The Hidden Cost of Lowball HVAC

Cool Talk with Hartzell's | Your HVAC Questions, Answered! · Sep 17, 2026 · 21m · transcript

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DAVE: A lady in Kingfisher called me last month with a system that quit in the middle of that stretch where we didn't drop below 78 at night. Another company had already been out and handed her a replacement quote. I looked at it, found a bad capacitor and a fan motor that had been screaming for a year, and fixed it for about six hundred dollars. She's still running that unit today. Here's the part that surprises people: that was not the cheap option. That was the right-sized option.

I'm Dave Hartzell at Hartzell's Heat & Air in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. 47 years in the trade…