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!

On The Road Again

The boys are at it again, with a bunch of special guests.
See ya in Pennsylvania!

Tim

WIN FREE GAS!!

The Contest is simple.
Apply sticker to the back of your vehicle.
Drive around town.
Easy as that.

I have 4 spotters, who live and work around Martin County.
They see a sticker, write down the tag number, and we put it in a box.
On the second Friday and the last Friday of the month I will pull a number and cross reference to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, and BAM we have a winner of a $100.00 gas card.
That easy.

As you can see I have plenty of stickers.

I have 2,000 left and I just ordered another 12,000 more.

Call 283-7222 to request some or send a SASE to:

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4932 SE Pompano Terr. Stuart, Florida 34997.

First drawing on 9/26/2008

Stay cool and put up those stickers.......Tim

Hard Days Of Summer.

You better believe I've been workin all day,
Just step in my shoes and take my pay.

Bees and Fay. Do they mix?

Typical call on a typical day.
Not cooling.
Everything seems normal.
Until I notice a bunch of bees around.
Bees don't typically bother me. Wasps are another story.
I see the neighbor as a few palm trees with blossoms on them and a LOT of bees buzzing around them.
Again, relatively normal.
THEN I SEE IT.

A nest of bees up in the eave, on the roof of the house.

It's hard to see in these pictures, but this nest is big. Real big.

I tell the customer about there situation and the knew all about it, and they had no plans for removal. They even went as far as to tell me they are also in the attic, and they come IN the house sometimes.

I don't know about you but I would have an issue with a nest like this on my house. I also would have a major issue with bees in my home.

Oh well, to each it's own.

Fay, Fay blow away. Come another hurricane day.

3 things that I do not like:

Bee hives the size of a small bed.

Hurricanes in the Caribbean.

And poorly installed air conditioning systems.

Stay cool and have some fun,

Tim

PS I also don't like octopus when diving, they give me the willies.

Jerry Week

8-1-1942 - 8-9-1995
May you rest in peace.

For the people who did not know, Sirius radio has the Grateful Dead channel. 24/7
Needless to say we listen to it all the time.
It was Jerry week and had some real classic interviews and music.
A guy called in for a request and said "You know the song, the one with a long jam in the middle"
I thought that was funny as can be.

Tough week. Hot as can be. Thursday the attic peaked out at 126 degrees. Can't drink enough water. As always job came out great even with the mind melting temps.

Have fun,
Tim

Oh yea, OCC rocks!

That Smell

Can you smell it?

It's in the air.

Sounds of a hit.

Sweat drips from their hair.

Practice all day.

Rest all night.

Bruises are the price you pay.

Block with all your might.

Football my Friends, that's our game.