I used the $25 Groupon to have Hartman inspect one of my two AC units. The tech seemed to do a good job inspecting although he failed to put the Air Filter back after inspecting... \r
After the inspection, he told me the unit was low on Freon (410a) and that it would be $189 to put any Freon in it. He could not tell me how low it was, so I told him I thought $189 was a lot of money for 1 pound of Freon ... and maybe that is all that it needed. He said that it was flat rate price of $189 for 1 to 5 pounds (capacity of the unit).\r
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The other companies in my area would charge $75 for a service call then $40 for the first pound of Freon and $25 for each subsequent pound.\r
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I would have assumed that Hartman was already out on the service call and should have a most been charging $140 (for 5 pounds of Freon). It bugged me that they just had a flat rate and probably should only have bee charging around $40 for a pound of Freon... the going rate for the area.\r
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