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  Roth Heating

  6990 S Anderson Rd Aurora, OR 97002-9301

  
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  Roth Zachry Heating Inc

  690 W Three Peaks Dr Unit 160 Sisters, OR 97759-2735

  

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• Initial Complaint

  Date:03/13/2025

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  On 2-3-25 I called ****. Spoke with a woman. I told her I need a tech to look at my furnace due to the noise it was making. On 2-5-25 **** came. I explained the noise issue. He looked at my furnace. He gave me 3 options. fix my current furnace or replace it with new one or buy new with heat pump. A ***** then texted asked if I was ready to go forward. I told him I had concerns before I did so. #1 concern was the noise. He said the new system would control air flow which makes the noise, and he would put in the notes for install crew to investigate and control. Installed system on 2-12-25. System was running 21 out of 24 hours a day. Noise still continued but louder. After 8 days of 21 hours running and only blowing cold air I called back and had **** come back. The 2 techs found the heat pump they installed was never hooked up. That's why it ran for hours without getting warm. They also found the fuse in fuse box wasn't correct. They had electrician fix that. Then actually hooked heat pump up. Techs own words were" good thing the noise still happens or who knows how long this would have continued or what could have happened". They told me it'd cost me another $15 to $20,000 more to fix noise issue. I email ****** explained the noise was still a issue but even louder. Told him my PGE bill went way up for that week due to only blowing cold air. He offered me 10% off of the $20,000 it would cost to fix my orginal issue! He said since it was a pre-existing problem he couldn't do anything. I paid almost $16,000 for an issue that I'm still having. Not to mention they did not even hook the heat pump up for a week after it was installed. I had to take time off of work cause of their mistakes. Cost me on my PGE bill for blowing cold air but mainly I'm no better off now than I was before. I feel they took advantage of me because I'm a single woman and a widow. Very unprofessional. The very reason for calling **** was the noise. I have all this in emails and texts for proof.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 04/25/2025

  Talking with my team; **** is actively continuing to work with this customer towards a resolution. 
  
  Our Customer Experience Manager continues to check in with ******; and we went out on 4/1/25 to add bracing to the unit. 
  
  While we aren't at a full resolution, we are working together with her. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:01/08/2025

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  ResolvedMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Dec. 24, 2024 I called re sewer lines not draining at **************************************. The crew of 2 sent to scope at 99 dollar negotiated over the telephone. told that the line was broken in multiple pieces and that a root ball was totally filling the line. They stated the blockage in the pipe was under the road before it connected to the city sewer.The quote onthe hydro jet job was initially about $1500. I refused, The tecs returned to their vehicles then got a called the manager who agreed to reduce to $755. They then said they would provide the invoice and video by email. The video was only sent to me by email only after an additional request. Upon, I saw no indication of a broken pipe or any tree roots. The hole that was water jetted appeared to be quite small on the video,. The crew indicated the road would have to be dug up to replace the broken pipe and they would provide a ********** morning lines appeared to be plugged again. I called around until I found a company same day. When they arrived, they came with a camera scope and equipment to clean out the pipe and pull out the new blockage. The price was quoted at 800. . They found no indication of a broken pipe nor of tree roots while scoping or boring which pulled out no foreign debris. We were charged ****** for this service and a video showing a wide upon un broke pipe.**** quoted ****** to fix the pipe. There was no broken pipe or roots. Wolvers video proved that. We discussed with **** who agreed they would provide a refund but when we got the refund it was for $350 not 755. The refunded should be 755 considering they did not clear the pipe it plugged the next day, there was no break, no tree roots and then they tried to initiate a contract for repair work not needed. This is a scam and we want the remainder above and beyond the $350 refunded because we had to hire a different company the next day to clear a sewer pipes which are working without issue as of this day.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 02/04/2025

  *******,

  After reviewing Mr. ********* account with us, we had initiated a refund of $350, due to continued customer dissatisfaction due to threats made to **** we opted to providing an additional refund in the amount of $404.50, which brought Mr. ********* original charge down to $0.00. This final refund took place on January 13th 2025 back to this customers credit card we have on file. We made attempts to provide the information the customer requested on different occasions proir to January 13th. 

   

  Please let me know if you need any additional information. 

   

  Best,

  ****** **** (Customer Experience Manger w/ **** Home) 

  Customer Answer

  Date: 02/12/2025

   
  Better Business Bureau:
  
  I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ********, and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  ***** *******

• Initial Complaint

  Date:06/15/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I contacted **** mid- May due to an error message I kept receiving on my thermostat of an HVAC system that I purchased from them in May of 2022. **** sent a tech out who spent 6 plus hours here telling me multiple times he was not sure what the issue was but he would keep trying different things. At the end of the day he told me he had no idea what was going on but that if what he did didnt work to call and request a senior tech. This trip cost me $1100. 4 hours after the tech left and the first time the system kicked onthe same error message popped. I called the next morning let them know it was not fixed and they sent out a senior tech the following day. The senior tech was here for 3 and half hour trying to figure it out only to determine that there was water in line that needed to be drained. He determined that water in the system and what was causing the issue to get the error message was due to the cold header box leaking and needed to be replaced, all of which is warranty work. The next day I called **** asking for at least a partial refund of the $1100 since it was deemed that the issues I was having were due to a warrantied part and system. After some research on their part they stated they would not be refunding the $1100 dollars since the tech was out the first day and did work (that didnt work at all mind you nor did it even get to the root of the issue that senior tech found). The tech on second day even left me documentation that states the issues are due to the cold header box and would require replacement. I have yet to hear back from **** once asked them why they were not honoring their own techs experience and written documentation and scamming $1100 for that did even address the problem!

  

  Business Response

  Date: 07/02/2024

  We're glad we were able to connect with you and work towards a resolution. Please feel free to reach back out with any other questions or concerns.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:02/06/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Roth Heating & Cooling ******************************************************************************* ************** Dear ***,I am writing this letter to plead your assistance. I believe Roth heating is doing dishonor business. Their scams deserve to assign to the publication and let the consumers be aware of their dishonest business endeavors. One day I called to the firm and tried to fix our downstairs, basement 1/5 inch leaking pipe. An office clerk answered my call. She said required an hour minimum charged and the plumber service fees not included. She asked me credit card to hold. I gave her my card. Then, the woman came to our place used a sharp pocket knife slide a square foot sheetrock off for her attendance and leave. She did not temporary fix the leak. The next day she called me and told me the cost to fix the pipe $25,500! She wanted me to tear off all upstairs pipes to replace the entire plumbing. She said the pipe could be temporary fix but she did not do so while she was in my downstairs. I told her not a plumber quoted me such outrage rates even if have to replace the full house pipes. The next plumber quoted me to replace all pipe for $13,500. **** hearing quoted us nearly double rates! The office lady clerk did not have the skills to temporary fix the leaking pipe. I do not believe office clerk wage $503 dollars an hour. She is too ambitious and outrageous minds. Generally, office clerk pay rates $15 to $20 an hour, plus workers comp, social security tax, firm overhead operating expense. It should not exceed $100 an hour. I wish to hear from you how I can deal with this ambitious business fraud. Thank you for your helps.*********,**********************

  

  Business Response

  Date: 02/12/2024

  The technician that was sent out was in fact a licensed journeyman plumber. It is a little insulting to insinuate that she is not. Upon arrival at the customers home, *********** performed a minor leak search, which is what the homeowner was asking for. We were able to locate the active water leak and provided the customer options to repair. They opted to move forward with a temporary repair option, which was made clear to them. We were able to successfully repair the leak, albeit only a temporary solution to a larger problem. They did not want to proceed with some of the more thorough options presented to them. We have since reached out directly to the customer to see what else we can do to help and they have not returned any of our attempts. 

  Customer Answer

  Date: 02/13/2024

  I see that **** plumbing is telling the liar story.  *** woman arrived our place.  She walked to kitchen took some pictures of kitchen trash floor and counter.  We told her the leak was downstairs basement, bedroom closet wall pipe leaking, not the upstairs.  We  showed her where the leak came from.  She then use a sharp blade sliced a square foot of  the sheetrock, tapped off  it and took picture of it.   She did not do any temporary repair or showed me she has the skills or license ability.   She walked off our leaking house!    *** next day she called and told me it can be temporary repair but she did not do so while she was at our place!  She wanted us to replace the full house plumbing system!   If she has plumbing skill or license she should have the moral to temporary repair and suggest me If I want to do the full house plumbing renew.    Roth heating is very lack of ethical business practice...
  

  I believe **************** should  suspend  Roth heating and Cooling business license practice  so that they do not continue to bluffer the public.   *** woman come to our place did not demonstrate she has the skill to fix the plumbing.    She is not deserve to get pay $503 per hour job.  *** office clerk wage around $20 an hour wage, plus social security tax ****%, worker comp ****%, plus her gas expense; shop overhead exp.  It should not exceed $100.   She stayed my place no more than 20 minutes.    I need her offer me a reasonable rates.  Otherwise, she should file complaint to **************** to claim the money she wants.   Sincerely, Lilan  Tsai
  

  
  

  Customer Answer

  Date: 02/23/2024

  Dear Sir, 

  I was waiting the **** plumbing offer me a reasonable agreement.  I leave a message to ask their fair market rates of their field trip costs.  They never get back to me.  My concluded of their billing as follow: 

  When I called to **** plumbing, a woman told me there was a field trip charge $129.  She wanted me to give her credit card to hold. I told her I prefer they fix the 1/5" leaking pipe rather than just field trip.  She said she not sure she could find someone fix right away, but they would do the job as soon as they can. 
  
  I was surprised the woman came to take pictures of trash house and billed us $503!  
  I contacted a man if they honest charge me fair price field trip, I will honor their charge.  They never get back to me.
  I see Better Business Bureau records.  They have friends and relatives go online write very nice reviews for them.
  However, **** plumbing has 10 complaint this year before me already!
  
  Thank you, 

  **********************

  

  Business Response

  Date: 03/25/2024

  Like I stated before, we sent out a journeyman plumber to take a look at the customers flooding basement and try and resolve her broken pipes. To open up the wall and expose the pipes to get an understanding of where the flooding might be coming from, we let the customer know it would be $500. She agreed to this $500 to open the wall and take a look at the pipes. We then offered a temporary fix of $100 to do a quick repair so the customer could turn the water back on for her renters. We did let her know that was only temporary, and would not be a good, long-term repair option. The customer did not agree to this temporary fix, or the larger repair. We will not be issuing a refund as the customer agreed to the work that she was charged for. 

• Initial Complaint

  Date:01/29/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  **** replaced my meter after an ice storm tore it off house. They refused to give me an itemized receipt. We dont give remixed receipts. ************* will not pay . The cost was over $5000

  

  Business Response

  Date: 02/12/2024

  We let the customer know up front we don't work with home insurance companies. We were able to get her project completed quickly which was the selling point for her. We have spoken to the insurance agent and explained our companies policy on itemized receipts. We did send over an invoice with the completed work that was signed off on by the customer.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:01/08/2024

  Type:Sales and Advertising Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Complaint- 1. Failure to disclose nature of the job, 2. Overcharging for job 1. Plumber from ************* did not fully explain that he was only replacing a valve previously there, I thought he was installing a new system in order to connect a new dishwasher I had purchased. 2. The plumber worked for half an hour to replace a new valve where there had been a previous valve. I was charged $824.92 for a 30 minute job. I checked with another plumbing company, who explained that it is standard practice to fully explain to the customer the nature of the job and cost. I was asked to sign the paperwork without understanding the scope of the work. My daughter had set the appointment with *************. If I had known that a half an hour job would cost $800, I would not have agreed to this.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 01/18/2024

  *********** came out and gave a bid to replace the angle stop to allow for a proper installation of the customer supplied dishwasher. See attached invoice with customer signature agreeing to the bid and the price to do the work. *********** showed up to the customers home right around 8am and finished the agreed upon work right around 10:30am. We apologize if you didn't fully understand the scope of the work that was agreed to, we can certainly work with *********** to go into more details with the customer. We will not be issuing any kind of refund as this work was agreed upon by the homeowner and was installed properly as quoted.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:01/09/2023

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  We called Roth Heating on or about Dec. 22, 2022 to look at a Rinnai tankless water issue (no hot water) at ***************************************************. Hot water is also used to heat the upstairs via radiators. **** was told all of this. **** made it clear that there was a fee to come out and diagnose the problem. Then they would give a quote for the repair work - if we decided to move forward with the repair work on the same day the initial fee would be applied to the repair work. All fine with us. Technician came out (on or about Dec. 26, 2022) and stated that he would be doing diagnostics test. I asked what that entailed and he answered "this and that" with no further explanation. He then told me he would need to call Rinnai tech support which would cost me $500. Thus, the fee now was not $104 but $500 for a quote of repair work. He would not budge and left since i did not agree to pay $500 more. The entire time i am with the technician at the tankless water heater and he did not touch or diagnose a thing other than "I need to call Rinnai tech support and that will cost you $500." I called the **** rep (after the technician left) and stated what had happened and that the fee was really $500 (assuming the $104 was subsumed) not $104 but she blamed it on a "misunderstanding" and would not do a refund even though no diagnosis and no quote (other than pay me another $500) was made at all by the technician. Fyi, I called Rinnai tech support myself later and the Rinnai rep was appalled someone would ask for $500 to talk to them for a diagnosis check. In addition, i did hire someone else with same fee/diagnosis set up as **** and hired them at a total cost of $400 as they did do a diagnosis/quote. I ask for a refund of $104. I do not have my CC statement in yet to send in the charge but can do later when requested.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 01/11/2023

  After reviewing and listening to all call records and the documents from our Journeyman Plumber on site, we will not be issuing a refund. As we told you on the phone when you called in - we stand by our process and you were given all relevant information in a very transparent manner. Before booking the appointment, we made your wife aware of the $104 trip fee to get *********** to your home. This fee gets waived if you move forward with any work from our company. Once they are at your home, they will take a look at the scope of the work and quote you on any repair, diagnostic, etc. that they recommend. This is exactly what *********** did. *********** was being transparent in what your options were, and explaining what steps he would take to complete the diagnostic to try and get your hot water working. I am glad you were able to save $100 by going with another company.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/17/2022

  Type:Customer Service Issues
  Status:

  AnsweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  We had scheduled electrical work to be done on 10/14 mid day. We knew that the work was going to be more extensive and tried to explain all that was needed so they could come and do work the same day. I was reassured that their visit would be a project estimate AND to do the work same day. I was even okay with the $140 fee for them to come out and look at the property and project scope. I was surprised that they took just one look around, and were eager to leave for the day in about 30 min. I tried to ask why they weren't doing the work today and was met with excuses, even though I had provided tons of detail about the project they did not come prepared to work like the dispatcher had reassured me. After giving us a very insanely high project estimate, and not being able to start that day, we decided to look else where. Not only was it frustrating that their estimate was astronomical, but if we HAD accepted their estimate, they wouldn't have been back for another week and a half.Unfortunately that wasn't even the most disappointing part. It was pretty clear that the lead electrician was intoxicated, had the smell of alcohol on his breath, and was slurring his speech. He also was pressuring us to book and being very rude to us when we tried to clear up confusion about why they weren't working during their visit. He kept trying to come into the house and I repeatedly told him no, and asked to just pay him the fee so that they could just leave. He didn't take no for an answer and kept trying to take steps into the house so that he could proceed with his sales pitch on work that was drastically higher priced than other electricians in the area. I tried calling **** multiple times after and was either on a very long hold, or was told someone would call me back to talk about our issues further. I never got a call back, and feel like no one has listened to us.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 11/11/2022

  After reviewing the complaint, listening to all of the phone records, and speaking with the team members who were on site as well as their manager, I don't believe this complaint is accurate. Not once did a **** employee tell the customer the work for this project would be done the same day. The work in question requires permitting, which would not be possible to obtain and complete the work in the same day. Our electricians were on site for an hour and a half to do a thorough evaluation of the project and quote the customer accordingly. As far as our lead electrician being intoxicated, that is unequivocally false. After speaking with our lead electrician, our apprentice that was on-site the whole time, and looking through driving logs, there is no way he was under the influence of alcohol. He is older, and I don't appreciate the assumption made about our employee based on speaking patterns. Not to mention, he is our top rated electrician, and we have never received a negative review for him. After talking with our electrical apprentice about whether or not the lead electrician was pressuring the customer into accepting the quote or trying to enter the house, he said they did not. He said they just followed our process of doing a thorough evaluation and bringing all of the options we find to the homeowner. The customer called in while the electricians were on site to try and pressure us into giving a direct answer of when the work would be completed, instead of asking the two electricians we had on-site. The customer did call back in to give their feedback, but they did not ask for a call back. We let them know we would take their feedback and speak with our electrical manager and if we needed to do any coaching from there we would. If they would like to talk to someone, they are free to call back in and someone would be happy to go over the project and what would go into getting the work completed.

  Customer Answer

  Date: 11/11/2022

   
  Complaint: 18227208
  
  I am rejecting this response. To be fair, no one would willingly admit to being at fault on the job, so this really turns into a he said she said. I still feel like I was mislead by the dispatch team during booking that work would be done same day. I am not seeking any compensation for this complaint, and do not think any actions can be done to resolve our frustration. We will continue to use other electricians and advise our friends and family to avoid the **** company in the future.