Situation advice requested

tom_sawyer70 · 2009-12-23T23:46:06+00:00

I'd like to solicit information on how to best deal with a situation Iran into today.After getting a few detailed estimates and getting a recommendationfrom a colleague who owns an apartment complex, we hired a company tocome in and replace our boiler last week with a new, high-efficiencymodel ($5k+). The company is a small one and hires contract labor tohelp them. They're licensed and insured, etc. I think they did agreat job, they were polite, the owner was on site after the firstgroup came in and they worked quietly (as they could).Anyway, today my wife went to pull out this evening's dinner from thechest freezer in our utility room and discovered that the power cordthat runs from the chest freezer to the outlet set near the boiler hadbeen unplugged. We just hauled 5 heavy-duty contractor bags worth offood to the garage to be thrown out.I track what we buy because we buy a lot of it in bulk (bulk meat froma butcher and we belong to 2 CSA's) and the freezer is 9cubic feet orsomething close to it, so I know that we just threw away about $500worth of meat and produce (on-sale, bulk price ... multiple times thatamount at the regular price).I know that the plug was pulled by the contractors, because it's in aspot that the kids cannot reach, we've never had a problem with themin the utility room before and it's the likely spot the contractor'swould have likely used to plug in their tools due to its location.I could not prove that nobody else pulled the plug because it happeneda week ago.I'm relatively non-confrontational and would rather not deal withmajor problems, but this is $500 worth of food ... a lot of which wasnot only bought, but prepped or made into soups, stews, etc. forconsumption through the winter, so there was a cost there too.So on the one hand, I probably should have checked the entire roomafter they left.On the other, I didn't unplug the thing and it was something that theydid that would have never happened if they had not been here.If you were...

Dec 23, 2009 62 Replies

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benick 16 years ago

The contractor never got a chance to offer anything...He doesn't even know about it...Instead of calling him when they first discovered it , he cleaned it up and waited a week and came whining here...Now it's going on 2 weeks and he's still here looking for sympathy...O K , I'll tell the OP what he wants to hear...It's the evil contractors fault...He is probably home laughing right now thinking , there , I got him GOOD...I didn't want his service work anyway...Feel better now ??? Need a hug ?? Sorry , piling on again...Gotta stop doing that...LOL...

.For the record , in my first post I did say the contractor would have split it with him IF he had called when he first discovered it so contractor could see the mess before he cleaned it up.....Now we only have HIS side of the story and in todays sue happy , what can I get for nothing world that just doesn't cut it....Sad but true.......

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Jim Elbrecht 16 years ago

$15

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That isn't the one I have-

I got 2 of these-

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't find anything but "Made in China" on it.

My only complaint is that they aren't real instinctive to set- so don't lose the directions. . . . and if they are put someplace where they can get brushed up against, it is easy to turn the alarm function off. [the display still shows temp-- and there is a little bell to tell if the alarm is on or off]

It isn't loud, but it sure carries. My freezer is in a pantry off the kitchen. If I'm watching TV 3 rooms away, I hear it loud and clear. [well- not so loud-- but it is clear as can be]

I am 60ish- and my hearing is questionable at times-- but maybe it is just one of those pitches that works for me.

Jim

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Stormin Mormon 16 years ago

I hate it when the volume goes down, on my freezer.

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