Been a loyal customer since 2005 when this house was built. They were always wonderful until recently when my experience has been the opposite. Here is a rundown of the most recent nightmare. I need to calculate the number of hours of wasted waiting for phantom repairmen and spent trying to arrange visits, surely more than the number of hours in labor it would take to fix my new problem that only arose immediately following a service visit that finally occurred:
March 8 scheduled appt for March 9 (six month maintenance).
March 9 got a text that to provide me with the best service (yes, that's what it said) they were cancelling my appt and asked if April 3 8:00am-12:00 was good. I answered "no, any day after 5:00pm is ok." Did not hear back about rescheduling otherwise.
March 25 made an appt for March 29 before 10:00pm
March 27 got a text confirming the April 3 appt that I already stated I did not want or ask for, figured I'd tell the tech on March 29 about this weird appt on April 3 and to cancel it.
March 28 got text confirming March 29 appt before 10:00pm.
March 29 got text confirming dispatch of tech Yoandy. It was drizzling for a few minutes and I was told maintenance could not be done due to rain and it was never performed. I called and rescheduled for the following Sunday, April 5, and after a minute or two they confirmed it popped up in their system as an appt on the schedule. They never mention an existing April 3 appointment in the system so I figured it was no longer an issue.
April 3 got a text to confirm the not-wanted appt for that day and texted back "no, I have an appointment for Sunday the 5th."
April 3 at 9:25am a text message said a tech was dispatched and I immediately called to say no one was home, did not want April 3 visit but wanted to keep my Sunday April 5 visit. AI bot confirmed exactly what I said "cancel today's appointment but keep April 5 appointment. Got it." Came home to the tag on my door saying the tech came to the house and no one was home and he left.
April 5, of course, no one showed for the confirmed Sunday appointment, despite waiting all day yet again.
4/28 Scheduled appt for May 1 between 6:00-10:00pm. No one showed, was not notified again.
May 2 scheduled visit before 5:00pm. Kept texting for ETA to find after 5:00pm the visit was rescheduled between 4:00-8:00pm as they were running behind. At 8:34pm I texted ETA to find my visit was magically reschedule for the next day, May 3, between 8:00am-12:00pm.
May 3 fayyaz from delair showed up and performed some maintenance. He was told to tell me since "I missed my April 3 appt" it was going to cost $ for my already prepaid visit, I explained the previous problems with scheduling and he made a call and I was not charged. After doing some maintenance he said I had a leak in the coil and it would be ~$3500 in labor to fix/replace. I said I didn't have that $ available at the moment and I bought the unit from Delair a few years ago, sad to hear about the leak, I'll call to get it fixed asap. Since the time he left the unit has been running 24 hours a day and not cooling the house. It was working properly up until his arrival so I did not understand, and it was not made clear, that this suddenly meant "if you don't fix it now you will not have any AC since it has been working fine even this morning."
After a few days of obviously no cooling with the unit running all day I felt I needed to speak with someone to clarify if something was missed during that maintenance or if I misunderstood something so I scheduled another service visit since it was working prior to most recent svc visit.
Saturday May 9 appt scheduled before noon. 2:00 text said running behind schedule. 5:00pm text said Yoandy was dispatched to my home. Never showed. I thought I was still patiently waiting so at 7:11pm I texted ETA to get "our records show today's service visit has been completed". No one ever came to my home.
Scheduled May 10 svc visit between 1:00-5:00 that delair changed to between 4:00-8:00pm and at 8:40pm I texted eta and was told I was still on the schedule and thank god John showed up around 9:00pm and was very informative giving me more info than previous visit and confirmed it will not cool the house until I spend $4k to repair the unit that was only a few years old purchased new from delair (carrier unit). Previous AC unit lasted 20 years so it's sad to find that I'm on the hook for thousands of dollars on a relatively new AC unit.
Also their system had not been updated to reflect the visit from the previous week so there were no notes or photographs for John to refer. Of course they had a note in the system that I had missed my April 3 appt (the one I did not want or need and tried on three occasions to alert them of this). The only previous notes were of a September and November visit but nothing of the appointments they did not keep or "completed" when no one visited. Very disappointed to say the least. read more