Make sense of your heating or cooling replacement quote.
Compare your options by upfront quoted price, estimated operating cost, efficiency, comfort, warranty, and long-term value — without a sales pitch or lead form.
Use your quoted prices and system details if you have them. Or start with a sample comparison to see how the tool works before you decide.
A planning tool for clearer decisions, not a pitch.
Heat Cool Cost is meant to help homeowners slow down, compare tradeoffs, and feel more confident choosing the replacement option that fits their family.
What this does
Heat Cool Cost helps you interpret quoted replacement options, compare estimated operating costs, and understand the tradeoffs between price, comfort, efficiency, warranty, and long-term value.
What this does not do
It does not tell you what contractors should charge in your area, guarantee savings, replace professional advice, or rank contractors. It is a homeowner planning tool designed to make a quote easier to understand.
Frequently asked questions
These answers are written for homeowners who want plain-English explanations, realistic expectations, and fewer surprises while comparing replacement options.
Compare your options
Use your quoted system details and upfront prices to compare operating-cost tradeoffs, comfort, efficiency, and long-term value more clearly before you decide.
Quote summary
We translated the quote into comparison-ready systems so you can focus on the most important differences first.
1. Home and rate source
Choose provider presets for a fast estimate, then override the numbers if the homeowner has exact rates from a bill.
Climate profile: Michigan statewide estimate - 2200 heating hours - 550 cooling hours
Comfort preference impact: winter 70°F baseline - summer 75°F baseline
Optional real-world bill calibration
If you know the homeowner's real bills, use them to anchor the estimate. This helps counter overly optimistic textbook efficiency assumptions.
2. Current system
3. Proposed system
4. Comparison setup
Option library
This quote includes more than three systems. Choose up to three that you want to compare side by side right now.
5. Option B
6. Option C
How this tool can connect to quotes
Heat Cool Cost can work as a standalone homeowner tool or open with information already filled in from a contractor quote. The current version is intentionally simple and static, which makes it easy to launch from another app with a shared link.
Open it with quote details already filled in
https://your-domain.example/?mode=quote"eId=BD-2026-9991&baselineLabel=Current%20System&option1Label=System%201&option2Label=System%202&option3Label=System%203&optionCount=3&zip=49423&state=MI¤tType=furnaceAc¤tSystemYear=2008¤tHeatSize=80¤tCoolSize=3¤tFanMode=auto¤tFuel=gas¤tAfue=80¤tSeer2=10&proposedType=furnaceAc&proposedHeatSize=60&proposedCoolSize=2.5&proposedFanMode=continuous&proposedFuel=gas&proposedAfue=97&proposedSeer2=17
The app now also supports a structured payload URL param for quote-linked launches, which gives the quoting app a cleaner bridge than hand-assembling every query-string field individually.
What information can be passed in
- Homeowner ZIP or state so the tool can suggest climate hours and utility presets.
- Current system type, size, fuel, and efficiencies.
- Up to three selected proposal systems for side-by-side comparison.
- Optional quote-mode labels such as Current System, System 1, System 2, or the actual names pulled from a proposal.
- If a quote includes more than three systems, the homeowner can choose which three to compare.
- Optional exact utility rates if another app already stores them.
- A structured payload can carry quote IDs, installed prices, model numbers, warranty summaries, and selected systems in one encoded object.
Recommended next step for production
- Keep this static front end on Vercel, then add a small backend endpoint later for real provider lookup and bill-based rate normalization.
- If you want true provider-level accuracy, we should add a data pipeline or API instead of claiming "AI found the rates" in the browser.
- When the quoting app is ready, its existing fields can be wired into this calculator with legacy URL params or the newer structured payload bridge, including custom option names from the proposal.