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Chemo
The company I work at is fixed cost for nearly everything, but once you get a permit involved and inspections it is extremely difficult to get a cookie cutter cost since every home is different. Literally the smallest thing like a broken meter bar can be the difference between 6k and 16K in cost.
I am not saying that once you see a job, you cannot give a ton of options to cover everything but preset options for Installations is not possible. We have tried forever but there are too many variables; the suburbs are much easier than the city.

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lkrshacmzcy | 3 years and 9 months ago

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^ THIS!
I really wish people would understand this point from Jane. I say this with respect but how I see Mechanical Work is always like this:
Installing is easy and can be cheap
Installing correctly is hard and can be expensive
Servicing (especially High End or Complex systems) is harder and can be more expensive
Servicing Correctly (especially High End or Complex system) is the hardest, can take a lot of time, can take even longer for parts and is usually the most expensive aspect.
If I had a dollar for every time I have heard “but my Baxi Luna unit only costs $3,000 dollars brand new” on a unit incorrectly installed illegally in a bedroom behind a washer-dryer….

Guest User | 3 years and 9 months ago

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Agree with you Chris…. Remember when you couldn’t get baxi parts when marathon stopped distributing them. Lasted something like a year

lkrshacmzcy | 3 years and 9 months ago

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Back when they were under Marathon!

BklnRefugee | 3 years and 9 months ago

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Spot on. My “green” solar thermal system that is integrated with a high tech condensing boiler and thermal storage system has in 8 years gone through 3 circulating pumps, half a dozen igniter kits and has required enough tech trips in their big vans (this is at a vacation house) to probably have burned more fossil fuel than the system has saved.

lkrshacmzcy | 3 years and 9 months ago

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And depending on your unit, those repairs could be costly. If you have a Smart Pump, that replacement cost is hard enough to swallow by itself!

chemosphere | 3 years and 9 months ago

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those of you in the know: It would be really great if there was a buyer’s guide to NYC attached house heating/cooling options. Do it the way wire cutter recommends a washing machine: budget pick, all-around pick, pick if money is no object.

chemosphere | 3 years and 9 months ago

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put prices on everything. Why is everyone so afraid to put prices on things. Make it a range if you must.

Guest User | 3 years and 9 months ago

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Chemo…. i honestly don’t now know the cost of this system, since I was brought in after the original system designer/installer died….. but you are looking at 50-$60,000 worth of equipment on the entire job, so you can take it from there…