You're paying for:
- Trade licensing fees
- Liability insurance
- Medical insurance
- A vehicle to move equipment around
- Vehicle insurance
- Tools to complete the job
- The time taken to drive to your residence
- The time taken for the quote itself
- The expertise required to correctly spec/quote equipment
- The tradesperson driving to the city office
- The tradesperson applying AND paying for a city permit to do the work
- The tradesperson driving to a supply house
- Purchasing the equipment on credit
- Transporting the equipment back to your house
- Ripping out and disposing the old equipment (if applicable)
- The time and expertise to install the equipment correctly
- The time vacuum out the lineset
- The time charge the equipment properly with refrigerant
- The time commission the system and make sure it's running properly
- The tradesperson driving BACK to the customer house to be present for a city inspection
- Trade licensing fees
- Liability insurance
- Medical insurance
- A vehicle to move equipment around
- Vehicle insurance
- Tools to complete the job
- The time taken to drive to your residence
- The time taken for the quote itself
- The expertise required to correctly spec/quote equipment
- The tradesperson driving to the city office
- The tradesperson applying AND paying for a city permit to do the work
- The tradesperson driving to a supply house
- Purchasing the equipment on credit
- Transporting the equipment back to your house
- Ripping out and disposing the old equipment (if applicable)
- The time and expertise to install the equipment correctly
- The time vacuum out the lineset
- The time charge the equipment properly with refrigerant
- The time commission the system and make sure it's running properly
- The tradesperson driving BACK to the customer house to be present for a city inspection