The Home Care Plan is an annual membership: two scheduled inspection visits a year covering roof, gutters, plumbing, sump, HVAC, electrical and the envelope of the house, small repairs handled during the visit, priority scheduling when something breaks, and a standing discount on every repair we quote you. Proposed pricing is $395 a year for Home Care Basic and $795 a year for Home Care Plus. It isn't insurance and it isn't a home warranty — it's the twice-a-year walk-through your house has never had, done by the contractor who'd be fixing whatever it finds anyway.
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The Home Care Plan is an annual membership: two scheduled inspection visits a year covering roof, gutters, plumbing, sump, HVAC, electrical and the envelope of the house, small repairs handled during the visit, priority scheduling when something breaks, and a standing discount on every repair we quote you. Typical price: $395 – $795 / year. Licensed & insured, written itemized price before work starts, no deposit, one dedicated crew. Serving all 21 New Jersey counties from Paramus. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free estimate.
Spring is the water visit. Winter is what breaks a house in New Jersey: freeze-thaw opens masonry joints and flashing, ice loads bend gutters and pull hangers out of soft fascia, snowmelt finds the grading problem you've had for ten years. So in spring we're on the ladder at the roof edge, we flush the gutters and the underground drains, we check the grading and the window wells, we look at the sill plate and the crawl space, we test the sump and the backup battery under load, and we look for the stain in the basement that means this year's melt got in somewhere new.
Fall is the heat and safety visit. Filters, condensate line, float switch, flue and venting, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, the panel checked for heat at the lugs, the dryer vent cleared, hose bibs shut and drained, and the last gutter cleaning after the oaks finally let go in November. That's also when we walk the roof for anything the summer storms lifted, because a shingle that's loose in October is a leak in January.
Both visits end the same way: a written report with photos, split into three lists — fixed today, watch this, and fix this before it costs you. Nothing on that third list is a scare tactic, and nothing on it is a bid you have to take from us.
Two visits, the whole checklist, gutters and downspouts done, filters changed, sump and detectors tested, a photo report after each visit, and up to one hour of small repairs included per visit. Priority scheduling on normal service calls and 5% off anything we quote. Best for a newer house, a condo or a townhouse, or someone who mostly wants eyes on it twice a year.
Everything in Basic, plus up to two hours of small repairs per visit, a water heater flush, a dryer vent cleaning, one 24/7 emergency call a year with the after-hours premium waived, and front-of-the-board dispatch when you do have an emergency. 10% off anything we quote. Best for a house over about 30 years old, a shore or second home, a rental you don't live near, or a parent's house you're keeping an eye on.
Parts are billed at cost and listed on the report. Anything that isn't a small fix — a new water heater, a roof, a compressor, a panel — is quoted separately at your member discount. Roof work above a second story, anything requiring scaffolding, and anything behind a wall gets its own price. We'd rather tell you that here than at your kitchen table.
It means what it sounds like and nothing more. When you call, you're identified as a plan member before anyone asks what's wrong. On a normal service call you go ahead of non-members on the day's board, which in practice is usually the difference between today and Thursday. On an emergency — and a real person answers 24/7, member or not — plan members get dispatched first out of whoever is available, and Plus members get one after-hours call a year without the premium.
What it is not: a guarantee that we can be at your house in fifteen minutes during a nor'easter when every basement in Bergen County is filling at once. We're not going to promise you a number we can't hit in the worst weather of the year. What we will do is answer the phone, tell you the truth about when we can be there, and talk you through the shutoff in the meantime.
It is not insurance and it is not a home warranty. It does not pay for a new furnace, a new roof or a failed compressor, and it doesn't reimburse you for anything. Those products exist, they have deductibles and denial clauses, and they are a different thing entirely. If someone sells you a 'maintenance plan' that implies it covers replacements, read the exclusions page.
What you're buying is attention: two thorough looks at the whole house a year by people who build houses, the small stuff handled while we're standing there, a written record with photos that's genuinely useful when you sell, and a line to the front when something goes wrong. Most of what it catches is cheap — a $14 washer hose that would have been a $9,000 basement, a float switch that would have been a ceiling, a flashing detail that would have been a rotted rim joist. That's the whole pitch, and we'd rather undersell it than oversell it.
Based in Paramus, serving all 21 New Jersey counties — 219+ towns. Same foreman on your visits wherever we can, so the person walking your roof in October is the one who saw it in April.
typical fixed-price range — your exact number goes in writing after a free visit
Home Care Basic — $395 a year. Two visits, the full inspection checklist, a written photo report after each visit, gutters cleaned and downspouts flushed, filters changed, sump and detectors tested, and up to one hour of small repairs per visit. Priority scheduling on normal service calls. 5% off anything we quote you.
Home Care Plus — $795 a year. Everything in Basic, plus up to two hours of small repairs per visit, water heater flush, dryer vent cleaning, one emergency call a year with no after-hours premium, front-of-the-board dispatch on emergencies, and 10% off anything we quote you. Parts are billed at cost either way, listed on the report.
How we beat the big chains: Most 'membership plans' in this state are a single-trade company buying a yearly excuse to pitch you a new system. We're a general contractor — roof, plumbing, electric, HVAC and carpentry under one roof — so the visit covers the whole house and there's nothing we need to sell you. No franchise fees, no commissioned salesmen, no rented subcontractors — that's typically 15–30% under national-brand quotes for the same or better spec.
“I paid a heating company for a 'membership' for six years and all it ever bought me was a technician telling me every spring that my system was on its last legs.”
“I called my contractor in January about a small leak and never heard back. He only wants the big jobs.”
“The 'annual inspection' was a twelve-minute walk-through and a checklist with half the boxes blank.”
You found a crew that is actually near you. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus, in Bergen County, and our own licensed techs handle home care plan in all 21 New Jersey counties — no call center, no subcontractor sent from two states away. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies go to the nearest crew, 24/7.
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Call (201) 676-3099, text us a photo, or book a free in-home estimate — you get a written price before any work starts.
Home Care Basic is $395 a year and Home Care Plus is $795 a year, both billed annually and both including two full visits. Parts are at cost, and anything larger than a small fix is quoted separately at your member discount — 5% on Basic, 10% on Plus.
No. It doesn't pay to replace anything and it doesn't reimburse you. It's scheduled inspection and maintenance, small repairs done on the visit, priority scheduling and a repair discount. Anyone selling a 'plan' that implies it replaces your furnace is selling a warranty product, and those come with deductibles and exclusions.
You get it in the report with photos and an honest urgency rating — fix now, fix this season, or watch it. Then a written itemized price at your member discount, good for 90 days, with no deposit. You are never obligated to use us, and we'll tell you plainly when something can wait a year.
For the exterior half, no. For the interior checks — water heater, sump, panel, under-sink, detectors — someone has to let us in, or you can leave a key or a lockbox code. Out-of-state and shore-home owners do the second one all the time, and the photo report is how you see what happened.
Yes, any time, and we'll prorate the unused visit. No cancellation fee, no auto-renew you have to fight. If you've already used both visits for the year, the year is used — that's the only catch, and it's the obvious one.
Yes to all three. Condos and townhouses usually fit Basic since the association owns the roof and the exterior. Rentals and shore houses usually want Plus, because the value is in someone checking the place when you aren't there and catching the leak before a tenant calls you at midnight.
If you're anywhere in New Jersey, yes. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus and handles home care plan across all 21 counties with our own licensed crew. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies are dispatched to the nearest crew 24/7. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free in-home estimate.
Two visits · a photo report every time · small fixes on the spot · your call to the front of the line
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A real person picks up every hour of every day. We tell you what to shut off first, then send the nearest crew.