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Donald Doyle
Aug 12, 2025
The following is a letter I sent to Mr. Frye who apparently does not have an e-mail address (unbelievably), so I forwarded it to one of his employees:
I regret I am disappointed in how the job that was done, handled, the communication and no real attempt to rectify the situation.
I know I have said some of this already, but I am going to say it again:
1. I asked a friend of mine for a referral. He said he had been using Frye Electric, but lately has become disappointed and has moved on. My mother suggested Frye Electric and even though I heard what my friend said, I decided to give your company a call. There are always at least two sides to a story, so I took a chance.
2. I asked Greg multiple times about any mess. I trusted what Greg was telling me therefore I did not read the contract in full. I suppose that is what I get for trusting the representative of your company of 50 years (which you mentioned several times). Not only did I have a bill from Frye Electric, I now have an unexpected non-budgeted bill to fix what was done.
3. Your crew treated the job as if it was a new build, not an occupied residence
4. The crew could have made an extra effort to dress wires instead of leaving some out. See the attached photo.
5. I invited your crew to borrow my tools if needed. I expect them to put them back where they got them and not just leave them lying around. Once again, I trusted representatives of your company.
6. We had to wait days, literally days for the job to be completed because apparently another job was more important than getting this one done. Not because of anything other than the crew did not have everything they needed to get it done.
7. As a low-voltage cabling person, I find it amazing your crew could not take a little time to put the circuit breakers in a logical/sensible order. That is like if I were to run cable and number ports 1, 13, 28, 3, 16, 2. No way I would ever get away with that. Recently, I did a job at Avis Rental Car and an electrician was there. I asked him about this and he told me there is no way he would be able to just put circuit breakers in a random order.
8. I truly think you came over here really to get payment and not really try to smooth things over. Giving me your phone number, a business card, pen and lights did not smooth anything over. You never really apologized.
Because of this experience, I went with another company to get our generator installed.