Originally Posted by
timebuilder
Since I'm not texting my response from my dumb phone, I'll extend my remarks.
I'm sure that there are many great, skilled, and ethical residential guys working in the trade. Many of them are Pro members here.
That said, the business model does not reward technical expertise in residential, because the rewards are commission based, and there is no incentive to diagnose and repair when your Co can have two guys show up the next day to install a brand new system. There is a big Co advertising on the Philly stations who talks about how many trucks he has, and how fast he can install a new system in cold weather.
Not a word about how fast a broken system can be repaired. That is not his mindset.
If you want young guys who are smart to enter this trade, then you have to figure out how to reward those smarts, otherwise, the trade will become populated with BS'ers. More so than it already is today.