Gillece Plumbing Heating Cooling & Electrical

Seems to be a common theme with. Two scheduled appointments for some electrical work & two no shows.
After reading other reviews, looks like I am better off they didn’t show up.
I would stay away.

I wish it would let you rate «0» stars because that is what they deserve. The technician acted like our best friend but he was nothing but a scam artist. They must get some sort of kickback? Came to look at our AC unit. Was going to charge almost $ 1000 to repair, which is what a new unit would have cost. Then he looked at our furnace for some reason. Red tagged it and said we needed a new one. Needless to say, we got a second opinion and never called them back. I don’t know how these people sleep at night? I would NEVER recommend this company to anyone!

Only giving one star so helpers can see review. Absolute scam company. Charged my near elderly mother 900 dollars for a sensor light with a switch and an outlet. Two people were here for 2 hours, I bought the sensor light before, the only thing they provided was 6 feet of wire, a switch, an outlet and a couple screws. If I was an electrician who worked for this company I would be ashamed to charge such enormous amount of money for such little time and effort. Clearly Mr. Gillece is fine with becoming rich and «successful» by stepping on his neighborhood and taking advantage of people.

Terrible all around. Hired them to snake or main sewage line. The plumber came, snaked the line and left a pile of shitty toilet paper next to the main trap in the house on the floor. He then recommended that we have someone come and run a camera down our line for free to make sure it wasn’t damaged. The employee was in our basement for no less than five minutes only to return upstairs to inform us that the only solution was a $ 15,000 job. We asked if we could call him later to discuss and the employee informed us that nobody from the company would be returning to the house. I don’t believe he even attempted to cam the line. The next day we received a notification from the health department which I believe to have been out of spite. Don’t give these guys the time of day or your money. They are con artists.

We woke up to a cold house and found the furnace blowing cold air. We saw a Gillece truck and decided to give them a call about inspecting and possibly repairing the furnace. A repairman arrived shortly after and checked the furnace for a $ 95 service call. He presented us with a list of options and prices: Repair for $ 517, Restore for $ 2300 or Replace which required a visit from the salesman. All options were very vague in terms of what work was actually going to be done. Since we had no idea what a new furnace would cost, we wanted to get estimates.
At 8pm, the salesman arrived and checked the furnace. He found many things wrong with the existing furnace and informed us it wasn’t worth repairing. He also told us the coil above the furnace needed to be replaced which ran $ 850. Unbeknownst to us the coil is for the A/​C unit and not related to the furnace!
We started talking numbers and we were told it would run anywhere from $ 6,300-$ 9,900 for a new furnace depending on the efficiency. When asked about providing literature regarding this expensive purchase, we were told to look online. After using aggressive scare tactics and offering financing options, he realized he wasn’t going to get us to bite. We felt pressured and uncomfortable with the lack of information and just a list of unexplained prices. The salesman wanted to have a team at our house that night to replace the existing furnace. He left advising us that if we changed our minds, we could still get a $ 500 discount if we called by the following day.
The next day, a local heating company came for a second opinion and to inspect the furnace for an $ 85 service fee. He showed us the broken igniter that the Gillece guy had already removed and explained that was the problem. The replacement fee was $ 36 for a grand total of $ 132 to fix the furnace! The local guy estimated a new furnace would run $ 3,000 which coincides with the research we did online.
I would not go by Gillece’s word. At the very least, they were attempting to overcharge us for a simple repair and tried to scare us into buying a new furnace and coil that was not related to the problem at hand. I’m glad we learned the hard way for the cost of a $ 95 service fee instead of thousands for a furnace we didn’t need yet! They were aggressive and rude. Don’t let their urgency and pushy attitude influence you into buying or overpaying. I wouldn’t recommend Gillece to anyone!

I’ve been meaning to write this review for a long time– and am happy to finally get around to it. As a new homeowner in the Pittsburgh area, I didn’t really have a heating/​plumbing service that I knew– so I fell for the constant advertising of Gillece. I had them come out and service my boiler right before the winter (September timeframe).
After the preventative maintenance, the second time I turned the boiler on– it crapped out (which happened to coincide on a day that I was home from work, sick with the flu). I called Gillece to come out to service it– and then things went downhill quickly. They identified that my boiler was not fixable for less than $ 6,000, and that it would require a MINIMUM of $ 11,000 for a new boiler– but that to get a proper boiler, it would cost at least $ 20,000. When considering the fact that I live in a 1,200 square foot home– this was entirely out of line– a new boiler shouldn’t cost me any more than (at the absolute maximum) $ 6,000. So, I told them I would have to think about it, and called a local handyman. The end result of his review was that the transformer was blown– and 15-​minutes and $ 75 later, my boiler was up and running, and has been ever since.
My guess is that Gillece can finance their constant ad campaigns by ripping off uninformed/​underinformed consumers, particularly the young (yours truly) and elderly. The sales job they tried on their boiler system was criminal– and in my opinion, this company should be avoided at ALL costs.