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Are You Hiring the Best HVAC Company?

When you need heating or cooling services, you generally need them fast. You don’t want to be left sweating on a hot, humid August afternoon or shivering in the dead of winter. To ensure you get the best services, you need a great company. How do you find the best?

To that end, the team at Arctic Air Conditioning has compiled a list of tips for hiring a reputable HVAC company you can count on. If you live in Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, or Ocean County, New Jersey, contact the experts at Arctic Air Conditioning—or keep reading to learn more!

How to Find a Good HVAC Contractor

Installing a new furnace, air conditioner, or heat pump—or replacing a failing one—is a big investment. It can cost a good amount of money, so you want to make sure the job gets done right and that you’re hiring a great company. We recommend doing research.

Find not one or two but a handful of companies in your area and check for the following (either online or by calling):

  • Licenses, bonds, and insurance – This is probably the most important component—a must-have when it comes to finding the right HVAC company! Unless they are licensed, bonded, and insured, don’t hire them. You don’t want anything to do with a company that can’t provide you their licensing, bonding, and insurance information because it could leave you liable for injuries and cost you a lot more in the long run. We are licensed (# 13VH01741400) and insured—call us to ask more!
  • Customer reviews – Reviews are the best way to get honest feedback about a company. Don’t be afraid to ask for testimonials or references. Find out what other clients have to say and what their experience was with the company. Look for a testimonials page on their website—and check sites like Google Plus, Yelp, Angie’s List, etc. Check out what people have said about our services!
  • Accreditations – Who knows the ins and outs of heating and cooling better than the manufacturers that produce the equipment? If a company is accredited by manufacturers, that’s a great sign. At Arctic Air Conditioning, not only are we accredited by a manufacturer, we are a Dave Lennox Premier Dealer and have won the Dave Lennox Award, received by only the Top 25 out of 7,500 dealers in North America, multiple times.
  • Awards and recognitions – The best HVAC companies are award-winning and recognized by the industry and consumers. At Arctic Air Conditioning we have received numerous awards.

One other thing to think about is the price. Saving money is something we all want to do, of course, but if a company is offering you a price way above or way below the average rate, this is a red flag. Although getting a low price on your AC service sounds great, when a company’s price is a lot lower than their competitors’ prices, it sometimes means that they are cutting corners somewhere and you could get less than exemplary service.

Schedule a Consultation with Arctic Air Conditioning

The brutal temperatures may soon be behind us, but before you get ready to turn on your air conditioner for the summer and look online for the cheapest companies, keep these tips in mind.

At Arctic Air Conditioning, we think we stack up among the best companies in New Jersey, but we’ll let our testimonials do the talking! Call 732-518-8215 or fill out the form in the sidebar and find out why families throughout Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, and Ocean counties have been relying on us for nearly 40 years.

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