B.M.C./Clower Heating & Air
Brookville, Silver Spring, MD

B.M.C./Clower Heating & Air Reviews

3.8 stars based on 17 reviews

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  Robert Bacon

  1.0

  Because of their careless actions our house flooded after they refused in the winter to come turn on the heat after their install. Pipes froze and magically on the morning they finally agreed to come mysteriously water incident the morning of. Not professional, they pretend to be nice at first be careful.

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  Mea Rhee

  1.0

  I had a 5 zone mini-split system installed by BMC/Clower in July 2020. It worked perfectly through the end of last summer. When I turned it on for the first time this spring, it was not blowing cold air. I called them for service. The technician said that the refrigerant had all leaked out. He refilled it, then said that I needed to wait a month before the leak can be located. (I now know that this isn’t true.) I asked if the next appointment would be automatically scheduled for me or did I need to call their office again? And he said “you need to call us.” A month later, I called and as soon as I said my name, the person said “oh sorry we haven’t scheduled your next appointment yet!” (doesn’t match what the technician said) “We’ve been so busy! But we expect to do your job Thursday or Friday of this week.” When I called again on that Friday, ”we’re still so busy! It won’t be this week.” I called again 1.5 weeks later, and was told “one of our techs has been out this week. We’ll get to your job next week!” I called again two weeks later, a different person answered the phone and said “the person you need to speak to can’t come to the phone right now. Can she call you back?” She didn’t, and that was a week ago. I’m using a lot of exclamation points because these people are very oily. I decided that if their reasons were legitimate, they wouldn’t be handling it like this. I asked a second HVAC contractor for a consultation. I explained the whole situation, and he said that finding a leak in a 5 zone system could potentially be a very labor intensive job. His company would send a two-person crew ($250/hour) and it could take an entire day. About $2000. He speculated that BMC/Clower is trying to avoid having to do this job for free, as I am still under a 1 year warranty for their labor. In hindsight, before the installation, the owner said it would be done in two days. In reality it took three entire days. The crew worked diligently the whole time. The extra day didn’t seem like a big deal at the time, but now I wonder if the owner has a habit of scheduling unrealistic turnarounds. Which would mean the crews are always behind schedule, and working under time pressure. This would explain why they did a less than thorough job, and can’t find time for the all the problems they need to go back and fix. Right now, the AC still works. The leak is small enough that it will probably be next spring before I need it fixed. I’m going to budget $2000 so I can hire the other contractor to repair the leak. I wouldn’t trust BMC/Clower to do the repair now, even if they wanted to do it for free.

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  PB Environmental

  1.0

  Great technician, but rude and condescending receptionist. The tech came out because someone already in my neighborhood canceled. We agreed to a last minute appointment. He could not hear or find anything wrong with the system. We paid the $98 diagnosis fee without the diagnosis. We were asked to record the night noise and reschedule. I tried to reschedule and the receptionist told me that they will still charge me another $98 because "when you go to a car repair and they can't hear a noise that you brought the car in for, you still have to pay". Um, no I don't and have never heard of that logic. I also own a business and would never treat a customer like that. So I would spend almost $200 without any work being done on the heating system. Taking my business elsewhere.

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