Quality Home Comfort Awards
A Perfect '10'
Super-insulated homes can present a unique set of challenges for HVAC contractors. But the home of Paul Collins in Sheffield, MA, boasts a comfort system tuned and tailored to its specific needs, thanks to Jim Patterson and Orchard Valley Heating and Cooling. The home netted Patterson his 10th Contracting Business Quality Home Comfort Award....
HVAC Team Gives a Gift of Comfort
Among the many ways HVAC contractors find satisfaction is through the daily opportunities they have to enrich customers’ lives through quality home comfort. Greg Miscally, project manager at Environmental Air Conditioning Services, Inc., Jacksonville, FL, company founder Howard Stalls, and the engineers at Indoor Environmental Solutions, Inc. are no exception. They have an overwhelming concern for the customer, and they won’t let up until every project is perfect....
Designing Quality IS an Art Form
The Quality Home Comfort Awards provide an opportunity for contractors to show off their best designs to the rest of the industry. To do this requires an effort, yes, but it’s worth it for the recognition and market value it adds to their firms. ...
How a Team Builds Home Comfort
This winning Quality Home Comfort Award project demonstrates what can be accomplished when a team bonds together in pursuit of a common comfort goal, and when participants take full ownership of a project. ...
Marsh Madness
The system that Hickmann, Comfort Matters’ president, and Jon Burfeind, home comfort expert, envisioned for the McPhails incorporated a 5-ton geothermal system backed up by a 95% efficient variable-speed gas furnace. It also included an energy recovery ventilator, humidifier, and zoning system. ...
HVAC System Savior
Into everyone's life a little rain must fall. However, just as "April showers bring May flowers," sometimes going through difficult times can make one appreciate good times all the more. That's what often happens for homeowners who work with Jim Patterson and his sons, who collectively comprise Orchard Valley Heating and Cooling in Southampton, MA. As the company's nine Quality Home Comfort Awards over the years attest, Patterson knows his stuff when it comes to designing and installing superior quality home comfort systems. ...
Show Me State Showplace
Sigman Heating and Air Conditioning/Sigman Indoor Climate Solutions LLC is no stranger to the Quality Home Comfort Awards. Perennial winners, Sigman is known for its ability to land some of the largest and most interesting residential projects in St. Louis area — or anywhere in the U.S., for that matter....
Quality Comfort Toughs It Out!
Our 2010 Quality Home Comfort Award winners gave their best to these projects, which represent their best work for homes in a wide range of sizes and descriptions. ...
From Covered Wagons toTotal Comfort
Some HVAC contractors might feel a little pressure being called upon to design and install a comfort system in the newly constructed home of a certified home energy rater. That wasn’t the case for Eric Kjelshus, owner of Eric Kjelshus Energy, Greenwood, MO. In fact, one the reasons home-owner Amy Walker selected her long-time friend Kjelshus for the job is because he had proven his knowledge of superior HVAC design by teaching classes for Walker and other energy raters in the Kansas City area. ...
Flying High Thanks to a Flier
Corey Hickmann, president of Comfort Matters Heating & Cooling, Hanover, MN, knew that his young company had a commitment to quality and customer satisfaction that would enable it to handle even the most demanding customers' comfort needs in the challenging weather extremes of the North Star State. But it was a simple flier sent in the mail that started the ball rolling on the company's first Quality Home Comfort Award....
The Case of the Reluctant Customer
Sometimes it doesn’t take an exotic system in a high-end, new home to earn recognition from the Quality Home Comfort Award judges. Sometimes all it takes is providing air conditioning to someone who never had it before, and is convinced she doesn’t need it or want it. ...
One for the History Books
Four years ago, Sigman Heating and Air Conditioning had designed and installed a Quality Home Comfort Award-winning comfort system for homeowner Steve Lanter. That system featured radiant heating, snow melt, water heating, and pool heating, all powered by a geothermal system. ...
Fruit of the Orchard
Jim Patterson says he’s “just doing his thing.” That’s good news for his customers, because Patterson’s “thing” is designing and installing the highest quality indoor comfort systems. ...
Blockbuster!
When it comes to creating and installing an award-winning comfort system in a very high-end home, it takes a great supporting cast of characters. Fortunately, Russ Donnici, founder and president of Mechanical Air Service, Inc., San Jose, CA, has that cast at his second generation, family-owned business. ...
Quality Home Comfort Awards
There are certain HVAC contractors known for their creative design and installation practices, quality workmanship, attention to detail, and commitment...
2002 Quality Home Comfort Awards - A Winning Season
The Quality Home Comfort Awards (QHCA) provide an opportunity for contractors to display excellence in design and installation quality to the rest of...
