Air Con Installer - Part 3

I've also gotten quotation from a few other companies, which I would briefly share here. The quotation is based on my specifications that I mentioned in my previous post (looked at the wordings in blue) and also requested for two trips installation. 

Please note that the pricing mentioned is only for reference purpose as companies may run promotion from times to times, so you may get a better or worse deal than what I've gotten. The points that I mentioned were based on what I've found out/understood and the decision to drop them was based on our evaluation criteria and experience while dealing with the various companies.

They are listed according in alphabetical order and not in any order of dislike.

1. Aircon Citi - $4,350

• They do provide free no obligation site survey.
• Dropped this company due to pricing not really that attractive. For this price, I would rather pay a bit more to engage more established companies. 

2. Cold Engine - $3,950

• They provide 2 years warranty for workmanship. Most installers provide only 1 year warranty for workmanship, so this seems attractive to us.
• They do provide free no obligation site survey.
• Scott, who is highly recommended based on a number of online comments that I saw, is no longer doing the installation himself. He now does mostly site survey.
• We did consider them when we decided to give up on the first installer that we choose to do the installation for our house. The pricing was comparable but they could not do a third trip for us without charging additional. Also, I asked if Scott would be the one doing the installation for us but was told that he can only do the site survey. The good reviews about Scott were on his installation, so we were not sure how the workmanship would be if he's not the one doing the installation. I feel that installation is much more important than the site survey because no matter how good the person can advise during site survey, ultimately it depends on the installers' skill to do a good installation job for you to minimise possible issue from happening. Of course, the person doing the site survey has to be experienced enough to provide sound and convincing advice; if he cannot convince you, you'll probably strike his company off the list. Hence, between this company and another company in the running of our second choice, we decided to go for the other company instead. I would write on a separate post why we gave up on the first installer of our choice and why we wanted a third trip.

3. Cool Serve - $4,590.30

• Supply and install 1 no. of Normal L or opening bracket, if any - $160.50
• $60 for site survey, which can be waived off at the final bill upon confirming order.
• Dropped this company due to high price and no free no obligation site survey.

4. Cool World - $4,230 

• We can request for a site survey if we confirm that we're engaging them.
• Dropped this company due to no free no obligation site survey.

5. Dynomatic - $4,500

• It was recommended by my ID, so the person came down with my ID for a free no obligation site survey. 
• Dropped this company due to high price.

6. Natural Cool - ???

• They do provide free no obligation site survey and we arranged for one. The person doing the site survey was late and did not inform us he would be late.
• They did not follow up with a quotation. I'm not going to bother chasing after quotation because to me, if a company doesn't follow up with a quotation automatically, it means they don't really care if they get your business and if the company isn't proactive during pre-sales, it left me wondering what will happen during post-sales.