To whom it may concern,
We invited John Montgomery to recommend options to install air conditioning in our home. Our invitation was based on advice from a friend that recommended John as an air conditioning engineer who would do an excellent job for us.
John designed a system for us that incorporated much of an existing ducted heating system, upgraded a lot of the ducting for cooling and installed the refrigeration system. That much was excellent but expected. However, he also designed the system to cope with the next generation of our (ageing) heating system, he resolved some issues relating to changes in the Brivis system, personally checked the configurations and commissioned the system. All on budget, all very timely and all exactly as promised.

John will fuss. He will fuss about your requirements; he will want to explain to you what he wants to build, how it should be built and how it should and how it should be configured. He will talk to you about your concerns, your requirements, and your future plans and explain how he will build your plans into his system.

If you want a quick job, with a tradesman who will install a default system and hope it works with minimum input from you, John is not your man. If you want to be confident in the job, confident it will last and cope with later configurations and system requirements, and most of all be confident that he will install what you actually need as distinct from what you think you need John comes with my highest recommendation. He is that old-style engineer who actually cares and I do not think he would install a system that you might think you want, or you have been told you want, if he knows it is not what you actually need.

In short, I’d use John again and I would not bother to seek alternative quotes or alternative advice on systems. I simply would trust John to do another outstanding job.

A.J. Pitman - Professor of Atmospheric & Climate Science, Pymble, NSW