Richard's Heating & Cooling
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Contractors in Lindenhurst, NY
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Contractors in Lindenhurst, NY
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631-884-8384
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631-884-8384
I had an emergency - the copper tubing from my oil filter to my oil burner sprung a leak. Not only that, but the shut off valve from the oil tank went bad. On top of all of that, the oil burner had been shutting off after about 1/2 hour - 45 minutes, which is what started this mess. HOW IT HAPPENED: I had tried to clean the oil filter, thinking it might be the cause of the shutoff problem. I didn't have a new one, so I took the old one apart and cleaned it all off. I put it back together, but it leaked a bit. While doing so, I turned the oil tank shut off valve too far, breaking the valve stem. Not knowing that, I turned the valve to "off" and loosened the filter - WHAM! Oil everywhere! I lifted the filter to try and get a good angle, managed to get it on correctly, and thought "that's done!" That's when I saw the pinhole leak in the copper tubing. Whoever put the system together had bent the tubing up at a right angle to the boiler, causing a crimp. You can't really crimp copper. Lifting the filter had caused that crimp to spring a pinhole leak, which was now spurting oil over the floor. Panicking, I had my friend put his finger over it while I ran to Home Depot, where I was basically told I was screwed. I called Richards. Richard advised me to crimp the tubing to slow the leak, which eventually I managed to do. The next morning, Ryan came by and replaced the tubing, put in a new filter and points, and tried to put in a new shut off valve. Unfortunately, the guy who originally put it together cross-threaded the connection, so he had to put the new valve just before the filter (he couldn't just replace the old valve, as I had over 100 gallons in the tank.) Ryan warned me that the reset module (Honeywell Protecto Relay) seemed to be cutting out. He was right. This morning, the burner wouldn't start at all. I called Richard, and knowing my financial situation and the fact that I'm pretty handy, he said I could get a new one at Home Depot and replace it myself. I did, but the one I got turned out to be defective (Note: NEVER get anything from Home Depot if the tape is broken!) Got another one, burner started right up. But: The female part of the compression valve by the broken shut off valve was leaking, very slowly. It was cross threaded, remember? So just replacing the female connection wasn't an option. Back comes Ryan, and things are looking dim. From the depths of his tool box, he pulls out an old, much used valve. Since it was a bit worn, the threads were able to "jump over" the cross threaded male part of the defective shut off valve, and from there he got a nice tight fitting. All done, no leaks, the system works perfectly. Could a national chain have done this? Could a company that didn't care about its customers? Nope. They would have said "we'll have to do xxx, plus yyy, $1000 please." Richards was not only fair in price, but they were caring and worked hard to solve a problem that was not of their making. Do I recommend them? If you need help from people who know what they're doing, the only answer can be a very loud "YES"!
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