I feel like I’ve been through the wringer, people.
So we had our new HVAC company come out to replace the compressor last Friday. After it was in, they could not get the unit to start up. They returned yesterday, tinkered around with it some more and discovered that the new compressor was bad from the factory. They went and got new compressor #2 and installed that, finally got it running, and discovered that the reversing valve is bad. The reversing valve is the thingee that makes it cool instead of heat and vice versa.
When they called me this morning, they apologized (for what? for us having a piece of crap heatpump?) and said that they would NOT charge us for any work done thus far. They offered us a new Carrier heatpump with some compatibility widgets that will make it work with our indoor air blower.
So we’re going to go with that. It will cost us $2500. This whole back and forth of will we? won’t we? (have to replace everything) has left me very irritable and crabby.
Yay.
Mr. 99k is lucky that nothing came flying at his head in the midst of my crabbiness, like say, a shoe, or perhaps the cat.
It could be worse.
We could have been out for the compressor replacement labor and cost of freeon AND $2500. Still, I’m not going to breathe easy until the darn thing is actually INSTALLED AND WORKING.
Working for a week straight.
Ah well.