worst case scenario with best possible outcome
At the peak of one of the most extreme heat waves in the history of our area, our ancient R\-12 system's condenser fan failed. I called Stans among others since one of their employees lives in the neighborhood and parks his wrapped company vehicle outside and thought, why not keep it local? They were able to see us almost immediately, which was fantastic since temperatures inside our house were hovering around 90. The initial technician who came by was just what I was hoping for\- he told me he'd be totally happy to try to help us source a replacement fan for our 26 year old Trane XR1200, but that there was a risk we'd be throwing good money after bad, and that our compressor sounded dicey. There was no hard sell, we just talked about how these things go. I asked how soon he felt they'd be able to put in a replacement system, and since the answer was "almost immediately", I asked them to go ahead. Will Downs stopped by, and it was obvious within a few minutes of speaking to him that I'd be really happy to work with him. I felt the quote would have been totally reasonable even if we hadn't been in an emergency, and they were able to get us an install date just two days later. We loved the guys who did the install, they were super fast (which was great because we were worried about them being up in our attic when it was in the hundreds outside), they really enjoyed each others company and answered all my random questions about how things worked. The new system is working perfectly. I'm going to replace our newer but still pretty old upstairs system in the next year or two and will get another Carrier system from Stan's, no sense fooling around.