About HVACMatch
HVACMatch (hvacmatchusa.com) is a referral service for homeowners whose furnace, boiler, heat pump or air conditioner needs work. You tell us the job and the ZIP code, and we pass the request to one independent heating and cooling company that has asked to receive work there.
What we are, and what we are not
We are not an HVAC contractor: we employ no technicians, hold no mechanical contractor license, set no prices and answer for no one's work. Nor do we claim that any company we send a request to is licensed, insured or bonded, so ask for its license number and check it with your state's licensing board before the work starts.
The company receiving your request pays us for it, and that is the whole business model; the how it works page walks through the details.
Why we write state by state, and cover heat and cooling together
Mechanical licensing is a state matter with local enforcement, and codes, permits and prices differ from one state to the next. A page that gets one of those wrong costs a reader money, so each state gets its own pages, written from that state's own sources, and we open one state at a time.
Furnaces, boilers and heat pumps share a site with air conditioners because the same company usually does both. The city pages use U.S. Census data for housing age, and each city's permit office and utilities where we could find them. A page says so when it came up empty.
Why the cost ranges say estimate
We have collected no customer quotes, so the ranges are a model: published national cost ranges adjusted by Michigan's technician wage ratio, plus a typical permit fee for work that needs one. None of it is a price list, and beside the estimate each page shows federal wage data, permit fees from city schedules we could read and federal energy-cost evidence. We are collecting the prices companies publish on their own sites. The editorial policy explains how the estimates are built and when they are re-checked.
Editorial standards
Every guide lists its sources, and a fact we could not source is left out. Mechanical code and permit rules change, so check with your local building department and your state's licensing board before relying on any summary here. Read the editorial policy, and tell us if you find a mistake.