appliance repair, electrician, heating & air conditioning/hvac, lighting, central vacuum cleaners
 + 3 moreIt went great. See above.
Description of Work: I looked on Angie's list because we needed the coils cleaned in an AC unit in the attic and we needed a couple of more electrical outlets installed in our home office. I saw that Mark Babin did both. So I called him. Mark installed the outlets in the office and cleaned the coils. Now I knew I had other AC issues, because our office is in our converted garage attached to the house, it's alway hot in there, even though I had the thermostat set to 68, but the office would be at 80, and the rest of the house was 75. But I didn't tell Mark about any of that, because it was winter, and I figured that was just how it was. I had had other AC guys come out (Alan Watts...who we paid $35K to to install 3 new units upstairs and put in new ductwork, plus two other AC guys after that). Well, Mark took it upon himself to look at the ductwork, and the ductwork was leaking cold air into the attic, small pipes were split and spliced into big pipes and the air just could not full up,the space because of the amateurish job done previously. Mark came down and told us what he saw, and told us what he could do to fix this. No one we ever had come out before wanted to diagnose the problem, fix the problem, etc. We didn't know what the problem was,actually, till Mark told us. Mark is a great explainer of AC stuff. To shorten my already long story, my house is cold, I have more accessible attic space, storage space, and he also took it upon himself to learn about central vacuums and fixed mine! It works better than when we had it installed by the manufacturer rep. ( They didnt install or vent it properly and all the vacuum crud was blowing into my attic,,thus needing to get the coils cleaned.) Mark is a smart guy, a self starter, a great explainer of things, and an all around nice guy. Out of all the people that I have had come to do various work on my house, Mark is the best one of them all. So, he installed some lights for me, put in outlets, fixed two can lights in the ceiling that never worked ( and no other electrician could get to work), re- did several hundreds of feet of ductwork and fixed the central vacuum, got ductwork off the floor of the attic and put it where it belonged. We have a geo-thermal/ heat pump system in our house, and he took part of the house off the geo-thermal and installed a Conventional Trane for the biggest part of the house. He learned about geo-thermal systems too. He was at our house for 2-3 weeks. Smart guy. It started as something small, but I am delighted to have made his acquaintance. He didn't come down from the attic and was all pushy and was trying to sell us on something, like...you need to do this. He was like...do you know you have another problem up there, and proceeded to explain what the problem was.