ohfrugalone
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2008
- Messages
- 71
I am hoping someone has some experience in this area or can give me advice.
So my heater did not come on by itself this year and I know it is getting older (like me) and will need replacing soon, but the plumber came out and worked on it and said it is fine, it is the electrical connection not working.
So then I got an electrician out and he said the wires are basically just not connected to anything, or they wore out this year though they had been connected somewhere for all of these 18 years I have been living in this house. So my options were going to be - he can wrap a cord around the house and connect it to my electrical panel in the ac switch for $600.00, and that would not be entirely legal, or I could get a new electrical panel upgraded to like 200 amps, because 200 would not be significantly more than any smaller upgrade - I am currently at 70, and I am looking at probably getting a combo heater/refrig air in the future since I can not have a heating unit outside unless it is a combo.
He has told me he thought it would be between $2,500 - $3,000. He had the electric company out today while I was at work and they told him, that he would need to move my meter from the back of the house to the side of the house and I guess put the electric panel there also. They want the meter at the side of the house to make it easier for meter readers. Now that will take more money - there is the cost of the wire (which I said electrical wire is not gold - and i doubt he will use copper) and of course all of that labor and now he cannot get me an estimate until next week.
OH and the transformer in my yard (the pole feeds the four houses) is old, and good news they will get me a new free transformer for my a/c.
I kind of feel like maybe I have sucker stamped on my forehead. And of course I am being held hostage. I don't have a working heater..
Does anyone know about this sort of thing. I mean it sounds like the electric meter being moved could be expensive, etc.I will try and call the electric company tomorrow, but I have never even had much luck with the customer service speaking to me about the bill, I am not sure they will talk to me.
Do you think the electric company would hold me hostage like that? Someone is.
So my heater did not come on by itself this year and I know it is getting older (like me) and will need replacing soon, but the plumber came out and worked on it and said it is fine, it is the electrical connection not working.
So then I got an electrician out and he said the wires are basically just not connected to anything, or they wore out this year though they had been connected somewhere for all of these 18 years I have been living in this house. So my options were going to be - he can wrap a cord around the house and connect it to my electrical panel in the ac switch for $600.00, and that would not be entirely legal, or I could get a new electrical panel upgraded to like 200 amps, because 200 would not be significantly more than any smaller upgrade - I am currently at 70, and I am looking at probably getting a combo heater/refrig air in the future since I can not have a heating unit outside unless it is a combo.
He has told me he thought it would be between $2,500 - $3,000. He had the electric company out today while I was at work and they told him, that he would need to move my meter from the back of the house to the side of the house and I guess put the electric panel there also. They want the meter at the side of the house to make it easier for meter readers. Now that will take more money - there is the cost of the wire (which I said electrical wire is not gold - and i doubt he will use copper) and of course all of that labor and now he cannot get me an estimate until next week.
OH and the transformer in my yard (the pole feeds the four houses) is old, and good news they will get me a new free transformer for my a/c.
I kind of feel like maybe I have sucker stamped on my forehead. And of course I am being held hostage. I don't have a working heater..
Does anyone know about this sort of thing. I mean it sounds like the electric meter being moved could be expensive, etc.I will try and call the electric company tomorrow, but I have never even had much luck with the customer service speaking to me about the bill, I am not sure they will talk to me.
Do you think the electric company would hold me hostage like that? Someone is.