Why Our Goodman Products Are The Best In The Business

Morris Heat and Air is a Goodman Factory Authorized Dealer located in Okmulgee Oklahoma and serves all of Northeast Oklahoma.  In this blog, I am going to talk about our Goodman products and discuss why our Goodman products are the best in the business.  

Goodman Manufacturing Company is the largest manufacturer of Heating and Air Conditioning Systems in the United States.  Goodman Manufacturing Company is located, conveniently, in Houston Texas alongside Daikin.  

Goodman Manufacturing was founded by HVAC dealer, Harold V. Goodman, in 1975 as a manufacturer of flexible air ducts and plastic blade registers. However, he turned his sights to fulfill a dream of manufacturing affordable HVAC equipment for households across the United States of America and beyond.  In 1982, the company acquired Janitrol and entered the HVAC market, expanding its product offering in 1986 to include gas heating products.  Harold V. Goodman died in 1996 and was succeeded by Frank H. Murray who became chairman and CEO in April 1996.  In 1997, Murray initiated and spearheaded the Goodman acquisition of Raytheon Appliances, the predecessor of Amana Corporation, a manufacturer of appliances and HVAC units. Four years later, in 2001, Goodman separated its appliances business from its HVAC business and would sell the appliances business to Maytag Corporation.  In 2004, Goodman was acquired by Apollo Management, a private equity firm for approximately $1.43 billion. Just a year and a half later, in April 2006, Goodman completed an initial public offering, listing on the New York Stock Exchange.  In October 2007, Goodman agreed to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman a San Francisco-based private equity firm in a $1.8 billion transaction. In August 2012, Hellman & Friedman agreed to sell Goodman Global to Japan's Daikin Industries Ltd. for $3.7 billion.  In 2015, Daikin commenced construction of the state-of-the-art Daikin Texas Technology Park campus near Houston, Texas. This over $400 million project was the largest investment made in Daikin’s 90-year history. In October 2016, operations at the new facility ramped up and the first Goodman air conditioner and gas furnace units came off the line.  In 2017, the construction of the huge facility concluded to consolidate Goodman’s HVAC manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and customer support under one 4.1 million square foot roof.  When Goodman was aquired by Daikin in 2012, the Goodman products underwent some changes that made the overall product better.  Some of the changes included the shortening of the Goodman Manufacturing Company High Efficiency Condensing Furnaces by 5 1/2".  By making the Goodman Brand Furnace shorter, it allowed more room within compact furnace closets to include Clean Comfort 5" Media Boxes.  This solved many of the problems that plagued the Goodman installations in Tulsa area that were caused by undersized duct systems and leaky duct work.  

Goodman Manufacturing Company has 5-7 distributors in the Tulsa Oklahoma area as of 2012.  When compared to other manufacturers, this far supercedes the infrastructure of manufacturers like Trane that only has 1 residential distributor, Lennox that only has one residential distributor, American Standard which only has one residential distributor, Carrier which only has 1 residential distributor and York which only has one residential distributor.  I have always known that if one of my local Goodman distributors doesnt have it, another one will.  So when it comes to the availability of parts, they are most always readily available.  When I began selling Goodman products in 2006, I was going to school at Tulsa Technology Center in Tulsa Oklahoma.  My instructor, at the time, was Pat Enochs, with Enochs Heat and Air in Tulsa Oklahoma.  Pat Enochs was the first Heat and Air Contractor to install a condensing furnace in Tulsa Oklahoma and was intrigued by the Goodman Design.  Goodman Manufacturing Company went on to win awards for their high efficiency furnace heat exchanger design, putting to shame the other manufacturers, specifically, Lennox and Trane.  To this day, we continue to see problems with Lennox and Trane high efficiency furnaces due to design flaws.  These design flaws consist of plastic parts used for the cold header plates in the secondary heat exchanger.  The plastic cold header plates for Lennox and Trane are designed to have screws screwed into them and overtime, as soon as 5 or 6 years, the plastic begins to crack.  When this happens, the pressure switches fail to engage the burners and most heat and air contractors bypass them which causes carbon monoxide to seep into the air stream and causes moisture damage due to condensation from the secondary heat exchanger seeping through the cracks in the plastic cold header plates into the duct system.  Goodman and Daikin ducted systems are made entirely of Stainless Steel and never crack or break.  Because of this problem, many Lennox, Trane, and American Standard contractors install 80% efficiency furnaces and rarely explain the benefits to having a high efficiency furnace that operates up to 98% AFUE.  Rightfully so, due to the fact that they become a liability on the homeowner and sometimes the contractor because of the poorly designed heat exchangers.  Goodman Manufacturing Company, to this day, continues to be the front runner in heat exchanger design and furnace efficiency.  Goodman currently has high efficiency gas furnaces that operate at 98% AFUE.  This is the highest efficient furnace that exists as of 2017 in the HVAC Industry.  Since 2006, I have installed nothing but 95%-98% AFUE Furnaces by Goodman Manufacturing Company and have had no warranty issues on over 2,000 installations from 2006 to 2017.  Not only are the Goodman and Daikin Furnaces more energy efficient, but they are also a more reliable and dependable choice compared to other manufacturers.  Because Goodman is the largest manufacturer in the United States and Daikin is the largest manufacturer in the World, they sell more products than any other manufacturer.  Due to the fact that they sell more products, the price of the products are cheaper.  

Goodman products are engineered to be simple and less complicated than the typical air conditioner.  It was always a goal of Harold V Goodman to manufacture the most reliable and affordable air conditioner in production.  I can honestly say that Goodman products are the most simple products to work on and they rarely break down.  In 2014, Morris Heat and Air began offering Lifetime Warranties on all Goodman Products installed by Morris Heat and Air.  We began offering this Lifetime Warranty because of all the systems installed since 2006, we had no warranty issues outside of capacitors.  This built our confidence in the products we were installing, so much so, that we began installing our Goodman products with the guarantee that if they break down, we will fix it for free!  To this day, in over 3,000 installed Goodman Products since 2006, we have had less than 25 warranty issues.  95% of these warranty issues were capacitors manufactured by a 3rd Party that mentions a 2% failure rate prior to 40,000 hours of run time.  All of these warranty issues were on systems installed on homes that declined home and duct sealing which causes our Goodman systems to run 10%-30% longer than they would if the home and duct system were sealed.  

Because we focus on home performance, solar systems and insulation, we really love the Goodman Products because of their affordability, Practicality, durability, and warranty.  When compared to the price of highly advertised name brands like Lennox and Trane, you can save thousands of dollars by choosing Goodman products and use the money you saved to upgrade the energy efficiency level of your home by having your duct system sealed or a solar system.  I was always impressed with the home that we installed a 13 SEER Goodman System on for $4,500, but also installed a $12,000 solar system which qualified the homeowner for a $3,600 federal tax credit.  This home, to this day, operates at net 0 and their electricity bill is never over $21.  I meet people that spent $13,000-$25,000 for their Lennox or Trane communicating systems that operate well above 20 SEER, but their electricity bill every month is over $45!  Doesn't make sense to install these high priced products due to their SEER level when you can spend the real money on a solar system that can easily offset your energy cost.  

On top of all of the advantages to having a Goodman system, there are even more!  Our Goodman products are the safest products in the industry too.  Not only are our products design to keep you and your family safe, but they are also designed to keep heat and air technicians safe as well.  Other manufacturers use cheap plastic parts that jeopardize the safety of your family.  Other manufacturers also manufacture their sheet metal that make up their products in a cheap way as well!  Goodman Manufacturing Company bevels or rounds out the edges of the sheet metal used to make up the body of their heat and air systems.  When you lift up on the condenser and packaged unit tops to access other areas of the system for maintenance and diagnosis, you are not lifting up on a straight edged piece of sheet metal that can cut off your finger by exerting upward force to lift it off the product.  By lifting up on a beveled or rounded edge, there is no possibility that you can cut yourself on the edge of the sheet metal.  I am only writing about this due to an incident while an employee and I were working on a Lennox International Product.  By simply trying to lift the top of the Lennox system, my employ literally cut off 1/2 of his finger and had to rushed to the hospital.  Though it did not permanently hender his ability to work, he still has a scar where a chunk of his finger was sliced off by a Lennox Packaged Unit top.  I mentioned it to a representative from Lennox and he explained that my employee should have been wearing gloves.  Goodman Manufacturing Company takes a little more time to bevel and round the edges of their sheet metal.  

Another advantage of having a Goodman system in your home is the amount of people who know how to work on them.  Many other manufacturers hoard their product knowledge to themselves and only allow dealers access to information.  Because of this, their prices are higher and anyone who attempts to work on them for less, may make mistakes causing more damage which results in added costs to the homeowner.  Goodman Manufacturing Company has the industries leading tech support service that is available 5 days a week from 7AM to 7PM.  The parts required to repair Goodman Brand Heating and Cooling systems are usually 35% to 70% less than other manufacturers so when the units break down, the repair cost is less than if you had a Lennox, Trane, Carrier, or American Standard.  Aside from all of the advantages to owning a Goodman Brand System, there are still more reasons to purchase one.  

Morris Heat and Air is a Goodman Factory Authorized Dealer located conveniently in Okmulgee Oklahoma.  Our facility operates at Net0 and we have no overhead cost associated with offering our Goodman Products to our customers in terms of energy cost.  Because we are not in debt and operate efficiently with low overhead cost, we are able to offer 0% interest financing on our Goodman Products for up to 72 months!  You will never have a more dependable, reliable, energy efficient system installed on your home as you will have with a Goodman Brand Heating and Cooling System.  If you happen to see poor reviews on our Goodman systems, I can assure you that they were not installed properly and would love to assist anyone to better understand why their Goodman system is not performing to their satisfaction.  Call us today to learn more about Morris Heat and Air and what we can do for you! (918) 734-0040.

Morris Heat and Air currently offers service in Northeastern Oklahoma and more specifically in Okmulgee, Tulsa, Jenks, Glenpool, Bixby, Broken Arrow, Sapulpa, Sand Springs, Catoosa, Henryetta, Dustin, Morris, Beggs, Schulter, Nuyaka, Keifer, Mounds, Liberty Mounds, Leonard, Stone Bluff, Haskell, Boynton, Wainwright, Muskogee, McAlester, Okemah, Pharoah, Clearview, Checotah and Lake Eufala.  We offer service 24 hours a day and 7 days a week at no additional cost.  However, our service technicians have families of their own, and every once in a while they need personal time.  Please dont hesitate to call us.