I think Everlast said Chestermere plumbing and heating went back to and merged with Fagnan's plumbing and heating. I also went with them, but the timing didn't work out exactly. I went with someone else and it's been OK, but I kinda wished I waited and made the effort to go with Chestermere. Kyle wanted to go with the better approach, the dudes I went with did the more effective approach. In hindsight, even though my current system works relatively fine, Chestermere's approach would have been more streamlined and more visually appealing + more future proof in doing it the more complex way, but having everything on the same side of the house vs having stuff on different sides of the house. IMO, in hind sight, it's not worth the few grand in savings. I'll probably be dropping a wad of cash to getting it sorted out and making it nicer in about 5-8 years so I'm not tripping all over it or having the sounds I can hear around the house. I wouldn't have needed to do that if I didn't try to save a few Gs up front (to be fair, tight cash flow and restricted schedule at the time).
IMO, if you do any utility room work, if there's anything that is a few years out from needing to be addressed, consider doing it all at once (ie: Water heater, water softener, AC etc.).
IIRC, Everlast also said that there's a new type of AC coil that's amazing. If your AC coil is older, it might be worth asking if it's possible to swap it to the new style coil while everything is opened up, the team is on site and everything is a mess anyways.
Also, I think I recall Everlast said that the newer Ecobee smart thermostats have the ability to share diagnostic data. He said he knows someone who showed him that if the data was shared with him, basically he knows when and how a system went down, so that he can pre-prep his team before you even call and/or use the diagnostic data to suggest certain work before the system goes down at an inopportune time.
Smart thermostat wise, if you don't have a 4+ wire bundle at each thermostat, make sure to request it so your thermostats have the wire bundles and are hard wired/future proofed. Those C-wire adapter kits suck balls and occasionally take a while to respond if the house gets cold. Waste of money and I think it cost me like $300. I wish I could have paid incrementally more to get it done right.
Lastly, when I spoke with Everlast, he mentioned that HE furnaces unlike <medium efficiency furnaces are supposed to have the fans on on all the time to avoid damage to the fans. I'll be getting him to see if there's any issue with the fans in a little bit. I don't know if it's related but he said that there's ways where new furnaces can suddenly die if not maintained in a certain way. Heat gets trapped and melts down the control boards on brand new furnaces and stuff or something?
This might be something to be aware of and you may want to look into solutions earlier if you someone in the household who is sensitive to sounds of the fans at night time if fans will always be on vs on and off.
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