in a timely manner not when you get around to checking an email which is increasingly unreliable with all the major free providers filtering out legit communications as spam.
i need a new unit, mine is very old and over size, I dont want it to break when Im 70 so I figure i upgrade now
Choose a different HVAC service that has an email address that you can use or a form to fill out on their website. Let them know that you don't have a phone because you are deaf. The place that I use has a form with a field to type in and you can let them know how to contact you.
I rarely have an issue getting expected communications using free email services, but always check the spam folder if you don't see a response.
Been thinking about getting a place along the coast. Do I really need A/C or heat?
Have you been around here in the summer time? 100 degrees and as humid as Alabama . You don't really need it but youll sure want it.
Also, these scams are not limited to just the HVAC industry. Best to call a 1 or 2 man operation. These large companies are terrible about trying to upsale
Any company that wants to grow and make a profit will upsell. Sometimes the upsells are valid, sometimes they re middle of the road things that most people don't need or some people like for peace of mind, sometimes they are just crap.
Not just HVAC, but think of all the upsells: Phone, Cable, Electric, Exterminator, restaurants, and the list goes on.
I think Nancy Regan said it best: "Just say no!"
Let someone else pay for the upsells. Hell! Encourage them! That way, the company won't have to increase their prices on base services to stay in business. It's like the gym that I pay $10/mo for and use 3-4 times a week. I love all those that rarely use the gym and subsidize my membership cause if they all came as frequently as I do, there'd be a line out the door to use the equipment!
Been thinking about getting a place along the coast. Do I really need A/C or heat?
Not if it's the coast of Southern California or the Amalfi Coast or the southern Coast of France, or some areas like those with temps of 74 degrees +/- 2 degrees year round. But anywhere else, yeah. Which is on reason why a place on those coasts cost 4-10x as much as the NC coast
I'm not in NC but this thread made me recall a video I saw yesterday on Tictok. An HVAC tech in Tx went to a costumers how for a repair. Turns out that it was just the capacitor. Cost was $580. That included a $200 and $280 for the $20 capacitor. I don't like big government but this should be illegal. Texas heat is different than NC so a/c is a requirement.
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