Response from SULLIVAN PLUMBING
I do apologize that our company must charge the $49 service call to perform bids. The $49 covers our technicians time to drive to your home and give a accurate estimate of the project. This takes longer than five minutes. We pay our technicians to go out an give professional estimates. We pay for the fuel and maintenance on the service truck that allows our technician to give you a estimate. All we ask is that you pay part of our overhead to get you the estimate. If we get the work,GREAT, we will deduct the $49 dollars from the bill. If you decide to keep looking around that is fine to, but we must recover some of our cost for the time that was spent. Can you imagine if we had eight customers in a row want free estimates? That would be an average of 45 minutes and fuel for every estimate, times eight...that means we have just paid 6 hours of a technicians time plus the fuel used, etc. with no means of recovering those costs. That is just not good business. Again, I apologize for the $49 cost, but we feel it is a fair price.