He did eventually get the air conditioning issue fixed. The cause of the hot house? See when they moved in the original thermostat was not working. The repair guy came out and replaced the original with a new thermostat. The problem? The new thermostat was not calibrated. So it was off by 5 full degrees. When the thermostat read 75? It was actually 80 degrees. Oh boy!
I got a call from this neighbor yesterday morning. He and his family had been gone for about 5 days. Their last vacation away before his kids start school next week. They got home Sunday night about 9pm after a long 8 hour drive. They came home...to NO WATER. When he went to see what the issue was he found a note taped to his front door. The water company had come by and turned off his water.
"Uh-oh, right?"
No. It wasn't his fault. Directly. Turns out that one of the neighbors around here was taking a stroll around and saw water spouting out of the rocks in my neighbor's yard. So this good neighbor calls someone. The water gets turned off because of a pipe leaking.
The pipe that was leaking? It was pipe that got put in by those knucklehead soft water installers. The guys who someone got ROCKS in the pipes when they initially installed it?
Well, it all got fixed by 10:30am Monday morning. Turns out as I was chatting with my neighbor, he was walking around to his front yard. He found the hole that the leaking pipe was in? It was filled in. The installers had come and gone and had not bothered to let him know that they'd fixed it all up. Again...knuckleheads!
Goes to show you that you should THINK TWICE before going with the lowest bidder.....
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