Response from Busby's Inc
According to our records, in Augusta of 2007 our Comfort Advisor gave the customers an estimate to replace their system. The customers Chose to hire another company to install their new unit in August of 2008 and cancelled their maintenance agreement with us at that time. On January 21, 2010 they reinvested in a Silver Comfort Club Agreement with us and we performed the first of three maintenance visits on 1/21/2010. The purpose for investing in a maintenance plan is to keep the system clean and operating at peak efficiency as well as identifying potential problems. The only recommendation we made was to add a Safety Switch to protect the customer from any potential water damage. This recommendation was declined. We performed the next maintenance visit on 1/26/2011. The system was cleaned and serviced and no additional repairs were required. On March 11, 2011 we received a call that the Customer's heat was not working. Our technician found that the Heat Strips were not working and the customer requested that we replace the heat strips in the unit. We replaced the heat Strips and the unit was operating properly at that time. The cost to the customer was $326.00. On 2/6/2012 we performed the next maintenance and upon checking the capacitors our technician found a 10MFD Blower Capacitor was reading 8.45MFD. The industry standard for checking capacitors is a plus or minus 10% tolerance on the capacitor. So a 10MFD Capacitor reading 11 or higher or 9 or lower is starting to lose it's capacitance and will eventually wear out. The service technician performing preventive maintenance recommended replacing the capacitor to prevent a future breakdown. Capacitors are like batteries and stored energy, when they fail or get wear it can cause motor damage or motor failure and would require another service call. Everything else was ok with the system. On 9/13/2012, we performed maintenance on the system. This time we found the dual run capacitor of the condenser weak. This capacitor helps start the condenser Fan Motor and the compressor. Again for the same reason we changed the Blower capacitor we recommended changing the dual run capacitor in the condenser. The customer has the option to decline these repairs, but it is our technicians job while performing maintenance to bring these types of concerns to the customer. The unit was manufactured in 2007 and was not installed by our company. The heat strips were the only repair due to a breakdown. The capacitors, like batteries need to be replaced when they start losing their power. There were replaced the customer's request to prevent future breakdowns. We use a flat rate pricing system where the prices are given up front to the customers for approval prior to the repair. Our pricing is both fair and competitive. It appears that the customer is upset with our company because of repairs needed to a unit that was purchased from someone else.