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| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
WHY MUST I SUCK AT LIFE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!:whip::mad:
So my water heater is out. i had a plumber come this morning...he looks at it, says, "oh , whirlpool" and calls his boss...."hey, we don't carry those whirlpool thermocouplers do we?"
"no...get 'em from lowes"
"hey man, go to lowes , get the 'left-sided' thermocouplers, bring your serial # and all that stuff, it should be free of charge....call me back if you want me to install it for you today, its overtime $135/hr,,,or call back on monday and its $90/hr."
"i'll go get one and call you right back." i replied.
i drive to Lowes.
"i need a thermocoupler for a whirlpool water heater"
"we don't sell those anymore."
"i'm sorry, what?":mad:
"the left-sided ones? yeah we don't sell those anymore".
"!" i shouted in the store so i drive 30 mins north to the other Lowes. same thing. :mad:
drive home
call up whirlpool's customer service number.
"our hours are only 8am to 8pm monday thru friday....please call back later"
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
googled around for this thing....turns out, there's a ing class-action lawsuit against whirlpool for the SAME WATER HEATER I HAVE :wtf: because the piece of apparently dies all the time....turns out my water heater is only 6 years old (2002), but the energystar thing on is from 1994 ( :wtf: ) .
so i found another 1800 number and another website:
www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com <---apparently their sucks so bad its needs its own website.
called up the number, and ordered the piece. because i'm more than the 2nd owner of this place since 2002 (i'm the 4th, i think), the warranty is null-in-void.
:whip::mad::whip::mad:
but, because the piece is no longer sold in stores (because of the lawsuit), they're going to ship it to me anyway (full package thing, not just one wire, but the full gas/hookup unit).
however, their shipping store is not open today. its not open on any weekend.
so my $18 overnight charge i had to pay for means that it'll get here on tuesday.
ING TUESDAY:whip::mad::whip:
I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL ING TUESDAY TO GET ING HOT WATER :mad::mad::mad:
I FEEEEEEL LIKE AAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS because of this ty mono on top of it.
you try saying "whirlpool" when half your throat is closed up - you can't ing say it. so i'm on the phone with all these different people all around town trying to find this whirlpool piece of , and they're like, "what kinda pool?":wtf:
"WHIRL POOL YOU ING ASS HOLES!" :mad::whip::mad:and screaming only makes my throat hurt even more.
i'm going back to the doctor on monday....my boss called me today and wants me to stay away from work for like a week. and said its easier to get people to replace me when he knows i'm going to be gone for a week, and not just one day here, or one day there.
i have to ing boil water, plug up my sink, and dump it in there so i can shave or wash myself.
oh, here's the website that has been around apparently since 2003 with complaints about whirlpool water heaters:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/home...er_heaters.html
FAO Boomar: hope you didn't buy one.
in hindsite, i've lived in my house for 1 year and 4 months, and this is the first time this has ever happened to me. i guess it could be happening more often. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
Ygrene has some essplainin to do :mad: |
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