Hey guys before we get to the video, please click that subscribe button, hey guys, joshua griffin, air serving the middle peninsula and the northern neck, and i am on my way home right now shout out to the blue ridge mountains wearing my blue ridge shirt today, where I grew up, but anyway i wanted to do a video on some misconceptions that i hate in our business uh in the hvac business. If you've never seen one of my videos before i just wanted to kind of touch on. You know a few different things that we hear periodically it's some misinformation that i'm not sure where it comes from, because i can give you direct examples of why it's not true, and so i just want to kind of you - know, brainstorm kind of throw out a Few of those misconceptions and tell you why they're misconceptions so the first one is i've heard people say this before it's something that may have been a little more true years ago, but it's no longer the truth, and that is if you've ever heard quote something to The effect of quote all heating and air systems are basically the same guts or the same brain. If you will it's the same stuff under the hood with different christmas wrapping, you know different paint different.

You know it's just it's the same stuff, just different outside components. You know the wrapping, if you will - and you know again that may have been a little more true years ago. Maybe they were all you know. A lot of the big manufacturers were installing the same sort of compressors and using the same sorts of technology.

Things like that, but that is not the case anymore. There is definitive differences, proprietary technologies, that a lot of these companies own or at least, are very good at in comparison to other companies, and so you know this. This idea that well they're. Basically, all the same thing, but they they're all just wrapped differently.

That is just not the case anymore. So if someone says that to you, you have a contractor or another homeowner or someone that is just trying to give you advice, and they say that to you. I can assure you that that is not the case, that there are definitive differences between a lot of not just the brands but the models that they offer. There's a difference and you should ask whoever your contractor is.

You should ask them, you know what is different. Why do you sell what you sell? That's a great question to ask and they should be able to just rattle off give you a 10 second commercial on why they just do sell what they sell. I think that uh, you know if they can't do that, then that might be a little bit of a red flag. I've said in multiple videos and i'll say it again: uh there is no.

In my opinion, there is no one company there's no one hvac manufacturer, that is the best in every market um. I truly believe that i believe the market that i'm in what i'm selling is the best or i wouldn't be selling it. But you know when you're talking about the infrastructure, meaning the support, the parts, the warranties, the there's so much that goes into it, the supplier and then the contractor themselves. You know that all plays a role in which system you should select.

So, just because a certain system makes sense in my market, it may not make sense in your market. There may not even be a supplier that sells that brand in your market, and it would be silly for you to install that brand in your market. Same goes. Vice versa, for us i can think of at least one or two brands that it's it's hard to get a hold of their products, their parts, their equipment in our market in comparison to you know other ones.

So that's what i mean by that there's! No one brand, that's the best in every market. You know you got to find out what makes sense for you. So that is the first misconception that we do here still hear it from time to time. I still hear it misconception number two i've heard this said before, and i don't hear it as much because of you know things like the internet and people being more informed, have helped with this, and that is, you should not put all your trust or all your Eggs in one basket when it comes to uh, you know picking out the brand or the model or the the equipment itself when you're deciding what's best for your home.

I've heard it said before, and i agree that it does not necessarily matter as much which brand you select or model. It really plays a bigger role on the contractor that you select and how good of a job they do and how you know thorough their installations are i'll. Give you a good example i'll tell you a little story. I had a guy help us out part-time years ago and he had been working for one of the bigger companies in our area.

He had been working there for a while, probably two three years and he came work to work with us, and you know just something very simple to us: it's something that we do on every install, it's common knowledge, there's other youtube, videos and other people talking about The necessity of flowing an inert gas through the line sets when they're brazing, like nitrogen there's, been videos done on that. You should check those out what it does on the inside of the pipe, and you know the black scaling oxidation that you know that it does again. I think there's lots of different things, but that's that's one in particular, so we had this guy that was working with us. He had been working with a you know, a bigger company in the area and we pulled out our nitrogen tank because we were ready to.

You know flow the nitrogen through the lancets, and he didn't even know what it was. We're talking about a journeyman, very close to being a master technician, he had years of experience and he didn't even know what we were doing. He had never seen someone flow nitrogen. So that told me all those systems, sorry for the bouncy screen by the way uh, but that just told me that all those systems, all the equipment that he had ever installed had all been installed incorrectly, and so that was just that's just one story.

I could tell you there's lots of stories, there's lots of things. You know that affect that, and you know how do you know if someone did a good job or not or does a good job or not? I think you just got you got to do some homework. You got to find out who's good who's. Not i wish i i tell you.

I talked to my wife about this all the time i wish there was a way that we could say to a customer when we're in their house. I don't care. If you go with me or not, i don't care what brand you select do not use that company, the company that we're bidding against, because i can tell you hundreds of horror stories, but you know they don't know they don't know me they don't. You know there's a trust factor there.

There's there's a lot of variables that go into it and you know they don't even know if i were to say something like that, if i'm being totally truthful misconception number three and this one, i'm probably the most passionate about, because i have heard other heating and Air companies say something to the effect of it's not necessary for you to do proper maintenance or cleaning the coils or whatever i've actually heard other heating and air companies say this to me. I have friends that work for other companies. We just get the chat and this and that, and they say that it is not necessary for a customer to do proper, tune-ups or maintenance to their system, and i've got a hundred different arguments against that. But i'll just focus on this.

First of all, you would not buy a car, or maybe you would, but you should not buy a car expect it to be. You know 100 covered under warranty and never do any maintenance. You never change the oil in it. You never do all the things that you're supposed to do to keep the system or the car running at peak performance.

You wouldn't do that, but yet we see folks all the time that they'll go years without a proper maintenance done to their system. Proper, tune-up checkup. Whatever you want to call it, i think that a proper maintenance or tune-up at bare minimum should involve you know, cleaning the system making the coils as new as possible. Again, you know checking refrigerant levels treating the drains so that to inhibit any clogging things like that.

You know. I think those are all like bare minimums. You know, that's that's stuff, that we're gon na do on every single system. You should have your heat exchanger checked.

Every year, if you have a furnace things like that, you know these are not just uh performance issues. These are safety issues in some cases, especially when you're talking about the heat, exchanger sort of like this. If you, if you're thinking well, you know i've been told or i i think that you know a system's working, just fine, you know it doesn't it doesn't need to be maintained or clean. That's just a gimmick whatever and you know i'll say this air conditioners or heat pumps.

You know they're kind of like a vacuum cleaner. If you've ever covered the end of a vacuum you know and and how much louder and harder it has to work. Air conditioners are the same way. That's why you're supposed to replace your filter periodically, let that system breathe, let it operate like it's supposed to, and my last thing i'll say about that is: i have done service calls, so someone's called me and said: hey.

I need my ac fix, it's not working and we go out and the the only repair that needed to be done was a maintenance. It just needed the coils to be clean and everything to be. You know cleaned up and uh, so it can breathe and operate correctly and that fixed the issue. I didn't even have to go any any more than that.

I didn't have to replace a part that had failed. It was just that so if you've got somebody telling you that, then they again, i in my opinion they are wrong. I think that your maintenance on your system, whether it's us or someone else, i think it's definitely a necessity. If you're in our market, we'd love to earn your business, give griffin air, mr griffin air, give griffin air a call if you're not in our coverage area, and you are in the market for a new heating and air system.

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