u/TodayIWasBad

So, let’s say I install a minisplit, and I’m an electrician,

I buy parts in bulk for electrical so my inventory is important, and I install the parts and send the customer a bill for labor and materials, no break down. Just match the signed bid amount.

Once the job is paid I will just delete the labor and materials lines and add the actual labor costs and actual materials used and then a line that shows my profit, but the customer can see the invoice once I edit it? So I usually just end up making a new one

Anyways, this is annoying because so many of my customers and filing rebates for these mini splits and they want a copy of the invoice, but I have already voided the thing and replaced it with one that tracks my inventory and breaks down the actual costs.

How do I do this better?

Just throwing a question out there,

Recently got called to a customers house for a nuisance arc fault tripping on a kitchen circuit.

I used to just replace the arc fault circuit breaker and cross my fingers, but these days I’ve started measuring for ground faults on the hot and neutral wires, and if I don’t find a ground fault with a dmm I’ll just replace the breaker.

In this case, I identified a very small ground fault ~10megaohms on both the hot and neutral wire. So I started opening the circuit at the devices to narrow down where to look. I do this by identifying the devices and boxes involved in the circuit and disconnecting line/load wires.

I identified that it was actually the home run wire that seems to be the source of the fault. I have previously replaced wires through attics and crawl spaces, but in his case this house is slab on grade with no attic in the kitchen area, I identified with my toner that the home run runs across the kitchen at nearly countertop height, - suggesting the possibility that it could be hit by a cabinet screw. But for all practicality the wire is almost unreplaceable without ripping the kitchen out.

So, it being the end of the day I gave my bad news to the homeowner, and suggested that we could track the wire down in the attic and cut it and see if there’s a possibility that the fault exists on the portion of the wire that is accessible, but have yet to hear back.

Anyways, do yall have any non destructive ideas for how to locate where in the wall the wire is damaged, so I could possibly cut a hole and repair it?

So Quickbooks online payroll is forcing everyone to pay taxes automatically. So my accountant was setting it all up. At some point my FEIN got entered incorrectly, just off by a digit. Quickbooks support says it’s unfixable. The page where you change it says

“you can’t change the EIN because you’ve enrolled in EFTPS and E-File. If you’ve received a new EIN number contact us for help updating the EIN in your Quickbooks Workforce account”

Anyways, the fix that I was offered was to basically stop using this instance of quickbooks and start a new one, they’d refund my subscriptions for this month and I could get new ones. But backups and restore to start with all my customers and inventory is not possible because I don’t have Quickbooks advanced. And there’s no way to unenroll in EFTpS and E-File because it’s required now.

This is the worst customer service.

Update. I received an email that the fed id didn’t match my business name, and then I was able to change it after that. It’s wild that they suggested starting over when it totally fixed itself.