This Markham area hvac business is rated 1.4 from 234 reviews with a TrustScore of 1.0. Services offered include hvac, water heater installation and plumbing work. Read their reviews, ask about license and insurance information, and request a quote.
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My god, what kind of service is this? We have no hot water since last night. We called last night and were told to call back this morning. We called this morning and waited 3.5 hours for the technician to arrive. He came and told us that the tank has to be replaced and that we have to agree to a new rental rate which is 50% higher than our current rate. We refused the replacement and they said that they do not have the replacement part for our current tank and they need to order it. I called customer service and spoke with two supervisors and they told me that i have to wait for another supervisor to call back- up to 48 hours. This is the most horrible company that i have dealt with. We have been renting and paying the rental fee for 17 years and this is our first time calling for service and this is how we were treated. One more important thing that i forgot to mention. The serviceman broke something that set off the CO detector and he turned around and told us that the part broke a long time ago. I am still waiting for the call back. This is the most horrible company.
I would give 0 stars! Enercare does not care! This company has no heart, no soul and no manners. Been out of hot water since friday. Have 3 young kids, and one being a 9 month old, and we havent had any hot water and today is sunday. Every person I talk to gives different stories.
Friday - called had no help and given appointment for saturday 8pm-12am bc i had few showings in Bancroft.
Saturday- rush from Bancroft 3 hr drive and no one showed but left message that they resceduled me for sunday 9-1pm. called in and was told that they will call me back to confirm appointment for sunday but no called.
Sunday- no one showed or called so again im on phone waiting, probably spent more than 8 hours these few days on phone. Now I am told that i have to take day off work to wait for them again for monday morning 9-1pm. I make sure they get their money and yet they leave me and my family completely stranded with no hot water in the winter.
One person told me that my tank is 2002 and another told me its 2005. They really have no idea what is going on. The supervisor is completely incompetent and they really truely have no heart and have no soul here. Go else where. Karma is a gonna bite them if this is how they treat their fellow canadians.
Summary: Enercare technician (Dan - didn’t want to supply his family name) came into our house for the yearly furnace cleaning, and forced us to waste $5,000+tax. How ? By declaring dangerous our perfectly functional old furnace. Why ? Because since one decade ago we kept paying monthly to Enercare for the “PROTECTION” Plan, so they were liable for fixing it. But they didn’t want to fix an old furnace, even if we had paid for those future repairs. So they declared it dangerous (without doing any emissions testing), and red flagged it to Enbridge.
Conclusion: if you pay monthly for the Enercare “Protection” Plan, they will disable your furnace before it starts breaking, so they won’t have to honor their repairs promise.
If you have patience to read this long post (which I advise, given that this is the ONLY review about Enercare you ever need to read), the sequence of events follows:
_ we booked the yearly furnace cleaning.
_ the cleaning technician (Dan - didn’t want to supply his family name) stated that the heat exchanger had holes in it (that was not true), and red flagged the furnace (so shut it off, in the middle of the winter). He said that the heat exchanger is so bad that if he puts his screwdriver on it, the screwdriver will go through (at the end of this post I attached the heat exchanger pictures I later took - I can’t even see traces of corrosion on it).
_ Dan refused to do emissions testing, stating that him seeing the holes (which I couldn’t see on his fancy video camera) were enough for red flagging our furnace.
_ Dan mentioned that the “Heating Protection Plan” we were paying monthly since about one decade ago ($27 per month) covers any furnace repairs (parts and labour), but DOESN’T cover heat exchanger repairs (this is a component inside the furnace). So we have to buy a new furnace.
_ Dan booked an appointment for us with his colleague, Don Peters (Enercare salesman), to quote us a price for a brand spanking new furnace.
_ Dan refused to assemble back our old furnace (he left it with components hanging out), and left.
_ after sleeping one night at close to freezing temperatures, the next day I got a new furnace installed by a local company (for $5,000+tax).
_ these new guys showed me our old furnace disassembled on our driveway. We all looked at its heat exchanger, and none of us could see any holes in it. I took pictures of it.
_ the incredible thing is that after all this, I called Enercare and asked them to stop billing me for the “Heating Protection Plan” (because it didn’t protect me neither against heat exchanger repairs, nor against Enercare technicians). The Enercare customer service person told me that my plan automatically renewed one month ago, so they will keep billing me for 11 more months till the plan will expire !!!
_ I called Enbridge and asked them to stop including Enercare charges on my Enbridge bill. They told me to stop paying the Enercare portion of my Enbridge bill.
Conclusion: don’t give $1 to Enercare. Especially don’t buy the Enercare “protection” plan, because that plan is an incentive for Enercare to destroy your old furnace. They will do it on your yearly furnace cleaning appointment.
Interesting comparison: all this story is like you would own an old car, perfectly functional, and the insurance company would come to your driveway and set it on fire, just because they don’t want to insure it anymore. Then they would offer to sell a new car to you. And by the way, you would have to keep paying 11 more months if insurance prime on the burnt-out old car. Because the insurance on it renewed automatically ...
We subscribe to Enercare's annual furnace and air condition maintenance checkup and tune-up plan. We've been with them for a few years, since they were Direct Energy Home Services in both Mississauga and at our new home in Carlisle.
We enjoy the peace of mind knowing that our equipment is protected should anything happen.
So far so good...
Enercare Home Services has a TrustScore™ of 1.0. The average TrustScore™ for other businesses providing similar services in Markham and the surrounding areas is 2.7. For detailed information on how TrustScore is calculated, click here to learn more.
The following elements are used to calculate TrustScore:
Customer Reviews | Last 12 Months | All Time |
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Total Received | 12 | 315 |
Approved | 11 | 234 |
Unverified | 1 | 80 |
Suspicious | 0 | 1 |
Overall Rating | 1.9/5 | 1.4/5 |
Complaints Received | Last 12 Months | Last 3 Years |
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Suppliers & Creditors | 0 | 0 |
Employees & Sub-Contractors | 0 | 0 |
Transparency | |
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Posted License Information | Not yet provided |
Posted Liability Insurance | Not yet provided |
Posted Workers Compensation | Not yet provided |
Company Website | Yes |
Social Media Profiles | |
Endorsed by Peers | Not yet endorsed |
In Business Since | |
Member of TrustedPros Since | 2016 |
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This Markham area hvac business is rated 1.4 from 234 reviews with a TrustScore of 1.0. Services offered include hvac, water heater installation and plumbing work. Read their reviews, ask about license and insurance information, and request a quote.
Main contact(s) | Kasey Bennett |
Affiliations or other locations: | Enercare / North York |
Listed with TrustedPros since: | 2016 |
Residential work | Yes |
Commercial work | Yes |
Warranty | Warranty details not yet provided |
Accepts credit cards | Yes |
Year established | |
Offers financing | Yes |
24 Hour emergency service | Yes |
Legal structure | |
Licensing information | Contact Enercare Home Services to request licensing info. |
Insurance information | Contact Enercare Home Services to request insurance details. |
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