Tired of getting 3 HVAC quotes that all rip you off?

Angi and HomeAdvisor charge contractors for leads — sometimes hundreds of dollars per lead — and let them pay for top placement. That cost gets baked into your quote. iHVAC charges contractors nothing. No lead fees, no paid placement, no commission on jobs won. We never touch the money between you and the tech. The contractors you see are the closest matches on credentials and service area, not the ones with the biggest ad budget.

Each tech submits their bid through iHVAC without seeing what any other tech offered. They have no way to undercut a competitor because they cannot see the competition. The result: each bid reflects what that tech actually wants to charge for the job, not a number engineered to land one dollar under someone else. You see all bids side-by-side once the bid window closes.

You pay the tech directly. iHVAC is not in the money flow — we do not invoice, escrow, process payment, or take a cut of the transaction. The agreement is between you and the contractor you select. iHVAC is the matching and credentialing layer; the job and the payment are not iHVAC's transactions to mediate.

Before a tech can bid, we verify their insurance certificate (AI-read on upload, with admin spot-checks), capture their license number and license state, and require them to sign attestations covering scope of work, compliance, and indemnification. We do not run criminal background checks, and we do not warrant a tech's workmanship, safety record, or conduct on site — that responsibility sits with the contractor, as it does in any direct hire. The structure that protects you is sealed bids, on-file insurance, line-item pricing, and a ratings system that only verified property owners can post to.

Walk away. There is no obligation to accept any bid, no cancellation fee, and no penalty for posting a job and choosing not to proceed. The market median we show you alongside the bids is there precisely so you can tell when something is off — and if all three bids look wrong for the scope, that is useful market information on its own.

Nothing today. Property owners pay $0 for iHVAC access — no lead fees, no commission, no subscription. If we introduce a portfolio-management fee for new accounts down the road, existing members keep the terms they signed up under. No introductory rate, no asterisk, no auto-conversion.

Yes — new construction is a job kind inside the same sealed-bid flow, not a separate product. Post the spec (plans, tonnage, line-set runs, equipment preferences) as a new-construction install, set a longer bid window — the default is seven days for spec work — and independent techs price the whole package. Builders get the same structure property managers get: sealed numbers, a market median to judge them against, and no general-contractor markup sitting between the work and the price.

We are seeding contractor supply market-by-market. If you post a job in a market where we do not yet have credentialed techs in your zone, you will hear back from us directly — we will either route the job to the nearest qualified contractor we can source, or tell you straight that we are not ready in your area yet. No silent dead-ends.

Insurance-verified techs in your service zone are notified the moment your job posts. First bids typically arrive within a few hours; the standard bid window is 72 hours, and you can shorten it to 24 hours if the job is urgent. Emergency posts ping techs immediately and surface in their feed at the top.