In the Heat of Summer if your Home Air Condititioner breaks make sure who you are calling for help. If you look in the Yellow pages of Austin and call around you will find that Hanks Service is the Cheapest ($45) for any time service call; but do not count on that, after you place the call a Guy named Joe will appear on your door step riding on a $50,000 truck.
It does'nt matter what is the problem (even if the circuit break is off) he will come up with a $900 fix. This happened not only to me but my friend as well. At first he told me that the entire condenser unit is bad and will cost me aroud 2600$ to replace but he admitted that the compressor was good so I asked him what is needed to fix it then he come up with a bad fan motor which will cost me $500 and a freon leak that will cost me additinal $400. It was almost 9:30 Pm, I did not want to stay in hot so I told him to just fix the leak and recharge for $400.
Later I asked a AC technician and learned that the Freon replacement shoud not cost more than $100 at most in after hour and the leak was problaly a fake. After the work was done he charged me $450 for the work that could be done in less than 30 minute. Few days later the same guy appeared on my friends house, luckly my friend called me and ask my advice since the Joe was asking $670 to replace the fan motor (which actually cost only $60 parts).
My friend told him not to replace it and leave but he demanded $110 or would call the Sheriff if he do not pay. My friend was mad but he is a peacefull guy so he paid him $110 even thoug the service call was $45. I think this Joe, Petrocelli and the Hanks Service are ripping people.
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