On May 12, 7:26*pm, N8N wrote:
On May 12, 7:13 pm, N8N wrote:
On May 12, 6:08 pm, Jim Yanik wrote:
NateNagel wrote :
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Secondly, has
anyone had any luck with going through the power company to pay for some
of this damage (the air filter is maybe 6 mos. old) or is homeowner's
insurance the place to start? *If the latter, I might be tempted to pay
out of pocket to avoid a rate increase.
No experience here,but I would contact the power company first.
Yeah, I will do that tomorrow once I have a chance to try all the
major appliances, I still haven't tried the dishwasher, washing
machine, or dryer, although the only failures so far seem to be the
air filter and the one surge strip, which based on the date on the
back was over 10 years old anyway.
OK, well, let me rephrase that. *The only failures are the air filter,
one surge strip, and the dishwasher, which was installed literally the
week before we bought the house. *Grr. *So there will be no cleaning
of the furnace filters today.
I haven't tried the A/C yet either, which is also new.
The washer (ancient) and dryer (new) seem to be OK.
This could be an expensive experience.
nate
Follow up: finally got a response from the power company. To
paraphrase: urinate on some woven hemp in a direction opposite that of
gravity. Basically they said that their "investigation" determined
that a live tree had fallen on some power lines shorting a high
voltage line to a lower voltage line and that the tree was outside
their right of way so not their problem blah blah blah.
I guess I'm eating this one because my costs are of the same order of
magnitude as my homeowner's insurance deductible, and we already made
a claim for a water heater that done blowed up last year, so a)
there's not much point in it and b) I don't want to end up on anyone's
"high risk" list.
I am glad however that I was able to troubleshoot the issues myself
and at least narrow it down to board level repairs although I decided
not to try to take it down to component level because I did really
expect that this was going to get paid for.
I feel bad for my neighbor/coworker now, he said he lost a couple big
screens
nate