Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
The common thread is contracting licenses nationwide (except for one state which I will get to later)
specify
1) Installation
2) repair or
3)modification as being the point where a license is required.
We don't do either of those three. We just clean.
I thought California would be the strictest, but I was wrong. Of the seven states I listed earlier with possible licensing problems for Air Duct Cleaners I found that we are ok for sure in California and Arizona.
I haven't been able to reach Texas, Michigan, Arkansas, or Georgia yet, but I suspect they will be just like California and Arizona based on the fact that a preliminary search of duct cleaners that also clean coils resulted in a slew of duct cleaners without contractor licenses.
Now, FLORIDA......Three calls to the Florida license gestapo resulted in these three answers:
1) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
2) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
3) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
WHAT A CROCK!
A few more calls to duct cleaners that advertise coil cleaning produced the following conclusion....
IT APPEARS that you have to be licensed in some capacity to do HVAC maintenance in Florida to clean coils
I know you don't have to be licensed in ANY of those states to clean or change filters. (I have a business relationship with a company that changes filters all over the south including Georgia and Florida and they are NOT required to have contractor licenses for that.)
I still have to verify Georgia, Texas, Arkansas and Michigan though.
Hang in there.
specify
1) Installation
2) repair or
3)modification as being the point where a license is required.
We don't do either of those three. We just clean.
I thought California would be the strictest, but I was wrong. Of the seven states I listed earlier with possible licensing problems for Air Duct Cleaners I found that we are ok for sure in California and Arizona.
I haven't been able to reach Texas, Michigan, Arkansas, or Georgia yet, but I suspect they will be just like California and Arizona based on the fact that a preliminary search of duct cleaners that also clean coils resulted in a slew of duct cleaners without contractor licenses.
Now, FLORIDA......Three calls to the Florida license gestapo resulted in these three answers:
1) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
2) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
3) We cannot verify any license requirements other than what is posted on the website, call an attorney to advise you.
WHAT A CROCK!
A few more calls to duct cleaners that advertise coil cleaning produced the following conclusion....
IT APPEARS that you have to be licensed in some capacity to do HVAC maintenance in Florida to clean coils
I know you don't have to be licensed in ANY of those states to clean or change filters. (I have a business relationship with a company that changes filters all over the south including Georgia and Florida and they are NOT required to have contractor licenses for that.)
I still have to verify Georgia, Texas, Arkansas and Michigan though.
Hang in there.