04/07/2026
Honesty & integrity. Two words that often get thrown around in an attempt to gain trust. Speaking these words is the easy part. Following through with your actions is the only way to say for certain that you are indeed an individual living by both principles. Not only do we, as a company, operate day to day in a manner that we are more than comfortable stating meet the definition of both spoken words. But our employees also conduct themselves on our projects with both honesty and integrity. We wouldn't want it any other way. Here's a great example of this.
👉 Image #1 is an email Melissa sent to one of our "new-ish" customers. We recently started servicing a handful of her properties, when she asked us for an estimate to replace a boiler and hot water tank in a property we had not yet serviced. This is the email sent along with the estimate.
👉Image #2 is her response.
👉Image #3 is our response to the unsettling information she provided
We will say this, the heating system in question is a very common manufacturer, every part that could fail on her boiler is in stock on our service vans. This tells us that the "service person" who made this recommendation certainly did not make an honest recommendation. Considering everything appeared to be in good working order, why advise your customer to invest thousands (sometimes more than ten, or even twenty thousand dollars) into replacing their ENTIRE heating system? The only answer has absolutely nothing to do with integrity or respectful business practices.
As Melissa says in her response, we're all for profit businesses. Profit is not a bad word, nor is it a big secret. There's a difference between making an honest and fair profit and having questionable sales practices.
We have been in business a very long time. We have never had to make unneeded repairs or make unnecessary recommendations to generate revenue. We have always generated enough revenue to stay in business, pay our employees, vendors and other obligations and make a fair profit doing necessary and needed work. We do not follow a business model that promotes unwarranted, expensive services or repairs.
If something doesn't sound right, it's probably not. Get a 2nd opinion.