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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Tingley Home Services. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$5,000 – $11,400
Typical HVAC project around $8,200
Tingley Home Services is a Milford company doing both electrical and HVAC work — panel upgrades, outlet and fixture installation, generator estimates, furnace and heat pump replacement, AC service — with an A+ Better Business Bureau grade and a 4.8★ average across 495 Google ratings. The company's earliest written reviews, mostly from 2021, describe consistently strong service: technicians (Liam, Kyle, Jason and others come up by name repeatedly) explained the work clearly, showed up fast for emergencies, and left jobs clean. One 2021 review recounts a technician reaching a fallen power line at a customer's father's house within 30 minutes and coordinating with the town inspector and utility to restore power in under two hours. Starting around 2022, though, a different and recurring theme shows up in the written record: pricing. Several reviews across 2022, 2023 and 2024 independently describe the same pattern — a paid dispatch fee ($89-$99) charged just to get an on-site quote, technicians who "started upselling right away," and final invoices that came in well above what customers expected once they compared the parts cost to what was billed. One 2023 review calculated a roughly $120 breaker charged at about $385; another paid $1,376 for a two-light-fixture job where the crew reused old parts on one of the fixtures. The most serious account, from early 2024, describes a whole-home HVAC installation that stalled for ten weeks with an open trench in the yard after a failed gas-line inspection, which the reviewer says Tingley let sit rather than pay a re-inspection fee. Not every recent account is negative — a late-2024 Angi review describes a Mitsubishi heat pump swap finished cleanly in a single day despite a last-minute change in unit placement — but the pricing and upselling complaints recur often enough, from enough different customers, to be a real pattern rather than a one-off. The written review activity itself has gone quiet since that late-2024 review. This is a company whose technicians are consistently described as skilled and its emergency response as fast, but the record is clear that pricing transparency has been a repeated sticking point: get the itemized quote in writing before work starts, ask directly what the dispatch fee covers, and don't be afraid to decline add-on suggestions on the spot.
“I noticed that you didn't discuss any of the traditional home services companies like Rodenheiser, Tingley, or ARS.”
Tingley installed our new Mitsubishi heat pump, including removing our aging furnace and a/c units. The work was done in one day, despite a midstream change of course when the location had to be changed. The team who provided the service was polite, professional, efficient, friendly, and seemingly tireless. I would not hesitate to hire them again and to recommend them to anyone needing HVAC services.
I called to find out a price for electrical work. Nope, no free estimates. Pay $99 for them to drive out and price the job. And if I don't like the price, I paid $99 for just to get a quote. No thanks. I am sure they do great work. But they don't want you to price check them. No thanks! Be aware.
Had to update my review now that it was done. The technicians were nice but i paid $1376.35 for the replacement of two light of which I bought one and the other they used all the old parts?? Can’t wait for the detailed bill on this one. Unfortunate.
Do not use this company for HVAC work! Working with Tingley to install a new HVAC system has been a nightmare. They started the project in early fall. The inspector came to look at the gas line they installed to the house and failed it because of something minute. That started a 10 week delay during which we had a large trench open on our yard because, we later came to find out, Tingley was refusing to pay the re inspection fee. So now it’s late November, and that’s all sorted so the work begins. When the technician showed up to do the work, he told us we’d lose heat and hot water for the duration of the work (2-3 days). Never once was that mentioned to us previously, something made extra frustrating by the fact that there was a seemingly avoidable 10 week delay that pushed it into the winter. We have a 1 year old baby and it was miserable trying to keep her warm and not being able to do bedtime baths. Fast forward 3 months and now it’s late January and the boiler broke last night, and we are again without heat and hot water, with a brand new HVAC system. Tingley doesn’t have any technicians available for emergency repairs on Sunday, so we are without heat until tomorrow. There’s so much more to complain about but my fingers are too cold to keep typing. 2 stars because every individual we have worked with has been pleasant, it’s the outcomes that have been absolutely miserable.
Installing an AFCI breaker is not required by code when you’re simply replacing outlet. Would have been more honest if you said hey I think it’s safer if you do. $385 for breaker and $90 per 15v outlet was the cost for those that care to know.
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