Maurice Kirkendoll & Elbert, of Current flow, agree to upgrade the electrical system of my house for the amount of $2500.00, as described in the attached contract. They were supposed to do the work according to the followings contract on May 22, 2018: Basic Service Include: * Remove existing electrical service and circuit breaker panel, and replace with new GE 42 circuit breaker panel with 200 Amp Service with all required breakers.
Following is the list of items to be done as per contract:
Basic Service for the amount of $2,500.00
* Remove existing electrical service and circuit breaker panel, and replace with new GE 42 circuit breaker panel with 200 Amp Service with all required breakers including labeling the breakers
* Relocate and replace new meter hub at the adjacent frame building north wall, base prepared by others
* New 3" solid galvanized steel conduit extended to 6'-0" above the roof with 3" rigid clamp-on electric service weather head cap to ComEd connection, including connecting the service to ComEd
* Move meter to the south wall of the fame building with 200 Amp Service conduits to go along the frame building north wall under the deck to electrical panel room in basement with #3 wires from service head to meter to panel
* All conductors to be black for hot and white for neutral
* Install two new grounding electrodes
* Install Bonding interconnect at the meter for other utilities to ground
* Install GFCI outlet at panel location
* Install #4 ground wires to water meter jumped and tagged
* Replace exterior GFCI with weather resistant and in use covers
* Remove flex conduits at the panel, and replace with solid conduit and wire
Additional Interior Works Based on Feasibility and Economic for the amount of $150.00 per circuit for a total of $450.00
* Change the GFCI outlet outside the frame building to 20 Amp and on a separate circuit
* Separate the circuits of the kitchen and powder room on the east side of the brick building
* Separate the circuit of the bathroom on the second floor of the brick building from the bedrooms
* Separate the circuit of the bathroom in frame building from the bedroom
* Study the circuits of the pool and the garage and make the outlets in the garage 20 Amp
A Payment of $1,250.00 was received by Current Flow Corp. on Wednesday, May 18, 2018, and Current Flow started the job on May 24, 2018, Maurice Kirkendoll and his assistant started at 7:30 AM and Elbert arrived at 10:00 AM, at 6:00 PM, they stopped the work, Elbert left at 6:00 PM and Maurice was very persistent to receive the second installment, even though they had not completed the work based on the first phase of the contract, I refused. He and assistant packed their tools and left. On May 29, 2018, Maurice told me that they can add the three extra breakers for the amount of $450.00 if I pay him the remaining balance and he will finish the entire work on June 19, 2018. On June 19, first Elbert showed up with his son as an assistant and this time Maurice came later. After an hour Elbert and son left as usual without let me know, and Maurice came to tell me they cannot do the job and asked for $150.00 for the hour he spent at the house. First I refused to pay, but he was not leaving the house. As a disabled, I felt safer to pay him and get him out of the house. After their departure, I noticed several items were missing from the garage, such as a 5-gallon air compressor and a battery charger. Current Flow took $2,650.00 from me and left me with an incomplete electric upgrade, unconventional and non-compliance with electric code. This looked like a set-up scenario to take advantage of ordinary people and the disabled.
I would like Current flow to honor their contract by finishing all the items outlined able under the basic service agreement and get their installation approval of the Village of Bellwood Electrical Inspector and refund the $150.00 that they took without fulfilling any of the Additional Interior Works as outlined above and the contract. read more