As you know I have been without heat for a while now and this morning there was a glimmer of hope. When I left the office I called the HVAC man to inform him that I was leaving work and will be arriving at the apartment in 25 minutes. When I walked in the door, there was still no power and no sign of anyone awaiting my arrival. After roughly 20 minutes of tidying up the place, I got a knock on the door. Shortly after they began disassembling the old broiler (65 years old!) I get another knock on the door. It’s the electrician to figure out the power outage issue. As I’m showing all these people where the necessary switch boxes and transformers are, I get another knock on the door. Pepco. After about 45 minutes my power turns on! YAYAY!
I wait a bit will they work on my broiler, throwing pieces out the back door and making a huge guncky black mess on my floor.
“Hi, sorry to bother you but I need to take off and got back to work, do you mind locking the door on your way out?”
HVAC “Oh, well actually we have a broiler but we have to go pick it up.”
“Oh, this is news to me. I thought it hadn’t arrived yet?”
HVAC “Oh no we’ve had it. We need another 15-20 minutes to finish taking this one out and then we have to go pick the other one up. Should be back in 20-25 minutes.”
“Okay well I’ll wait till you get back and then I’ll take off how does that sound?”
Waiting. Waiting Waiting. After a little over an hour AFTER they left I called the receptions number “Oh I’m sorry I can’t get ahold of them.”
So basically I ending up leaving a note on my back door saying to lock it on their way out. I had to leave the door unlocked for them….
I get home late that night to discover...THERE IS HEAT IN MY APARTMENT! YAYAYAYA!
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