Intrastate came out to diagnose an issue with my heating/cooling. The diagnosis was that the compressor went out and either the whole unit should be replaced or the compressor be replaced. Both options were presented to my home warranty company. The home warranty company elects to only replace the compressor.
I re-contact Intrastate and inform them that the compressor was just recently replaced in 2015 and I'm concerned there may be something wrong with the unit, as a compressor should last more than 3 years. They put the dispatch technician on the phone and I ask him his opinion. He stated that the unit looked fine. I followed up by asking, why he thought the compressor had to be replaced since it was just recently replaced. He gave me the process of what goes on during a compressor replacement and says he believes the process was not followed correctly because of the acid build up (or whatever his explanation was). I ask if they passed that information to the home warranty and they stated no. I asked them specifically what do I need to do to get that information to the home warranty and they said just have them call us.
I re-contacted my home warranty because I did not feel I should have to pay the cost of refrigerant (not covered as part of the compressor repair) since it was explained to me that the original repair most likely caused the pre-mature death of the replacment compressor. The home warranty company researched my account and found that the compressor was replaced in 2015 by.....INTRASTATE. She attempted to contact them and left a voice mail and e-mail.
I re-contacted Instrastate and their original explanation to me CHANGED and they stated they never said anything I told the home warranty company. If they didn't tell me that, then WHY did I contact my home warranty with their explanation. Why did I even contact them in the first place. The person answering the phone said he heard the entire conversation and something about oil (never mentioned on the call by the way) and compressors could be damaged in transit and etc et etc. All these "new" reasons that were not explained on the initial call. He stated that his dispatch technician never said it was a faulty repair because no one could know or prove that. Ok, fair enough, maybe it was an assumption but it was STILL explained to me that was his diagnosis of the failure. None of the other items were mentioned. So why was that not passed on to home warranty? Why did the story change when all of the sudden we now know it was Intrastate that did the repair? He even went as far as to say, my dispatch tech is here and on speaker, do you want to call him a liar?
As a result, I'm getting a second opinion from a different company. I will never have this shady, lying, rude and dishonest company ever work on any of my homes. I'll be sure to hit up every review site I can with this same information as well. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM. I can understand a simple miscommunication, but this was a complete 180 degree change of story once they knew they were the original company that did the initial repair. read more