I have used Edgerton for several years, so when I had a plumbing issue this Spring I called them first. The main drain from my house was backing up into the basement.
They sent someone out that day (Monday), which was fine. He did not have a snake long enough for our septic line so he said they would have to send someone out the next day. Turns out they subcontracted without telling me. So the person who showed up the next day(Tuesday) was from a different place. He did have a longed snake but found nothing...big warning sign as there was clearly still a problem.
I called Edgerton after that visit and asked them what was up, that no one told me they were subcontracting, and I explicitly asked them if I was going to have to pay all the subcontractor charges. They said NO I was not...man I wish I could record calls... I asked this because I was NOT happy with the guy that had showed up, who snaked the line with the longer snake and shrugged, not finding anything.
SO since I cleared that up with Edgerton that I wasn't going to have to pay the subcontractor fee, just their fee, I decided to let them handle it.
So its now Wednesday, and Edgerton arranges for the subcontractor to come out again. They do. They open ONE part of the septic, see that its full and point at it going "There is your problem". He tells me to get it pumped and leaves, like he actually verified that that would fix it..?!
So I get the Septic Pumped that afternoon, but my septic guy said its probably your outlet filter. HE opens that up and see it is pretty clogged and cleans it out. I now have an empty Septic, cleaned outlet from the Septic guy, not the subcontractor. (So awesome, thanks Septic guy for doing a good job.)
Still have problem of course...since the subcontractor never checked anything other than "hey your septic is full".
So now its Thursday...Edgerton continues to arrange to have this terrible subcontractor come out...but hey since I verified with them I wouldn't have to pay for all this I was fine with it, even though the subcontractor was terrible. So the subcontractor sends out a more experienced guy with a trainee. They apologize for the previous failed attempts(which is somewhat nice...they recognize their terrible first attempts) and state that their guys should have opened the septic first thing and opened all 3 openings. So of course the 3rd opening, the INLET had never been looked at. We open it up, big clog, hits it with his shovel and boom water is flowing. Solved.
Aftermath: Edgerton bills me for their service, I pay it right away. A month later they send a bill for all of this subcontractor work. I then proceed to call them to clarify that I had called explicitly about asking that it was on them not me to handle the subcontractor fee. Otherwise I NEVER would have continued using this subcontractor! In the end they denied that could ever be the case, that they would consider absorbing the subcontractor charge. I really didn't care if that made sense or not, but I had called them to ask them if that was the case and they said I wouldn't have to. Bottom line this was a nightmare. Countless phone calls to try and clear this up, Edgerton never budged. I asked them how they could subcontract like this for crappy work. Is it ok for the subcontractor to bill me anything they like and Edgerton will simply "pass that cost along to me"...apparently that is the case....beware. At a minimum Edgerton could have negotiated with the terrible job done by the subcontractor and split the cost with me, a long time good customer. But no, they simply only care about their bottom line and not about losing a good customer, which they most certainly have. (I never had an issue with any of the technicians by the way, so if any read this you guys are fine...its your management team that is terrible) read more