Your best service call ever

[cowboyjwc]

Maybe. I've been accused of being a little dense when it comes to women flirting with me. I usually opt towards, "prob'ly not" rather than "How you doin'"

That's usually a good call.

A guy I know tells the story about the house wife hitting on all the workers, one day the tile guy gives in and get's a little. He goes to submit his bill and she tells him that he's already been paid, he may have forgotten maybe he should ask his wife.:smile: That cost him about $3,000.

 

[cirving]

I have a couple; one was a couple of weeks ago where a makeup mirror reflecting the sun almost caught the house on fire (8x10 glossy photos here)

Went on a warranty call to a new house years ago where the HO said there was no switch for the Jacuzzi. I trace down the wires in the attic to see where the switch was and find a receptacle installed in its place. I take out the receptacle, install a switch and it works fine. That?s when the HO decides to tell me that that receptacle never worked, but when his wife plugged a blow dryer into it, the Jacuzzi came on!!! That would have been nice to know before I crawled all over the attic.

Then there was the guy that was getting shocked while sitting on the throne, It turns out he had the bathroom wallpapered a few days earlier with a foil backed wallpaper. The paper hangers cut the wall paper then tucked it back in the box, touching the hot screw on a receptacle, making the whole wall hot! This was in the pre GFCI days. When he would reach for the TP, he would get a nice buzz.:-?

 

[Ebow]

The chirping SD reminds me of a call I had a few years ago when I got back from vacation. Customer had called about a bad SD but could not figure out which one. My partner at the time had gone over and changed all the batteries but the chirp continued. So he suggested it was the Alarm System. The alarm guy came over checked everything out and said no it was the SD. A couple days after I got back he calls and says the chirp is driving him crazy and would I come look for it.
I walk in and sure enough there is this chirp every five seconds like clockwork. I could tell it was not any of the SD, but in the vaulted cieling area of the kitchen, family room and dining room the chirp always came from the other side of the room no matter where I stood. We finally stood at three different corners of the area and pointed to the direction of where we heard the chirp come from, the kitchen island. I then noticed that the DW was not totally shut, so I shut it and the chirp quit. Upon reading the manual on the high dollar DW we discovered that if it was interupted before the end of the cycle it would beep as a reminder. The HO admitted that he had taken a coffee cup out of it while it was stll in the drying mode two weeks earlier and had not closed the door because the dishes were 'done'.
He even was good natured enough about it when he wrote the check for the third service call for his "mistake".

Gene
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Remember - Speed Kills and its not always you.

 

[ce2two]

a friend of mine who lived next door to me , a couple years ago ..came over to my house on 110 degree day in the summer, in a panic my air conditioner won't work .....so i went up in the attic to check the FAU ,the door to the (FAU) had fallen off killing power to to the low volt trans - former which fed the thermostat......the 24 volts it needs .....secured door to fau ...fixed for case of beer...

 

[maloo]

Not realy a service call but a teacher told me a story were a were an architect wanted wanted to control lighting from 5 diffrent locations but "no one makes a five way switch."

 

[Karl H]

I have a couple; one was a couple of weeks ago where a makeup mirror reflecting the sun almost caught the house on fire (8x10 glossy photos here)

Went on a warranty call to a new house years ago where the HO said there was no switch for the Jacuzzi. I trace down the wires in the attic to see where the switch was and find a receptacle installed in its place. I take out the receptacle, install a switch and it works fine. That?s when the HO decides to tell me that that receptacle never worked, but when his wife plugged a blow dryer into it, the Jacuzzi came on!!! That would have been nice to know before I crawled all over the attic.

Then there was the guy that was getting shocked while sitting on the throne, It turns out he had the bathroom wallpapered a few days earlier with a foil backed wallpaper. The paper hangers cut the wall paper then tucked it back in the box, touching the hot screw on a receptacle, making the whole wall hot! This was in the pre GFCI days. When he would reach for the TP, he would get a nice buzz.:-?

The "Make-up" mirror post was some really good CSI work. I really enjoyed
reading that BTW.