Let's just skip to the end of the story, shall we?
Riley was efficient, cost effective, very knowledgeable, charming as hell and more than willing to go into the details of the issue at hand at 10pm. We will be using him again and again.
Thanks Riley!!
Earlier that day...
Wife texts and says the AC is off upstairs and the thermostat is dead. Of course I'm at work, so I Google replacement thermostats in case I can get it to work using the downstairs thermostat and I'll just switch it out to a new one. Hoping this was it anyway.
I get home, replace the CR-2032 battery along with the AA's as well and find no joy.
The house is only three years old so at 4:15 I call the subcontractor the builder used. Their phones rolled to an answering service at 4. An hour later someone called back, listened to the problem and told me it's probably a shutoff switch in the drip pan. Ok, I go check, it is full of water and sure enough it shut off power, so I call back. An hour later I call back again.
I then begin Googling, looking on Nextdoor and a local Facebook group. Several people mentioned a guy named Riley with a business called Red Rock Refrigeration and he lives less than a mile from me.
By the time I call, it is just after 8pm. He immediately answers, says of course he can come, the price at the time of night is currently the same as the rate during the day, he just finished a job around Arrowhead and will be here in 25 minutes. I text him my address and wait.
Twenty plus minutes later, sure enough, he pulls up. Introduces himself, checks a few things here and there and up into the attic he goes.
He comes back down, shows me his phone and breaks down the what, why and how he will fix this. It turns out that, surprise, the subcontractor the builder used made shortcuts and unrelated, left a vent completely disconnected so we were cooling our attic as well.
He made short work of the repair. When it was completed, he showed us before and after photos of what it initially looked like compared to the state after he finished.
He recommended we have him revisit in March before it gets hot to check the coolant and roam around the attic again. I set a reminder on my phone that night. read more