Steve Rappaport

Review of Vigilante Plumbing Heating and...

I don t usually write reviews online but I feel co...

I don t usually write reviews online but I feel compelled to write one about my recent experience with Vigilante Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning. I have owned a house in Park Slope for thirty years and during that time I have hired carpenters, roofers, plumbers, and other craftspeople to do work on my house, but I have never had an experience like the one I had recently with Vigilante.

I needed to replace my thirty-year-old furnace, and I thought about replacing it with two furnaces since I have a two-family house. Will Vassallo, the service manager, came out to do an estimate. Two other companies from which I got estimates stopped by, took a few measurements, and emailed me an estimate. Will spent about 45 minutes at my house, carefully evaluating and explaining the various options, and because installing a dual-zone heating system in a 130-year-old brownstone is complicated, he came back a second time with Sal Vigilante - the owner of the business! - just to make sure that everything was right.

In the end, I decided just to replace the single furnace. Since it was March and still cold, I was concerned about getting the job done in a single day, but Will guaranteed that they would do just that - and they did: the crew arrived on time, and got the job done by 5 PM! The two men were friendly, answered all of my questions, were respectful of my house (they wear booties over their shoes so they don t soil floors), and when the job was done, they carefully explained the new wireless thermostat, double-checked the electrical wiring, cleaned the site thoroughly, and made certain that everything worked perfectly before they left.

As I said, of the many craftspeople I have hired over the past thirty years to do work in my house, Vigilante Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning was by far the most professional. I recommend them highly!