Fresh Tour Shirts Are Comming.

Here is a sneak peak of the Thunder and Lightning tour shirts.
I will have them by Halloween.
Tell me what you think.
If you want one....E-mail me and reserve one.
Thanks
Tim

PS. Tomorrow is Ana and My anniversary! 17 years and still counting.

Part 2 of a mess.

I have shown this before. Ducts laying on insulation WILL create water. It is like putting 2 coolers on top of each other, water will create quickly. As you can see with these pictures the ducts are touching everything, and with the high humidity this year my customer has water stains EVERYWHERE in her home.

Also because the unit had a "butt plate" return plenum on it, the air handler sweats too. The installing company thought taking insulation from the ceiling and shoving it in the emergency drain pan and under the air handler unit will help. Again insulation on insulation makes more moisture. The bottom of the air handler is rusted out and the emergency pan its on its way, not to mention the mold growing and a few rodents starting homes and family's in there.

This is were the water is after I moved the duct over a few feet.

Trash....Trash.....Trash.... I don't need to remove any stinkin trash. On top off all this they left all the trash in the attic. A good van or two worth of trash.

The worst part of this whole situation is...........................THIS SYSTEM IS ONLY 3 1/2 YEARS OLD!

Not a very long time for a $8,000. investment.

We need inspections/permits for HVAC change outs in Martin County!!!!!!

Stay cool and have fun

Tim

PS

Less than a month away for the 4 Ratdog shows in Florida!

Water stains Part 1

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!