Alot of pictures this week!!I'm going to have to make a part II entry today to get all the pictures I want.
This is our journey:
Complaint: Water stains showing up on the ceiling inside.
This first pic is were you climb up into the attic. 33 inch high at the peak.
There is some wood along the way. It is 1/2 inch plywood across 2 feet trusses, not nailed, not a good strong situation for a person to climb on.
Belly crawl through maze here.
This is our 2nd part of our crawl. Keep in mind outside 84 beautiful degrees. Inside attic 95 to 100 degrees. 12 foot crawl here to get to the pull chain light. Note: don't pull the wrong chain, the Tv and wireless computer stuff is plugged into the light too. Last time I was here and made this mistake, the TV shut off and the on line stuff crashed. Customer was stoked on this.
Notice the old abandoned air handler to the left, and all the duct laying on the insulation.
Now part 3 of this nice crawl across the ceiling.
Wrestle 10 feet over and under trusses to this delightful 4 year old air handler. The install of this job is horrendous. The ducts are strapped with old telephone wire. The unit is supported with used old cracking wood. Water dripping off of everything.
Please don't let me step through the ceiling. Plywood ran out a while back.
Well here I am, 4 feet away, Hey what is this? Oh it's just a truss cut out and wedged into an old used duct plenum to keep it from falling off the air handler. Supply duct only 18 inches long, should a minimum of 3 feet, and new.
Note: A TRUSS SHOULD NEVER BE CUT AND REMOVED!!
I counted 3 cut in this house.
This is a picture of the back side of the air handler. This is called the return air side of the unit. This is were clean, non restricted air goes into the machine. It should be in a nice 3 to 4 foot plenum. This one is a piece of flex duct shoved into the back. we call this a butt plate. Hey someone left their gloves with a bucket of trash.
What does this all add up to?
A big mess!
1 comment:
Nice working environment. I though basements and crawl spaces were bad. That attic makes me sweat just looking at the photos. Who's the contortionist that put that stuff in. Well he should probably stick to amusements. I am sure the structural engineer would approve of a little truss modification to assist the install of a quality A/C system design such as the one you have shown. If we could not laugh we would have to cry cause someone likely paid way to much for a $#!+ job. Thanks for the laughs.
Tom
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