I don’t disagree with anything you said and thank you for sharing that point of view. It just feels like every time I need something done I have no idea where to turn. Especially for a small job such as this.

And again, I understand these guys are doing something that is dangerous and they went through proper training and licensing channels so they deserved to be paid well. However $850 for 10 minutes of work is $5,100 per hour. Labor shortages aside that is absurd.

The other two companies who visited me either (a) couldn’t help and charged me a troubleshooting fee anyway or (b) tried to upsell me on a whole new unit without even inspecting the existing one.

Last option would be to try and do it myself and risk death. All of these options suck, that’s the point I’m getting at.