Furnace Aid

Furnace Aid is awesome! Skip is a great guy and knows his stuff! I will always use Skip! Go, go, go!

Skip repaired a slow gas leak in the crawlspace about 5 years ago. Then I bumped into the pipes while working in the crawlspace, and noticed it leaked again. Perhaps caused by the bump, or perhaps not. Anyway, I called him and he came that evening, probably after closing store. He repaired the pipes again. I crawled around and found two additional slow leaks using a gas detector — my gas pipes must be falling apart. He fixed those as well — basically disassembled the pipes and reassembled them with pipe dope added. When he left, he didn’t charge me a penny! He said it’s because he did the previous repair. Anyone who is willing to stand behind his work like Skip did is worth recommending.

We contacted Skip on a Saturday afternoon after our AC decided to stop working on the hottest day of the year. I had tried calling everyone on Unilocal leaving voice messages or being told getting someone to come out on short notice was impossible. Skip was at our house within 2 hours and fixed the problem. Thank you Skip!

You know you have a keeper when a tradesman shows up on time, knowing full well that you know nothing about his trade, and proceeds to make some tweaks, and leaves within 30 minutes without charging you a dime because he felt he didn’t earn it.
I mean, holy cow, what the heck was that all about? Talk about leaving money on the table. I’ve not seen integrity like this since, well, my handyman Al Coil, but I guess I’ve been lucky.
10 years later, I am still using Skip. In that time, he has changed my furnace, and helped me troubleshoot issues over the phone at no cost.
Integrity. What a refreshing twist.

Our furnace stopped working (and it was very cold yesterday). I called Skip and he came to our house ealier than expected. Skip spent some time to identify the problem (again it was very cold in the garage) and fixed it! He doesn’t talk too much, but he is honest, smart and helpful. The price is fair. I would say he saved us from bigger trouble. Thank you Skip and happy new year!

I spoke to Skip at Furnace Aid and he was able to identify the issue on the phone. He said it was the oxygen sensor, which was turning off after 4 seconds due to being dirty. He told me to clean the sensor and it worked! The furnace fired right up! The service call was not needed with his advice :) Thanks a million Skip! Happy Holidays!

The furnace was not turning on and I checked Unilocal to find someone. Skip came and found that kids had turn the switch off. He did not charge us and was very polite about it. Last contractor I had used for some work from Unique Contracting Services, who didn’t show up twice and when I had called him up to check, he talked poorly, using language like, ’ sh** happens you know.’. and such. Not sure if something was going on in his life/​work but nobody had talked to me like that and I just never hired him again. Surely going to use Furnace aid in future.

I first met Skip close to 20 years ago when my furnace would not work. I had him come out a few times over the years and he was always on time and the very up front and honest with assessing the problem and showing me what needed to be fixed.
I moved into a new house about 12 years ago, well this morning no heat, I tried everything I could but no go. I called Skip on a Saturday and thankfully he only lives about 5 minutes from me and could come right over. He pulled the igniter and showed me where it had failed. He had it fixed up in no time as he had the part in his work van.
I highly recommend this guy!!!

We have called Skip a few times for our problem child furnace. He is punctual and charges a fair price.
Our furnace died again this winter and it was due to a part that failed that Skip had replaced in with the last 1.5 years. Not happy.
There were other issues that were under warranty. Skip had mentioned in his last visit that our brand of furance has a defective part and it would cost $ 1000 to fix it. We would be better off just buying a new furnace. What he didn’t mention is that the reason it would cost so much because he is not a dealer of that brand. Not full disclosure. We called someone else because he wasn’t available and that is how we discovered the reason for the price discrepancy.

After waking up to a cold house and an unresponsive thermostat this morning, I called Skip at Furnace Aid on a friend’s recommendation. After talking to Skip about the symptoms, he guessed at the problem but I told him I didn’t think that was it for a variety of reasons. Despite a busy schedule he was able to stop by this afternoon, and sure enough his initial diagnosis was spot on. He got the furnace working again and was on his way in under an hour, and charged a very fair price for the service.
I would definitely recommend Furnace Aid, and will be calling them myself the next time I need service.

I called Furnace Aid when Bob’s told me that an EMERGENCY service would be $ 300! or I could wait until Sunday. Skip called back and patiently walked me all of the reset switches and we’re up and running and my wife is no longer freezing and that’s the important thing!

Our furnace went out unexpectedly in our new house. After waiting for one contractor for hours, we finally gave up and we found Skip’s phone number. It was almost 9 o’clock at night and Skip showed up in 15 minutes. He fixed the problem. And on top of that, when we asked him to help us look at the gas fireplace. He did it without any hesitation and any extra charge. We have his phone number plugged into our phones and we’ll call him in no time!

Great guy, came to my house on a Saturday, and was fast and honest. Will call him again next time I need Furnace help!

We received a recommendation from our realtor over 10 years ago. We had just purchased a home that needed the furnace replaced. We scheduled the replacement. Unfortunately we had a bad storm and the power was out. Skip showed up and placed the furnace via a flashlight! We’ve continued to use and refer him to our friends and neighbors. He is very reasonable and honest. Our neighbor recently called another popular Eastside heating company. They told her she needed a new furnace at the cost of a few thousand dollars. I had her call Skip. He replaced a part and her cost was only $ 350. What more can I say?

My 83 year old mother in law called me in a panic because her furnace quit working. I called Skip and he was there in 30 minutes!
He quickly realized that she had done «something» to the complicated (even for me) thermostat settings. He quickly set things right. He inspected the inner workings of the furnace and said all was working fine.
He refused to take any money for his time and trouble.
People like Skip are hard to find and you can call him with confidence!

Skip is fabulous and has helped us out of a jam more than once. He never over charges and is honest in what he can and can’t do.

Skip did an excellent job getting our furnace up and running. He is a skilled and creative troubleshooter, and put his full concentration on getting our heat back on.
He is a conscientious tradesman, and I will be calling him again if I ever have furnace problems.
Call him. You’ll be glad you did.

I’m only giving Skip 4 stars because he couldn’t fix my furnace problem. Apparently for warranty situations he isn’t a dealer and can’t get paid on some of those situations from the manufacturer… but I can understand why he wouldn’t want to work for free.
He recently came out to help me with a furnace problem, and i was expecting to pay his service call fee. $ 135 I think they said on the phone. Skip arrived about 5 minutes early and investigated and asked me questions for about 45 minutes until he found the problem. In the end he did not charge me anything.
Nice guy, and he won’t charge you an arm and a leg like *some* other places.
I will be using Skip again should I ever have furnace problems again.

I called Skip after asking our neighborhood handyman who he would recommend. AM I GLAD I DID. Back story… my furnace is 21 years old and it has been doing odd things of late, so I called three other companies who both service and install furnaces. All THREE told me I needed to replace it. I figured that makes sense. Skip shows up and tells me he could replace a few parts and my furnace would be fine. He said the model I have, he has seen last as long as 40 years!!! So instead of paying in the neighborhood of 2500 to 3500 dollars I will go with a repair of about $ 600!!! Can you believe it? To make it even better, Skip said he was so confident, my furnace would be fine, he wrote on my estimate that if the furnace failed he would credit the parts ($ 450) against the price of my new furnace.
Thank you Skip. In an age where honesty and integrity is almost non existent in the home contracting industry, you are a gem. After you repair my furnace I will update my post and I’m sending your contact information to everyone in my email contact list and posting on FaceBook. Skip, you may have to drive a little further than Issaquah to handle all the new business you are going to get.
December 14, 2011… Update…Skip installed my new hot water tank and replaced the parts in my furnace as promised! The furnace is working great and the hot water tank install was perfect. What a great guy! Quick, efficient and reasonably priced. Thank you Skip. I’ll be posting a review to my FB page and emailing your information to all my contacts. I’ll see you next year for my annual furnace servicing. Thank you!

In a world where you assume that service people will take adavantage and tell you that you need repairs that you do not need — when my furnace stopped working, I braced myself for the worst.
My wife new of Skip @ Furnace Aid in Issaquah — all I can say is that Skip is Amazing!!! A throwback to the day when service people were honest, ethical and knew how to get things done.
Skip — extracted the motor, oiled it, reinstalled and had the furnace working in about 20 minutes start to finish!!!
Highly recommended and I will definately (cross the fingers to not have to) call him directly again when we have furnace issues.
Highly recommended, you will not be dissapointed!