Peavler AC & Heating

We had an awfully horrible experience with a new AC install several years ago (see Cool Breeze review… and listen to me throw angry punches in the air). Luckily we found Blake, owner of Peavler, a few years back and he helped nurse the sad system along until recently when it up and vomited in the yard. One unit was ‘stick a fork in it’ dead. Instead of throwing anymore $$ at this cursed sad system, we had Blake rip out everything. I burned a few smudge sticks and had a priest perform the exorcism after the removal. Blake knew my wife was picky, but I was pretty sure not to the degree — if the woman got sent to Hell and someone found a nice comfy chair for her to sit in, brought a table over, poured a tall glass of cool water, and pointed a fan in her general direction, she would be pissed there was no lemon slice in her glass. Ha! I thought, Blake you are in for a treat. Little did I realize the man is cut from the same cloth. He gave her a hard hat and called her ‘The Inspector’. What they installed was a thing of beauty. I started getting an ulcer thinking about the size of the bill. The Inspector was asking for (and getting) all sorts of extras. A two day job turned into 4 days. In the garage they even sheet rocked around the metal return air drop vents (Blake’s idea). And get this, they even moved the concrete slab away from the house to provide better air movement. We have dual zone AC’s, and the slab was over 6′ long & a foot thick, so it must have been over a 1,000 lbs. And he made sure the slab tilted slightly so rain would drain away from the house. Incredible. His final bill was more than reasonable — a few $ 100 over the original quote. We paid him about ~$ 2K more than the awfully horrible install of the sad Goodman AC system back in 2009, and this had a ½ ton upgrade on one of the units, and both are a couple seer higher, AND are Trane’s! Blake even rebuilt the air handler pedestal in the garage, insulated it, and sealed it. This man does not advertise — I can see why. It would be a waste of honest money. Blake is a rare find. I was convinced his kind went extinct long ago. May his gene pool increase.

My 4 bedroom house was not cooling properly (114 degrees outside) and I was worried that the AC had not been serviced in a year or 2 and I knew the AC unit was over 20 years old. My landlord first asked Blake from Peavler Cooling to call and follow up with me and set up an appointment to check the unit. Blake said he would call us back but did not respond to our phone calls for 3 days and when he finally showed up without calling he said «miracles do happen» and laughed. He said the unit was running 7 degrees to warm and was going to check it. After 20 minutes on my roof working on something and when he came down said the unit was working fine and didn’t do anything to it. He did not test the vent after he worked on it on the roof. After he was done he got into his truck without saying a word, just walked out and sat in his truck. When I asked him how old the unit was he stalled a said it’s not new. I asked him the year and was silent. I asked him if it was the original and Blake said no. So gave us no info and the unit is still running sluggish as before and doesn’t cool properly.
I think he was covering for the landlord by telling me the unit is fine and not telling me the last time it was serviced so the landlord does not have to pay for a new one. (he told me he has worked with our landlord for years.
After he avoided my questions he said very rudely «I have to get to other customers that really need me that have 110 degree houses. Even though we were told it was his last call of the day.
Very shady, rude and unprofessional service. I would not recommend Blake or Peavler Cooling to anybody trying to stay cool this Summer.