Morticia
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Satellite TV guy arrives. This after calling to verify install and me asking what he's going to need to do. He gives me a short description that involves all interior work. I explain there is some exterior work as well. He's pretty sure he knows what he has to do.
Arrives and the first thing he tells us is that his ladder is too short. No, he is not able to walk across the roof (like the first installers did). He has to stay on the ladder. He's never going to be able to do the work if he can't get off the ladder as he has to run the cable from the dish to where it enters the house. Oh, and the roof is wet. He can't work today on a wet roof. It rained all day yesterday, it was foggy all morning. OF COURSE the roof is wet.
Then he tells us the new install won't work if we have horsehair plaster. This building is 125 years old. Sheetrock hadn't been invented.
I asked him questions on the phone. He never mentioned replacing the dish, needing a tall ladder, not being able to climb on the roof, horsehair plaster. NO ONE mentioned any of this.
So, here I am with 4 new TV's and no way to install them.
The bill for this job is over $800. You'd think they'd have a ladder or would verify the building before coming out.
Arrives and the first thing he tells us is that his ladder is too short. No, he is not able to walk across the roof (like the first installers did). He has to stay on the ladder. He's never going to be able to do the work if he can't get off the ladder as he has to run the cable from the dish to where it enters the house. Oh, and the roof is wet. He can't work today on a wet roof. It rained all day yesterday, it was foggy all morning. OF COURSE the roof is wet.
Then he tells us the new install won't work if we have horsehair plaster. This building is 125 years old. Sheetrock hadn't been invented.
I asked him questions on the phone. He never mentioned replacing the dish, needing a tall ladder, not being able to climb on the roof, horsehair plaster. NO ONE mentioned any of this.
So, here I am with 4 new TV's and no way to install them.
The bill for this job is over $800. You'd think they'd have a ladder or would verify the building before coming out.