How Can I Find a Professional?

DanHolohan

It's based on the huge techincal content of the site, and the enormous amount of daily visitors.

Dave Ewald

Anyone here do work in Limerick, Pennsylvania?

OK, I've decided I can't do it myself, in part because I don't have professional testing equipment for flue gasses and CO. So I call a company, and ask about what they do when they do their annual service. Their Bacharach is broke and oil-fired equipment doesn't cause CO problems, so they don't test. Yes, I know Dan has "Find a Professional", but the nearest is Pompetti, and I can't believe he'd come out to Limerick to do annual service on an oil-fired boiler and electric heat pump/central air. Both systems aren't working right, though. The heat pump blows its internal fuse, and the oil burner keeps running even 10 degrees above the thermostat setting, and even with the thermostat disconnected. Hot water is a separate electric unit. I do want to be there and ask questions while the work is being done, and find a technician who won't be annoyed by it. The heat pump and boiler are entirely separate, with separate thermostats. I was hoping to find someone during what I thought would be the slow season, so they'd be more patient and have time to be thorough.

DanHolohan

Isn't it amazing

that more professionals don't get listed. It's free for three months and yet they still won't take the time.

I'm constantly amazed by this.

We're NUMBER ONE in Google under "HEATING SYSTEMS."

Garret

Limerick?

I can't help you find a contractor, and I'm sorry if I take your thread off-topic.

But if that's the same Limerick, about 15 years ago, back in college, I blew the water pump on my ole Pontiac on the way to a job interview in Philly.... had to wander down a steep embankement and step over a little creek, all in my best suit and shiny shoes, to the nearest town -- Limerick. I think it was 100 degrees out too, and I had no a/c in the pontiac. Some kind soul offered me a coke and a phone to call a tow truck. Didn't want the job anyway, so it worked out okay.

Patchogue Phil_29

Number one ranking

Hi Dan

What did you do to get that number one ranking? Did you pay a fee to google?

Phil

Dave Ewald

No, I'm not Dan's Shill

Just thought that I'd add it's a Weil McLain 268 v boiler, hot water, with a Beckett AFG burner, one Taco circulator and a Honeywell 8124 A,C Aquastat. The heat pump is Peerless by name, if not nature. I really do want to find someone to work on these. If I don't get any takers here, I suppose I'll call some other folks from the yellow pages, and ask a few questions. Thanks.

DanHolohan

In the Land of the Blind,

the One-Eyed-Man is King.

Dan Foley

F-A-P

Just sold a commercial steam boiler replacement for $66k. They got my name from this site. That should pay for a few F-A-P renewals! -DF

To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"

Stuart Oglesby

Suggestion

Maybe try Geiger in Collegeville. I was getting quotes over the winter in case our 28 yr. old boiler went out. We haven't had any work done by them due to lack of funds, but they were
the only ones to come out and _really_ look over our system and listen to what we had to say. Can't vouch for much beyond that unfortunately. But like I said, they listened at least.

Stuart

DanHolohan

You, sir,

use both eyes.

D107

Heating help is also #1 at MSN.com and #5 at Yahoo

and #3 AND 4 at optonline.net, #4 AND #5 at Netscape.

I'd add that those contractors who don't take an ad for themselves are hurting the cause of raising the bar out there. I believe that the "wally way" is followed by less than 10% of the pros out there, and that sorely needs to increase. Plus many of the homeowners who come to the site expecting to find a tremendous dbase of wallies in 50 states won't be happy when they have to go to the yellow pages and get what they can get. This is all not to mention the economic incentives for pros to place ads.

Thanks,

David

DanHolohan

And the ad is FREE for the first three months.

That's how much I believe in this, and what's going on with Google right now.

I think that contractors who don't see this really don't have a grasp on where business is going, and how local people are buying nowadays.

I can build it, but I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Home Depot gets it. They PAY to have their ad above HeatingHelp.com in those search engines. And so does Sears. You guys could be there for FREE.

In the Land of the Blind. . .

DanHolohan

And if you

LOOK right below our listing you'll see who also gets it.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.