Recently we installed an air conditioning system 852 n. Damen ave. What surprises me was our price offer to our new customer was $2850.00, another HVAC contractor comparing apples to apples price was $3600.00 not unreasonable; however the next two quotes I seen from our new customers was shocking. One of the two contractors quote was higher than it should have been at $ 6200.00. A bit high, it was the last quote which was shockingly high even to me especially when I thought I’ve seen and heard it all.

The fourth and final quote for the same exact equipment was $ 9600.00 and our customer said she was almost ready to sign because the slick talking salesmen had her believing that all the other HVAC contractors prior to him were scam artist and fly by nights and that he was giving her the best deal.

After her dealings with the last contractor she said she immediately called me Big Ed of Around The Town Heating and Cooling and scheduled the appointment for the following Saturday the 14 of August. We did the work without a hitch and they are comfortable in their 70 degree home, by the way they went the entire week of the fourteenth without a/c. (talk about salesmen and how they prey on the weary)?

My point is that how much is enough? you have the illegal’s installing furnace, boilers and air conditioning system for a few hundred dollars over the cost of equipment and then you have those slick tongued sales guys trying to get as much as they can on every sale.

We are not bashing any HVAC Contractor Chicago in particular, We are just saying consumer beware”. We have pricing on items that are higher than average but our success rate is greater and our motto is “whatever it takes” are service and repair rates are a little higher than they should be but our call back rates are less than 1/2 % per year, Yes I’m tooting my horn about that!

Around The Town Heating and Cooling has no sales teams, we do not send our people to schools to manipulate a sale, we mean what we say. Our sales approach is as simple as these few question,  what are looking for from your new hvac system? Or what would you like? If you’re not sure let’s talk a spell about your plans, for instance; are you planning on staying at your current dwelling for a long time? Do you have any future plans of renovating? What does your budget allow? Now that question is not a trick question, we really mean to get you fitted with the right air conditioner, boiler or furnace within your means. *Never allow any sales person to push you into a sale that will put you in deep debt for a comfort heating or cooling system.

One thing I may add is, we never play the how low can you go game, anotherwards don’t say to our guys we can get it cheaper elsewhere, if that is or was the case why would you be wasting our time? Our prices are “a fair days install for a fair days wage!

The best brand of air conditioners, boilers, and furnaces are the ones that are installed correctly.

Call Big Ed and crew today for any assistance for your hvac needs today at 312-243-9896

Comfort tips for these hot days.      

Keep cool, be careful out doors!

Tips for keeping your a/c working through this next few days of extreme heat.

1. For your health, drink plenty of fluids, never guzzle ice cold soft drinks or water.
2. Wear protective head wear to keep the blaring sun off of your head.
3. If you feel dizzy from the heat get to a cool location and seek medical treatment or ask a stranger for help, by all means don’t be pig headed and say I’ll be all right.
4. In your home or business, its no problem if you remove your furnace filter for a day so your blower motor and evaporator coil gets proper air flow for humidity control and proper cooling.
5. Keep your thermostat at a reasonable temperature setting like 75 degrees so that if your going in and out of your home or place of business your body does not get shocked.
6.  By all means if your a/c isn’t working pick up the phone anc call the comfort cooling guys of Around The Town heating and cooling at 312-243-9896 “Bringing comfort to you.”

HAVE YOU PURCHASED THE NEW STYLE HOT WATER TANK AND SEEM TO HAVE NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS WITH IT?

DON’T FFEL ALONE, WE HAVE HAD NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NEW HWT’S CONCERNING THE FLAMES STAYING ON OR NOT ENOUGH HOT WATER.

OUR GOVERMENT AND THE LAWS CONCERNING SAFTEY AND EFFICIENCIES??? POPPY COCK!

THE OLDER STYLE HOT WATER TANKS WHEN YOU HAD TO LIGHT THEM MANUALLY SEEMED TO LAST FOREVER, WE HAVE CUSTOMERS THAT HAVE THE OLDER STYLE HWT’S THAT ARE 30 YEARS AND OLDER AND STILL WORKS WELL.

THE NEW HOT WATER TANKS HAVE GLASS LIMIT CONTROLS AND FUSEABLE LINKS THAT TRIP IF THE CHAMBER GETS TO HOT, THE OLDER STYLE TANKS WORKED JUST FINE, NEW TECNOLOGY????

THE NEW RULE IS THAT YOU’ AS THE CONSUMER SHOULD EMPLOY HEATING AND PLUMBING CONTRACTOR ONCE A YEAR TO CLEAN AND VACUUM THE BURNER TRAY AND ASSEMBLY. AROUND THE TOWN HEATING AND COOLING OFFERS REASONABLE RATES FOR HOT WATER TANK CLEANING AND WHILE WE ARE AT YOUR RESIDENCE LET US CLEAN YOUR BOILER, FURNACE AND AIR CONDITIONER.

CALL 312-243-9896 TODAY.

You may be wondering about this heading about size and its importance. This reference has nothing to do the human anatomy, however sizes of certain things may make a difference concerning your comfort level and your willingness to try new things.

If you’re a consumer who cares about personalized service and have not found that service readily available to you and you wish it to be, and then look no further than Around The Town Heating and Cooling. We use tags like “we care heating and air” and we do!

Our company is a small shop and we like it that way. Big Ed feels that if a customer is a number, how do you put a face with a number? Every customer in our customer base is remembered and when they call. Ed remembers them and remembers the service He and his guys performed for that customer.

There is an article in the HVAC News magazine about one man shops verses the big corporations and frankly I disagree with that article and what it implies. http://www.achrnews.com/Articles/Cover_Story/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000867656.

Being a one man shop or a small outfit only lends itself to my point of knowing our customers by name and face and a little about their life verses just a number. We care if a customer is having financial distress and needs our service, we care if a customer has lost their job or their children are sick or a family member has passed on, “We Care”

Chicago Tribune wrote an article about the heat on July 24th 2010 and called Big Ed and asked his input about the heat wave of late. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-24/news/ct-met-hot-humid-0724-20100724_1_hottest-day-water-wedding.

So I ask you’ would you like to be remembered when you call your Heating and Air conditioning contractor for service. Remember when you call Around The Town Heating and Cooling we appreciate and need your business.

In the last 8 years we have not had a customer bounce a check or give us a declined credit card, and in my mind that says something about the personalized service we offer, and the quality of customer we have.

Over the years we have had big contractors laugh at our blogs and say they are stupid, how can an article be stupid if it comes from the heart and not from a paid service to write it?

Heating and air conditioning is a personable business, you the consumer invite unknown people into your homes and lives to bring comfort to you and knowing your contractor personally is comforting, wouldn’t you agree?

I believe size may make a difference but if you want personalized service small is better.

If you’re in need of air conditioning or heating service try the small guy and test the waters you will like what you get. Call 312-243-9896

Big Ed

Ps. If you call and we can’t tend to your needs don’t be offended, as much as we want your business and the opportunity to meet you sometimes we can’t handle the influx of calls, if your patient and would like our personal touch then by all means call.

 Bringing comfort to you!

Everyone is talking about Go Green and organic vegetables. Well a good way to get organic vegetable is to go to your local grocer and look for the tag that says organic, which is healthier because it doesn’t have any pesticides on them.

We here at Around the Town Heating and Cooling an Air Conditioning Repair Service HVAC company says a good way to Go Green and eat organic vegetables is to grow your own garden. If you have a backyard you can take a small section of it and prepare it for planting by rotor tilling it or turning over the soil with a spade. If you don’t have a yard you can get large flower pots and put garden soil in them and plant your seeds or plants.

In your garden you can select the vegetables that you and your family like to eat. With the way our weather has been acting these past few years growing your own organic garden to produce healthy vegetables comes easy without much maintenance.

If you live in a high rise building and have allowable access to your roof talk with your members of the association and see if they would allow green gardens in small trays and cover your entire roof, the experts have said that this type of gardening shields the roof and blocks direct sunlight which cuts down on heat penetration as well as and gives off good free oxygen which suppose to help the ozone.
New Yorkers have been doing these gardens on their roofs for years and have smorgasbords of fresh veggies year in and year out.
Last week I was on a air conditioning service call near Taylor street and a couple had a complete garden covering their roof and boy were the veggies growing wild, of course I had to taste a small lettuce leaf, tasty, spoils of the job”. If this idea sounds good to you then research this type of gardening over this coming winter and then come April start your garden, although wait until mid may to plant.

Around The Town Heating And Cooling Bring comfort to you for over twenty years Call today if you have any questions. 312-243-9896

Around the town HVAC can Help!

It seems that when every thing seems to be going alright a little mishap like your
air conditioning system leaking all on your floors and in the tenants unit below you starts the ball rolling in the opposite direction. No worries at Around The Town Heating and Cooling with one phone call We can change the direction of the roll of the ball in a positive direction. Put your worries in our hands,  we are here for you
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Think about the days of old when life was much simpler.

 Why does it seem that even though our society is so technologically advanced and yet we are more unhappy and dissatisfied with our lives?

People are always looking for happiness that seems to evade them. Some people are never satisfied with their life; they think that something is missing. They run around chasing happiness by either buying it, or chemically enhancing it. I wonder if we all could go back to a time like in our childhood when we lived simpler lives, maybe we would have the happiness we experienced as children.

Back in the day we didn’t have cell phones, so we were not distracted from enjoying life because we didn’t have them glued to our ear or texting every minute. There was no play station or xbox so we got outside in the summertime and hung with our friends and actually did physical things like ride bikes, play soft ball or swim. There was no cable tv or tivo , that has like a zillion channels so it’s another reason to keep you’re a$$ fused to the couch.

Here’s a novel concept: how about the family sitting together having supper. Remember that was a given back in the day. Families actual sat together for a meal and talked about their day. I believe life was simpler then and I believe we had fewer problems and were happier.

Let Around the Town Air Conditioning Service a Chicago HVAC company make your life a lot happier and simpler by letting us service all your A/C system and furnace  needs. We can provide cool comfort and warm winters for you and your family in your home or business.
Call Today to schedule your appointment Chicago 312-243-9896 or Suburbs 708-388-2247

If your looking for honest answers without a lenghty sales pitch call the comfort specialist of Around The Town Today!

Who’s the best heating and air conditioning company in the Chicago Land area? I would say our company Around The Town Heating and Cooling  I say that because I truly believe that!  Consumers disregard this next statement.

This statement is for those hvac companies that is so fixated on Around the town Heating and Cooling reading and watching our blogs. My presence on the web is only going to grow beyond your wildest imagination, you watch! I will not be threaten by any of the large hvac firms any more, Why does multi million dollar hvac corps feel so threatened by a  small company like ours?.” My company is small and reputable I will not be intimated, My presences will only grow and grow!!!! For those, this last statement applies to, I or our web team never look at your web sites or blogs and frankly we don’t care .

Remember any company that continuously grows and hires and train service and installation personal is helping our economy by employing workers. Here’s a thought for the consumers: Having every service or installation perfect and making every customer satisfied all the time will not always happen, if issues arise where you as a consumer are not totally satisfied you should notify the company of question and tell them your concerns so that if it was a fault of the technician or installer the company can improve on that concern. Without feedback from you the consumer’ we would not be able to make any improvements on that said concern. Some people right away bad rap  hvac companies without the company knowing why and without feed back, we cannot improve on that particular problem.

Home owners and their hvac equipment

Many questions have been asked by homeowners concerning maintenance on their furnace or air conditioning system.
Air conditioning and furnace systems are designed to provide very comfortable air conditioning and heating at reasonable energy consumption usages provided you follow these few simple steps.

Furnace filters, the furnace filter provides two services, 1. keeps dust and dirt out of your blower motor and squirrel cage of the blower motor as well as the evaporator coil, 2. Helps trap dust and dirt that continually travels throughout your home during the heating and cooling cycles. Furnace filters have become a big issue due to these manufactures selling these three month pleated filters, how’s that you may ask? The pleated filters restrict air flow when they are brand new, now coat them with dust and dirt and watch the problems that occur, 3. having your central air conditioning system and your furnace system cleaned and tuned up annually does make a difference on efficiencies as well as spotting potential problems that may be occurring. We suggest to our customers to buy the cheaper and less restricted furnace filters and check and change the filters monthly.

A common question asked when we are on a sales call is: “what is the best heating and air conditioning system? Manufactures of heating and air conditioning systems all claim  that their products are the best” Wouldn’t you say the same? Of course you would. It has been proven by us as well as other hvac companies that even the least expensive heating and air conditioning systems work great and give you 15 to 20 years of good service provided that the maintenance of the furnace and air conditioning have been performed annually.

 A machine of any sort will perform as it should with a little thing called maintenance, which we all know is a big thing. At some time or another you may have been told that a particular malfunction whether it be a car or your hvac system is or was caused by an excessive amount of dust or dirt or just a lack of care.If your looking for honest answers without a lenghty sales pitch call the comfort specialist of Around The Town Today! 312-243-9896 or Corporate at 708-388-2247

Bringing comfort to you!

More times than not it is to complain about the weather, it’s either too hot or it’s too cold.
According to most people Mother Nature just can’t get it right. We have so many modern advances in technology but the fact remains the same we just can’t control the weather. Yet we are still talking and complaining about the weather just like our parents, grandparents and great grandparents before us.

From the standpoint of a Chicago HVAC Contractor the weather sometimes can be your best friend or your worst enemy. When the temperature becomes really hot and the humidity reaches the unbearable point and you just can’t get any relief that is the time when an Air Conditioning Service and Repair company phones will begin ringing. The same scenario will happen when it is bitter cold and you need to keep warm.

That is why Around The Town An Air Conditioning Service Company understands the importance of having a properly operating A/C system. Summertime is a season for graduation parties, birthday parties, weddings, and all summertime festivities that are enjoyable to you and your family and friends.

Having a efficient running air conditioner providing comfort cooling will make all your occasions special. Our HVAC Service technicians can help you with any of your air conditioning problems and cooling issues, whether it be repairing or installing a  new a/c unit.

Give us a call today and you will see for yourself that we will do “whatever it takes” to provide you with the best HVAC service. Chicago 312- 243-9896 or Suburbs 708-388-2247
Keep a look out for the Big Green Machine!

Around The Town Heating and Cooling a Chicago Air Conditioning Repair contractor says let’s celebrate America’s Independence Day by keeping cool after watching those spectacular firework displays. Our great country America is built on the principal of liberty and equality for all.

Have you ever stopped to think how you are able to enjoy those freedoms and liberties? Our soldiers that have fought and died in many wars, like World War 1, World War 2, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and now the War in the Middle East. Whether you agree with reasons for those conflicts or not, remember those soldiers, young American men from many big cities and small towns all across American have fought and sacrificed their life for our freedom.

Many Chicago Air Conditioning Repair and Service Contractors also enjoy these freedoms especially freedom of speech. This allows for a lot of creativity in advertising. Where else but in the USA could you see this great competitive atmosphere.

Remember to look for the right Comfort Air Conditioning Service, Repair and Installation HVAC Contractor that will be the best fit for your air conditioning needs, whether your a/c system is blowing less than normal air and not properly cooling, or not working at all.

Around The Town Heating and Cooling an Chicago Air Conditioning Repair, Service and installation Contractor can provide service and many options for all your A /C system. Whether it’s for your home, mid rise, condo or office we will ensure that you have cool comfort.

Our motto is “Whatever it takes” and whether it’s your home, mid-rise, condo or office we will ensure that you and your family have cool comfort.
Give us a call today 312-243-9896 or 708-388-2247