Hit 500 fridge compressor swaps this week

I was going through my service records the other night and counted up all the compressor replacements I've done since I started on my own 4 years ago. Came out to exactly 500 this week with a Whirlpool job I did over on Elm Street. Never really thought about the number before but it hit me that's a lot of hours kneeling on concrete and fighting with recovery machines. Anyone else ever tally up how many of a specific repair they've done?

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the_lisa23d ago

Started noticing the same thing with how many times I see the same mistakes in peoples yards. Like that tells you more about how stuffs built now than any warranty sheet could.

troy_adams23d ago

Just check what gauge wire they're using on the fixtures and what kind of soil prep they did before planting. That's where 90% of the problems start. You'll see 18-gauge landscape wire on a system that needs 12-gauge if they skimped, and then the plants fail because nobody loosened the dirt first. I always tell people to look at the drip line too. If water pools instead of soaks in after 5 minutes, that's a failure right there. Saves you a ton of headaches later.