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Posted by cdd on June 8, 2007, 12:55 am
Well I got a phone call from a guy who had a 80,000 btu universal
diesel fired
heater that he said he has installed in his house-qualified mechanic
he says
on the phone, Ive installed the hole system and just need someone that
knows
how to pipe the tank to the unit and fire the burner. Offered me about
$1000
to cover time and fittings etc that he had already worked out.
I thought -well just down the road and off I went too see this heating
unit in place.
When I arrived he showed me the nice return air he had put in- 14"
duct and
grill to suit- that was fine, infact it was the only thing that was
right.
He ran 7 wires to the thermostat-not sure why-the unit being second
hand
allowed him to just copy what was in his old house-perhaps the old
place
had time clock/thermostat/fan only-didn't matter as I installed a
chronotherm
giving him time clock/thermostat with just two wires
The flue just cleared the spouting let alone the ridge by any amount
The heater had not even been cleaned out from the last house.
The unit had not been checked for leaks in the heat exchanger
One of those wires to the thermostat came straight from the switch
board
with obvious results to the uninitiated-
The fan bearings were stuffed
No draft control-It must have been there at some stage as the hole was
in the
flue but he had just slipped the liner over the hole(real helpful for
draft I can tell ya) and
left it.
I got this phone call Monday- after some real renegotiation he decided
to let me remove
it and take it back to the shop.
He just had to install the rest of the ducting and connect it up.
After I rebuilt this 25 year old heater-made new heat exchanger-new
stainless insert
etc etc I returned there today to install the unit and finish the
wiring of the power supply
and thermostat circuit.
It was then I got to see the last thing I expected from a so called
mechanic.
he had finished the hot side of the ducting but run it from the heater
to the
first boot then to the next then the next and so on until his run took
him
back in a semi circle to just 8 feet from the place he started.
just to make things even more difficult for him self against my
advice he ran the main heating duct in 5"- but he went to the
trouble of putting 20'' in the return---grrr
I immediately ask for payment for the rebuild and he says but it's not
going-
I say yes it is but it's tripping out on the top limit as there is not
enough
air flow over the heat exchanger
earlier I received another phone call, this time by the wife-I
explained
the situation and she was under the impression that I had come out
each day and did the work my self(hubby not so honest'a') and he had
paid me around $4000 to do the job-cash??????????
Not I -i told her and she said she would be back in contact with me.
Well she did ring back and now I've got the hole job-
The silly thing is that if they just paid for a rebuild to start with
they would be about $2000 better off. And the heating unit
would operate like new.
It's funny how some people know everything but can do nothing!
cdd
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