How to Choose A Custom Wine Cellar Builder

There are many companies offering their services for building your wine cellar. We want to help you find your future wine cellar builder. This is why we spend the time and effort writing this article. Here are the things you must look when calling a wine cellar builder:

Do they have a license?
How many years in business they have?
What type of materials do they use for their wine racks?
What brand and type of cooling equipment do they install?
Does the company offers a maintenance plan?
What are the reviews of the business?
Ask the company about the process of building their wine cellars

Licensing

An HVAC license could be a Class A or Class B license. Each one has different functions and permits.
In Texas, the scope of work is different for each one of the different types of licenses. Class A HVAC license has no restrictions to the machines that can be serviced. Class B HVAC licenses restricts activities to cooling and heating systems depending a specified size or energy requirements.
Each license has different tests and materials that need to be covered to attain the licenses. All licenses need to be maintained after you attain the license.

Years in Business

This is something important you need to ask. With years in business comes reliability and trust. The more years in business the better experience the company is going to have. Also, the more reviews the company should have so you can see if they are a good fit for your needs.

What Types of Materials Used in Wine Cellar

Very important question because you could tell what type of builder is this company. Some questions to ask beside the type of wood they will be working on is the type of vapor barrier, insulation, door materials. They should use commercial grade insulation, do your own research when they tell you what type of insulation or vapor barrier they will use.

What Type of Cooling Unit Will be Used

The cooling unit is the heart of your wine cellar. The wine cellar builder should be able to tell you what is the wine cellar cooling system. The best is always an external unit.
The recommended cooling system is a system that is industrial, made in the USA, that you have warranty over the cooling unit. You should see if the company installing your wine cellar provides and/or honors the warranty of your cooling unit.

Does the Company Provides Maintenance

What happens if your wine cellar has a problem 1 year down the road? What are you going to do to solve the problem. The best people to call is the company who installed and built your wine cellar. Questions to ask is do you provide warranty on your work? For how long? Is the warranty only for the labor, or only for the parts? Does it cover labor and parts?

Reviews for the Business

Another good way of knowing who you are dealing with is by going to their website and looking up reviews. You should ask the business owner for at least 5 references of past customers that you can call and ask about their services. Look at their website and see if they have reviews of real customers on video. Google reviews are a good tool but, lately they are not so reliable. The best proof is videos, you cannot hire so many actors to pose as clients in different wine cellars right? Look up videos of customers!

Process of Building the Wine Cellar

A good stablish company will have a clear road map on how to build your wine cellar from start to completion.
Questions to ask in this stage are:
What about the cost?
What kind of warranty do you offer?
Does the warranty covers the equipment? Does it cover the labor?
What are the requirements for the construction of the wine cellar?
Do you have a contract?
What kind of materials do you use?
What kind of cooling system do you use?
Do you have a license for installing air conditioners or cooling units?
What is going to be the timeline for the project?
All of these questions should be answered by your wine cellar builder contractor. A reputable wine cellar builder should have a warranty of 1 year in labor and honor the warranty of the cooling units.

What’s more, the contractor should have a clear roadway of the stages of building the wine cellar very well defined and you should also have a timeline with the milestones clearly stated and dated. Once the project starts, you as a future owner should check the proposed timeline and the real stage of the construction of your wine cellar and compare both of them.

Let us know if you have any questions about building a wine cellar in your house. We are happy to help. We provide a FREE consultation always. Additionally, you can also come to our office to see some examples of wine cellars already built in our showroom. You could also look at our wine cellar pictures and see what type of style you like and ask us questions after that.

Call for Free estimates at 713.224.3333 or come visit us at our showroom at 2113 Garden Rd, Pearland, TX 77581. Make an appointment beforehand please so AABC Owner’s will be at the showroom.