So, I charged a little less than two hundred dollars today on my credit card for the service man who came and looked at my furnace.
It turns out that the morons who owned this house before me have come back to bite me in the butt again. See, when they wired the thermostat, they used different one different colored wire. Instead of the wire being green, it was black.
So, after the bathroom remodel, when we went to hook back up the thermostat, we matched the black wire to the black connector.
No, no, nooooo. By doing this, the blower motor stays on 24 hours a day, unless you manually flip the switch. Obviously, we didn’t realize this. Otherwise, I could of fixed the problem. Tom’s dad even came out and looked at it all!
Right. So, literally, the dude comes out, looks at the furnace, looks at the thermostat and said the wiring was messed up. Then proceeded to unconnect the black wire, put it on the green connector and *presto* problem solved.
$183.00 for this folks.
$79.00 for the analysis of the problem.
$99.00 to connect the wire to the correct terminal.
Right.
I will totally come over to someone’s house and connect a wire for $99. Any takers?
Friday, 26. October 2007
that is FUCKED up
Friday, 26. October 2007
Argh. That is so frustrating! But I have heard of the green/black wire changing before. You shoulda just asked me.
This happened to us when we put in some new outlet things….we took the old ones off and went, err…this doesn’t match! So we finally figured it out through the help of Doug’s dad who was an electrician in the Navy 280 years ago or something.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Blue - Believe me, I know!! I’m so not happy about it.
KG - Well, damn…. you should of read my mind or something. Yeah, its your fault! Somehow!
Friday, 26. October 2007
I NO NUFFINK
Whyforehowcome my avatar doesn’t show up?
I’m all registered with them. Have been for oh I dunno…..70506 years or something. What? I don’t exaggerate!
Friday, 26. October 2007
I NO NOFFINK EITHER!
I literally set up 5 different people’s gravatars last night. 4 took, one hasn’t kicked in yet. I don’t know what the deal is.
uh, maybe Gravatar hates your guts.
Friday, 26. October 2007
OMFG. Nuuuuuu! I even went to the site and it says the same gravatar and email and everything. I registered for your blog, too. Maybe that makes a difference?
Friday, 26. October 2007
PS - Because I am slow, why would a person need to register at my blog? I mean, I think its cool. It makes me feel important.. but what does it do?
Friday, 26. October 2007
There is a plugin that you can use to make private posts that only registered users with a certain permission can see.
Friday, 26. October 2007
ooooh, really? I haven’t found that plug in yet!
Friday, 26. October 2007
what did you do to fix your gravatar?!!?
Friday, 26. October 2007
That just isn’t right. This type of thing makes my blood boil cuz had the previous owners not been such idiots, you’d have $193 to spend on something else. Or buy a lot of cappucinos.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Jane - OOoh, cappuccinos! You’ve made me crave one now.
PS - I WANT MORE SMILEYS! Does anyone know how to work that stuffs?
Friday, 26. October 2007
Yeah, really. I never used it because I was plug in retarded. And I don’t use it on my EE blog because EYM DUM and I don’t know how to do anything on it. I’m always afraid I’m gonna blow it up and then cry to Rachel to fix it for me and then she’ll be all mad and stuff at me for fucking it up and then I’ll be sad and cry and throw myself off the Golden Gate Bridge.
I didn’t do anything to fix my gravatar. You must have been right, gravatar hates my guts.
Friday, 26. October 2007
There is a plugin for smilies.
Friday, 26. October 2007
I don’t know how to do even the most basic of anything online. Or anywhere, for that matter.
Friday, 26. October 2007
KG - I know there are plug ins for smilies. I can’t get any of them to work besides the one I have now. I don’t understand why your gravatar started working, but… hey… sweet.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Jane - Really? Who does all your cool blog stuff for you?
Friday, 26. October 2007
I don’t remember what smilies I used. The people making the plugins should start updating it to work with the latest version of WP. Another reason why wordpress drove me near to insane.
Friday, 26. October 2007
KG - Gah! Who’s the wordpress guru, then? I want smilies that work, dammit!
Friday, 26. October 2007
I always had Danalyn fix my shit.
Joefish knows a right smart amount about Wordpress. He makes the plugins and stuff you know.
Friday, 26. October 2007
That depends on what cool stuff you mean. TJ did the character, everything else was done by Rachel. The last time I tried to do something with my blog, I deleted it, so now I’m scared to death!
Friday, 26. October 2007
KG - I know of Danalyn and Joefish, but not well enough to ask for favors, by any means!
Jane - That character is awesome!! And Rachel kicks ass, too. I’ve not yet deleted my blog - but have messed some things up fairly severely on blogger…
Friday, 26. October 2007
TJ has some very cool free designs @ zazzafooky.com.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Yah, I looked at your blogroll and I dunno if any of those ones know anything about Wordpress. Avi might.
Friday, 26. October 2007
Jane - Thanks for the heads up! I’ll go check them out!
KG - Yeah, I think I’m out of luck unless I start kissing someone’s backside, or someone stumbles upon this place and offers their words of wisdom.
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Don’t feel bad, my husband was an electrician for 20 years, but this one house was so jacked up he couldn’t figure it out. It was the same thing, people not using the proper colored wires. You don’t want to mess with their mistakes.
I can hook up an outlet or light fixture properly, I know that damn much, but only if everything is there and the right color in the first place!
P.S.- yeah you should look at TJ’s designs, they are cute and free!
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Now watch your electric bill go down! @@
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Annie - It seems the previous owners DIY jobs will come back to haunt me forever in this house!!
Kat - I wish, but regretfully, I don’t think so.
Saturday, 27. October 2007
Holy Cow..I get hit with a virus at the home computer and everyone goes and has major issues…
Kay..you may need to have the rest of the wiring checked.
I know, I know..s**t
Sunday, 28. October 2007
I still can’t believe that. I mean I can…but I can’t. Bastards!! He must have known you have lots of money to blow out your ass. Bastards!! I hate the way they screw you over. Bastards!! Acting like it was such an problem for them tocome fix someone’s heat. Did I say BASTARDS?!!!
Monday, 29. October 2007
Dude, I think that I want that guys job. Maybe you should consider this path for a career change…..
Poor lady that totally sucks bad.