Workmanship warranty on every job
If we touched it and it fails, we come back and fix it. No invoice, no debate.
About us
We’re the HVAC company you’d recommend to your mom.
Home Forecast is a family-run heating and air shop in Toronto, ON. We’ve been fixing furnaces, AC units, heat pumps, and water heaters since 2008. Same family, same phone number, same standards.
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Our story
Started because the alternative was getting worse.
In the mid-2000s the chains rolled into town. Pricing got squirrelly. Quotes turned into 90-minute living-room presentations. Techs started getting paid on commission for parts you didn’t need.
We thought homeowners deserved better, so we opened up shop in 2008 with a simple rule: diagnose the actual problem, show the actual price, do the work. If it’s a $40 capacitor, it’s a $40 capacitor. If it’s a full system replace, we’ll explain why and write the financing in plain English.
Eighteen years later we’re still doing it the same way. Just with more trucks, a bigger crew, and a maintenance club for folks who’d rather not get called by the system at 6 p.m. in August.
“The first house we ever serviced is on our route to this day. The kid who was nine when we replaced their furnace just bought a place across town and called us for his AC. That’s the whole business model.”
Founded
2008
Headquarters
Toronto, ON
Milestones
How we got here
No spin, no “disrupting the industry” talk. Just the actual sequence of events.
- 2008
One truck, one tech
Started in a garage with a used Ford E-250 and a referral list of fifteen neighbors. Most of them are still customers.
- 2013
We hired our first apprentice
Decided early on that the only way to scale without losing the standard was to train people from scratch. Every tech on the crew today came up through that program.
- 2017
Tablet pricing went live
Tired of customers feeling sandbagged. We built a flat-rate book and put it on every truck. The price you see is the price you pay.
- 2021
Protection Plan launched
Members kept asking for a maintenance plan that didn't read like a phone contract. So we made one. Month to month, real perks, no fine print.
- Today
Eleven trucks and counting
Still family-owned. Still answering the phone ourselves on weekends. Still showing up when we said we would.
What you can expect
Four promises we put in writing.
These aren’t marketing slogans. They’re on every invoice, every estimate, and every membership card.
Price on the tablet, then we start
We don't pull tools out until you've seen the number and tapped approve.
No 3-year handcuffs
The Protection Plan is month to month. Cancel with one phone call. Seriously.
On-call after hours, year-round
August at 6 p.m. is when systems quit. A real tech answers the line, not a service.
How we work
The unwritten rules we wrote down.
Diagnose first, sell second
If a $40 capacitor fixes it, we install the capacitor. We're not commissioned to upsell you a system you don't need.
If we don't know, we say so
Every tech has the senior crew on speed dial. We'd rather pause and ask than guess on your dime.
Clean up like we were never there
Drop cloths, shoe covers, swept floors. Your house should look better when we leave than when we arrived.
Talk to you like a neighbor
No scare tactics, no jargon walls. If your grandma wouldn't understand the explanation, we rewrite it.
Where we work
We cover Toronto and the surrounding ON area within roughly a 40-mile radius of the shop. Outside that? Call anyway. If we can’t come, we’ll tell you who we’d send our own family to.
- Residential service & repair
- Scheduled installs
- Warranty & callback work
- Protection Plan maintenance
Want to see if we’re a fit?
Couple of minutes on the qualifier and we’ll text you back with next steps. Or just call. A person picks up.