HVAC, Hayters, and Hate in General

We arrived at the church Friday night to find that the furnace installers from Hayters drilled the hole for the propane gas line in the wrong spot, not near the lovely ditch the Paul Davis crew dug for us. The propane line now runs right by the only outdoor electrical outlet on that side of the church AND the lightening rod base. So the electrician had to shut off the electrical outlet. And I have to dig another now-fifteen-foot trench by hand. We had put the trench where the propane company had told us to, Hayters was aware of it, and if they for some reason couldn't use it, they should have called us, not just drilled the hole willy-nilly somewhere else. 

On top of that, they unhooked the handy-dandy thermostat downstairs in our living area and installed the new one with humidistat upstairs in the sanctuary---the room we had told them we are not going to heat except for occasional functions. The way they have it now, we'll have to heat the whole building all the time to keep our pipes in the one downstairs room from freezing. Or we have to turn off the expensive furnace all together and heat the one downstairs room with an electric heater. Sigh. And to do this astounding thing, they ran a bright red electrical wire across the kitchen and living room ceilings, taped to the duct, like a big bloody gash against the white ceiling. As my husband put it, let's go to their house and tape a red wire across their living room and see what their wife has to say about it. 

And to top it all off, the $3000 dehumidifier unit ran all night and did not touch the humidity level at all. No water at all came out of the tube. So it's not functioning. I plugged in the $200 portable dehumidifer from Home Depot and it dropped the humidity from 69 to 52 within the hour. 

We are going to have them come back out and re-do the whole thing. Has to be done before the propane tank can be delivered. It delays everything for a couple of weeks. At least we haven't paid them yet! I am starting to rename their company "Hate'ems" in my head...