24/10/2023
Yesterday, I went out to a customer in Darch to service her evaporative cooler. We already knew that the pads needed changing which I did as well as cleaning out the unit. When I went to test the unit I realised it wasn’t pumping any or very little water up onto the pads. On further inspection, I realised that the pump that someone had replaced in 2001 in her Coolbreeze evaporative cooler was in fact a second hand pump out of an AOLAN evaporative cooler, which were discontinued certainly here in WA at least two years ago according to my wholesalers.
The pump wasn’t secured properly and still had the Aolan holding brackets on. The customer told me that she was charged a lot of money for this.
It is disgusting that there are so many crooks out there doing dodgy work like this.
Please people, only use reputable companies and if possible check what you are getting. If you know the model you have, you can easily check the parts and even the prices of the parts by a simple Google search or by going onto the GAMATO website.
Rant over-Have a nice day