JROD
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- Location
- North Carolina
I?m posting this note for advice, to vent, leave myself open to criticism and as an example of what not to do.
Two weeks ago I got a call from a lady who is replacing her ceiling fan and she has an extra red wire coming out of the ceiling and she doesn?t know what to do with it. Feeling chivalrous and concerned for her safety I agree to come out and take a look at it. She is replacing her ceiling fan with a remote control fan and the installation only requires a hot and neutral. I disconnect and cap off the red and I wire the unit. As I?m getting ready to leave she shows me a black rubber gasket that was left over from the fan/unit that she put together and asks what she should do with it. Since it was a call out and she was on the clock she decided it wasn?t worth me looking into it.
Fast forward two weeks and she calls me this weekend because she wants landscaping lights installed and to complain that her fan wobbles when it runs, when the fan starts turning the light fixture on the fan shifts an 1/8? and goes back to place after the fan stops running and when she dims the lights on the fan there is a low humming noise coming from the unit. She is afraid to run the fan or the lights. All of these things the fan did two weeks ago when she signed off and accepted the work because she didn?t want to pay me to look into those ?minor things?. The kicker she said to me that her mother bought the same fan and had installed by a professional electrician and it doesn't do those things and she wants me to fix her fan because that she is afraid to use the fan until it is fixed.
Two weeks ago I got a call from a lady who is replacing her ceiling fan and she has an extra red wire coming out of the ceiling and she doesn?t know what to do with it. Feeling chivalrous and concerned for her safety I agree to come out and take a look at it. She is replacing her ceiling fan with a remote control fan and the installation only requires a hot and neutral. I disconnect and cap off the red and I wire the unit. As I?m getting ready to leave she shows me a black rubber gasket that was left over from the fan/unit that she put together and asks what she should do with it. Since it was a call out and she was on the clock she decided it wasn?t worth me looking into it.
Fast forward two weeks and she calls me this weekend because she wants landscaping lights installed and to complain that her fan wobbles when it runs, when the fan starts turning the light fixture on the fan shifts an 1/8? and goes back to place after the fan stops running and when she dims the lights on the fan there is a low humming noise coming from the unit. She is afraid to run the fan or the lights. All of these things the fan did two weeks ago when she signed off and accepted the work because she didn?t want to pay me to look into those ?minor things?. The kicker she said to me that her mother bought the same fan and had installed by a professional electrician and it doesn't do those things and she wants me to fix her fan because that she is afraid to use the fan until it is fixed.