Vijay Patel came home this spring to find some of his appliances had been fried by an electrical overload — again.
In 2014, Toronto Hydro paid the Scarborough homeowner $3,300 for damage caused by a cable to Patel’s audio equipment.
Nine years later, he says, the same utility service cable overloaded and caused more than $5,000 in damage to appliances like his furnace, water heater, gas stove top igniter and audio equipment. But this time Toronto Hydro denied his claim.
That’s despite the utility admitting the overload came from an “unexpected equipment failure” and repairing the cable the day after it failed.
“It’s not like I have a choice to
