| Address: Gandipet Road, Hyderabad 500075 |
We recently had a geyser technician from Urban Company service our geyser and he changed the heater coil in the geyser as part of the servicing. The product that was serviced was a Racold 25ltr altro 2 geyser. After the technician left, we turned on the geyser and the hot water seemed pretty hot and we didnt think of it much other than maybe the servicing helped, but little did we know of the horrors we were going to face for the next 3 weeks.
The day after the service, there was heavy leakage of water along the outside walls of the home and we thought some waterline broke and we still didnt suspect it was due to the geyser servicing issue. Only after two weeks of observations turning different lines shut and open we were able to narrow down the problem to the hot water line from the geyser that was serviced.
So what had happened was that the urban company technician while servicing had installed the wrong heater coil inside the geyser and this in turn kept the water heating uncontrollably and ended up damaging the thermostat (which would have shut off the heating of the water beyond a certain temperature of water). So as long as the geyser switch was on, the geyser continued heating in this case because the heating coil that was installed ended up damaging the thermostat and hence it was a very unsafe situation which could have possibly led to an explosion of the geyser or the flex hoses that were connecting the geyser to the rest of the waterline inside the home.
It was a miracle that the flexible hot water hose inside the bathroom connecting the geyser to the solid pipeline did not burst while someone was inside the bathroom. We feel extremely lucky that noone was injured because of the negligence shown by the urban company technician. Thankfully we leave the geyser on only for about 30mins when we need and that probably helped save injurious to us.
For getting a service from urban company for Rs650, we have had to spend nearly Rs 35000 to understand the issue and this does not include the tremendous inconvenience during the COVID situation that it has caused us. What we finally had to do to understand the problem was to call the technician from the water geyser manufacturer (Racold) to see if there was a problem and he pointed us to the wrong heater coil installation being the root cause of all these problems. We came to know of this only 4 days back.
I have videos and photos of this entire issue along with receipts and online payments made for the various work that we had to undertake to sort this issue out and have attached only a few with this complaint. When I called into the urban company to report this issue, the person addressing the complaint seemed to casually mention that we didnt call their senior technician and they cant do anything about it, which is fine, if this was not a safety issue.
Urban company has seriously erred in a safety issue here which could ended with injury for people. Thankfully, it was only damage to property and not to people, in this case. I hope whoever is reading this ensures that such things are not tolerated and that urban company is held responsible for such gross negligence before its too late and ends up causing serious damage to individuals.
Thank you
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