Laney's

Tom W.

(This happened last summer) I have a lake home that needed a new well pump. So I made a call to Laney's so they could come out and install it. I had already bought my own but when the guy got there he said that it was too small. He told me he could install it but he would have to run to the hardware store to get the pump but was nice enough to tell me that I could buy it myself for half as much as Laney's charges. Having SOME knowledge of plumbing I decided I would go buy the pump, all the fittings, and do it myself. Because it was all copper before I decided to do copper again. I cut the pipe to proper lengths and put everything together. When I put the copper together I used this solder-less glue I found at the hardware store. After I primed the pump I turned it on and it pushed out the water that was used to prime and then no more water. Which meant it was a problem between the well and the pump. I removed everything that I had installed from the pump to the well. Then I called Laney's thinking they could solder the copper fittings and that would be that. The guy came out and pointed out that an end cap wasn't shut(dumb me) so I told him to fix it up and thought that would be that(maybe an hour of work) As he worked I was painting my cabin. He came to me once telling me he needed to go to the hardware store. I lost all track of time while I was painting and finally he comes back to show me what he's done. Turns out he removed all the copper(even the line to the house which was FINE) and replaced it with poly. When he explained it to me he said he went to poly because it was cheaper. When I received the bill I realized a few things 1. while poly is cheaper than copper it isn't when you've already purchased and cut a ten foot stick you purchased at the hardware store(not to mention the fittings) 2. They were charging more three hours of labor for a job that took me an hour so I wanted an expansion of time since I knew he ran to the hardware store. They told me that they had GPS on their vehicles but it malfunctioned. Now since the plumber had been there before I feel that if they need to run to the hardware store that's on their time not mine. I filed a complaint with Better Business Bureau. Laney's then contacted me to say they would take off two hours of labor and agreed that the plumber should have let me know he was switching to poly. Then the BBB called saying Laney's is denying any wrongdoing, but have agreed to the payment of labor and that Laney's and I have agreed to no longer do business. Won't be calling them again.