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Checking for carbon monoxide is the first thing you should of done. I wouldn’t be wasting your time on maintenance. Especially on a 20+year unit. Condemn it and move onto the next one.
Great job! Once I found out it was an old furnace with a pilot light, I would have stopped there, disabled the furnace, and just made sure the ac was working. Reason being, had it not been for the cracked flue pipe with the leak, the customer would have continued using it until it messed up again. In addition, those old furnaces are just a waste of time to clean and fix! At any rate, that was a thorough job. Post the installation if you can. Thx
Prefab C-boxes from the supply houses transition better than a collar to a box like you did. That being said, great job but tapered is better. I also like to duct mastic everything instead of silicone. Just put your metal together and paint away. Different strokes for different folks. No criticism here, just trying to help.
so no combustion analysis or visual heat exchanger inspection, to determine if the heat exchanger has a failure? so you found 5 feet of old flue pipe that needed to be changed and your hoping to get a change out. stop posting this type of video unless your trying to find your self in court. yes the furnace is old, yes single wall flue pipe leaks when it is new. those PPM well check OSHA standard. you found no CO in the air flow in the office area. word of advice from a very long time licensed pro take your red sticker and stick it in your brown hole hack. you would be fired for ethics reasons at my shop.
Nice job dude. Only so much you can do with it. It’s not your fault she has to pay twice. She has learned a Valuable lesson and you gained a customer for life.
ANY carbon monoxide reading above 0ppm and we are assuming liability. A leak is a leak in the eyes of the law, period! There is office space directly below this furnace, and the flue piping is rotted out. Company policy is to shut it down until the furnace is safe for operation. Also, its not an auto garage. It is the office space, and storage buidling for a moving company.
First thing.. grate job.! You will get more business wen people know what kind of work you do. And how you do what's right for your customers.. trust me on that ..
I curious if when they were installing it they could have just moved the whole unit out a few inches & redid the gas line and the vent pipe instead of smashing the duct up. Or used a multi takeoff on the return plenum and use two smaller pieces of flex to make up the right size for the return air?
I own an HVAC company and I would have her take the company at fault to small claims court. That install is an abomination and I would have them reimburse her for your time and repairing the system to working or to manufacturer specification.
Furnace is old so definitely needs to be replaced. But what’s the reason your going to be replacing it ? Is it because you found 15 PPM CO2 on the flu pipe ? As far as I know on a flue pipe you always find less than 100 PPM and it’s normal, even tho the limit is 400 PPM..
100-400ppm is definitely not normal in a conditioned space for an induced draft furnace. Are you referring to inside the flue during a combustion analysis?
@@MaxHVACR unfortunatly, this is the nature of our field. jobs are under-bid to get the work and as a result, we have what you just showed. That attic is a disaster for running a functional return and you really nailed it though. material costs have doubeled in the last few years and customers are not willing to pay. Double-edged sword.
Thanks for the kind words, and you really hit the nail on the head. It's a rough state at the moment, and I don't see any relief with the recession starting to rear its ugly head.
I see this all the time. The company I work for bids on a change out, we get underbid by 1 to 2 thousand. Which is a good chunk of change. But then we usually get called out a few months later because it is not working. Why dont you call the installer back? It is under labor warranty. "I cant get them to answer my call." Well, thats why it was cheaper. The work was cheaper.
Doesn't look bad but I hate when people don't put filter back grills in so now the whole duct line gets dirty I guess you do it this way so you can go back in a few years and charge them again to clean the return instead of spending a few more dollars and putting in a filter back grill in that would prevent having to clean the return in a later date
She already had a 5 inch filter box installed at the furnace. The job was to be done as budget friendly as possible due to circumstances I.E flex duct.
Props for doing the right thing. You're absolutely right, honesty is the best policy and best business practice, always. Curious about that voltage reading on the new thermocouple. 242 VDC? I'm thinking it's probably 24.2 mV DC (millivolts).
We are going to replace the entire furnace along with the rotted venting due to the liability concerns. The furnace should never emit carbon monoxide into a conditioned space. Thanks for watching!
You should come in the house with your CO detector on. If its running or soon as you restore heat it will be detected. Check HE before you waste your time..
