About Greentech

Welcome to my site. I opened for business in the Spring of 2007. GreenTech's focus is on retrofitting new energy-saving gas furnaces, long life central air conditioners, and Japanese ductless mini-split wall-mounted heat pumps.

The short version of our long story is that when you hire us you get the best gear out there, put in by people who have been at this forever and who deliver arguably the best install you can find in Portland. Based on what I do in the home and the level of equipment I use, my prices should be the highest prices going in town...however...my best weapon in the bid wars is the company size. Because it's a tiny outfit over here, with no heavy overhead you can get the best gear, put in by the best guys, for lower prices than our peers can offer. No install team in Portland that I know of can stack up to Abe, our electricians and myself. (See our backstories below)

I do service, maintenance and repairs for customers that already have some of my equipment in their home. If I haven’t worked for you before and you are contacting me for general service or repair work, I’d steer you to bigger outfits with service departments. Once you have one of my systems in the home then I will take care of you for as long as you own the home.

GreenTech no longer offers ducted heat pumps to our clients who have a gas line to the home. The ducted heat pump boycott story is too long to tell here. Just know that I've been putting in ducted heat pumps since Bill Clinton was new to the Whitehouse and if I thought they were a good idea these days, I'd be painting Portland with them. It's a real pain to be the only guy in town selling against them and I'd only take this stance for really good reasons. If you came here in the hunt for a ducted heat pump, please utilize my three decades plus of ducted heat pump experience and heed my advice/new mantra, "if possible, don't heat your home with a ducted heat pump". A simple long-life gas furnace with a simple long-life AC unit is the best way to go these days. It's not even close.

When I take on a system, I try to keep within the City of Portland or close-to-town projects only.

On all new systems, our favorite electrical company will wire the gear and it's built into the bid. When wall patches are needed we’ve got an outfit that I've used since 2007 and they are borderline magicians with how well they texture match existing walls. GreenTech also has relationships with plumbers, roofers, framers, abatement outfits and other random trades folk should your HVAC project overlap with other areas in the home and you need trusted referrals.

The GreenTech Team

Scott

In the summer of 1993 I started my apprenticeship in residential HVAC. Early on I knew upgrading existing homes was where I excelled and I have remained focused on this area of our trade. After spending almost 15 years installing, managing and selling for other major metro Portland HVAC companies, I decided I could do it "better than everybody else" and I dreamt up GreenTech. Early in 2007 I started the company. I keep the tools out for all our projects.A big part of the GreenTech brand is the "owner of the company is still onsite" angle. My name is attached to every job. Often I'm helped out by my co-pilot Abe, who's been with me a decade or more, depending on when you read this. Read his bio below. Because of my years spent selling systems for large, high-pressure HVAC outfits, it informed how I come to your house to bid your project. I learned what not to do. A sales visit from me includes no selling. We’ll chat up what you are looking to accomplish, I’ll take notes then I’ll go back and email you my version of how to get you to where you wanna go. I haven’t “sold” a job since 2007, people just hire me.

Abe

Abe is my HVAC co-pilot over here. When I need help he's the guy.  He started his apprenticeship in his early 20's and depending on when you read this he’ll be about 20 years deep in this HVAC adventure. He's a Licensed and Bonded Certified Journeyman right in his prime. Homeowner's love him which is a must for me but equally important to me is that other tradespeople really like working around him on the job too. This easy going vibe is huge for me as far as how smooth the projects go and it helps with how the clients remember their HVAC adventure with us.  Abe gets that we are trying to build a business that allows for the Monday through Friday grind to be fun and something to look forward to. He wants to create a catalog of well built systems around town with his name on it, all owned by clients who tell others about us. For Abe it is a simple formula; do good work, make the people happy, build a good life. He's GreenTech gold as far as I'm concerned, I couldn’t do this without him. I try and make sure there is a strong list of reasons why you should hire GreenTech and Abe being my co-pilot is a huge reason to hire us. 

One hurdle for Abe and myself is we both love the same live music and music festivals so trying to not be gone at the same time throughout the year is brutal. He joined our jamband live music party crew way back before he joined GreenTech so we've got our groove down after this many years of hangs. Balancing work and play once festival season hits is hard. Summers are tough on us folks!

If you've made it this far down the page...thank you for taking the time to look us up and read this. We work hard to stand out from the crowd and I'm very proud of our little GreenTech Team and what we do in town. If you need a new HVAC system, you should have us out for a look, we are a great hire.

Best, Scott Akin