01Heating
The figure is the figure
The price is agreed before a tool comes out of the van, and it does not move because the job took longer than we thought.
NORTHDRAFT
HEATING · AIR · DUCT
Flat-rate HVAC service
Heating and air,
quoted by the job.
- Pricing
- FLAT RATE · NO HOURLY
- Booking window
- SAME-DAY — TBD
Residential and light commercial. Furnaces, mini-splits and ductwork — priced from a printed card before the work starts.
No clock on the wall
Section 02 — Pricing model
02Air
Diagnosis is a line, not a meter
You are charged for finding the fault once. Nobody is paid by the minute to keep looking at it.
03
Parts are quoted, not absorbed
Parts are listed separately at what they cost us plus a stated margin. No bundled figure you cannot take apart.
Figures on this site are illustrative — see the rate card below.
Section 03 — Rate card
Priced by the job
These figures are illustrative. NORTHDRAFT is a fictional brand and does not trade; the card shows how a flat-rate price list is laid out, not what any real company charges.
| Job | Flat rate |
|---|---|
| Diagnostic visitFull system check, fault named in writing, figure quoted before any work. | $129 |
| Furnace serviceBurners, heat exchanger, flue draught, filter, safety test. | $189 |
| Mini-split serviceCoil clean, drain flush, refrigerant charge check, filters. | $215 |
| Capacitor or contactor replacementPart, labour and post-repair run test. Part listed on the invoice. | $265 |
| Duct seal, per runMastic seal at joints and takeoffs, static pressure re-read. | $340 |
| System replacement surveyLoad calculation, duct assessment, written options. Credited against the install. | No charge |
Get this job quoted
Out-of-hours and access-restricted work carries a stated addition, agreed before the visit.
Furnaces, splits, duct
Gas and electric heat, ducted and ductless cooling, and the metalwork between them. If a system is outside what we carry on the van, we say so on the call rather than at the door.
Section 05 — Procedure
Four steps, one price
- 01
You describe the fault
A phone call or the form below. We ask what the system is doing, not what you think is broken.
- 02
We name the job on the card
The visit is booked against a line on the rate card, so the figure is known before anybody drives out.
- 03
Diagnosis, in writing
The fault is found once and written down, with the part named and the repair figure alongside it.
- 04
You approve, then we work
Nothing is fitted until the figure is agreed. The invoice matches the card, line for line.
What moves the figure: restricted access, a part nobody stocks, or a second fault found once the first is cleared. Each is re-quoted before it is started.
Section 06 — The crew
The people who show up
Small crew, own van each, no subcontracted call-outs. The person who quotes the job is the person who does it.
- Founded
- TBD
- Licence no.
- TBD
- Insured
- TBD
- Service radius
- TBD
Every value above reads TBD on purpose. This is a template for a fictional company — a plausible licence number here would be an invented credential, so the buyer fills these in with real ones.
Fig. 04 — ceiling diffuser, where the air arrives
Section 07 — Questions
Straight answers
Nothing, to you. The figure on the card is the figure on the invoice. A job that runs long is our estimating problem, which is the whole argument for pricing this way.
On the illustrative card above, the diagnostic is its own line and the replacement survey is not charged. A real operator sets that policy themselves — this template does not invent one for them.
One system, one fault, one visit. A second fault found after the first is cleared is quoted as its own line before any further work starts.
Labour and the stated part are included where a line names one. Anything else is listed separately at cost plus a stated margin, on the same invoice.
Out-of-hours work carries a stated addition, agreed on the call before the visit is booked. It is never applied afterwards.
That is the point of a printed card. The visit is booked against a named line, so the figure is known before anyone drives anywhere.
- Covered — booked from the card
- Outside — travel line quoted first
Section 08 — Coverage
Where we drive
The schematic is a diagram, not a map. NORTHDRAFT is fictional, so the zones below are illustrative names rather than real places — a drawing of a real city here would imply a territory that does not exist.
- Zone A — city core
- Same-day window
- Zone B — north ring
- Same-day window
- Zone C — west valley
- Next-day window
- Zone D — outlying
- Travel line added, quoted first
Section 09 — Metalwork
Most faults are duct faults
A system sized right and ducted wrong behaves like a system that is broken. Static pressure gets read before anything is condemned, and the reading goes on the same sheet as the price.
Trunks, takeoffs, spiral and the transitions between them. Duct sealing is a line on the rate card rather than an upsell at the door, and the common parts ride on the van so a routine repair is one visit rather than two.
Fig. 01 — spiral runs · Fig. 02 — supply trunks
Section 10 — Enquiry
Tell us the job
Describe what the system is doing and we will name the line on the rate card it falls under, with the figure, before anything is booked.
This form is part of a template demonstration: it has no endpoint and sends nothing to anybody.