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Been watching you for a few years, I retired 6 years ago, dont miss it...I loved the one where you were in the attic, checking voltages, homeowner removed face to t-stat without you asking...jacked you around, you went off...Public is a trip. Hitting subscribe button, thumbs up...I like the way you diagnose.
My wife heard you say shit show. She goes, that's what you say. I said I learned it from him. She told me I need classier friends, lol. It is a shit show! Thanks Steven!
When I lived in Taunton I had one just like those. It kept leaking. Finally we found that the schrader valve had failed but when a gauge was on it it wouldn't leak. Took some time to find the leak.
I love this one! It's like a detective story. I hope these homeowners appreciate that instead of a new unit, all they needed was a couple of pounds of Freon and a $25 hard-start kit. You saved them a fortune, Steve. And I hope the homeowner's Dad especially appreciates how your expertise and willingness to do your best on every job is unusual these days in the business.
Steve just saved that family lots on utility bill. Huge saving. That musta have been a really big old house to have so many units. I can't imagine how many tons total! Maybe 21 tons?
Sounds just like a job I did on the heating side it ended up being a bad zone valve keeping the heat running, stuck wide open on the end switch. Keep up the good work Steve 💪.
I am just a ham and egger but a renter was complaining about the AC not cooling. The AC compressor was running, the AC was blowing, so, I didn't know what was going on. The AC guy, who may have had a drug problem, said it was fine. The property manager wanted to buy some sort of portable AC unit. I told him he was crazy because he had an operational system and told him to have someone who knows what he is doing look at it. Sure enough, the guy said the heat and AC were running at the same time but I don't know how he fixed it. It was a hot air system, I don't know. The AC and gas were all firing at the same time. It did have one of those fancy wifi thermostats
You’re absolutely correct. Specially with 20-year-old units. You have to check that evaporator coil. I believe Steve is a much better plumber than he has AC technician but I understand in his part of the world they only use air conditioning a couple months out of the year so a big part of his business is just gas and go and will deal with it next year is the customers attitude
Well done Steve you did the job, 👍😀 and it will be very interesting to see the follow up on the multiple thermostat loops - if you ever get the call back. That homeowner has got significant investment to make pretty soon when those condenser units finally turn their toes up.😳
Just me, but i would have pulled all the thermostats off the wall and then checked the heat zone pumps. If it turned off, reconnect each one until i found the bad one. 😊
Friendly FYI …. If condenser is dirty with high sub cooling it will cause it superheat to also run high. Those turds need to be carted off to the dumpster ASAP!!
Heat & cold at the same time, I've traced it to a 'bad' thermostat in the past. Pull the thermostat off problem not there, checked wires ok, thermostat in oil mode connects cool & heat together!!! Switch it to electric -- A ok. I've seen it more than once!
I usually offer to fix it as well as a estimate of replacing. It’s the customer’s decision. I will not dumb refrigerant into a empty unit though. That’s a waste of gas and harmful.
Our hvac on air side died a few weeks ago guy said we need a new unit, the board is bad and he cant get one they dont make them any more. This was a 20 min. visit(just trying to figure out how he could have tried to find one that fast) I found new board 30 mins later. And it didnt cost me $7000 for a new unit.
I wonder if you pulled all of the thermostats off than try to connect that red wire again and see if Zone 2 turns back on, if it doesn't then start putting the thermostats back one at a time until zone 2 turns back on?
Spending the price of a new unit on repairing a 20 year old unit isn’t worth it. Anything can be fixed, sometimes it just makes no sense. Put that money into new equipment. Usually I’d get it by until it needs major leak repairs, coils or a compressor. Hard start kits aren’t expensive
wow if you can afford 7 air conditioners you could afford a yard cleanup person to get rid of the leaves LOL I feel good about how clean mine is after seeing these I wash coil couple times every year and clean up all the leaves in and around unit
Image if that guy who comes out and starts cutting and disables units, saying they all need to be replaced came out to that place... Good job, hope they call you back to trouble shoot thermostat wiring, would like to see the issue
had the same problem with a oil fired boiler the summer time circulaters start running rad. are banging called oil co. THEMOSTATT had some solder connections that should not have changed the therm all was fine.
Most of the units here look to be 10 seer units. The standard “modern” ac is usually 14 seer but, you can get units where the seer rating is in the 20s. 10 seer units cost just under a dollar per hour while the 14 seer units cost about 0.65 $ to run a hour
My AC and furnace was replaced in 2019 after 31 years. Those looked like shit, mine still looked good. Glad I went HE as my bills are half what they were.
MASS SAVE again? They will come in and get you heat in the summer and cooling in the winter. Next, we will be adding HVAC and air conditioning the Arctic Circle with wind turbines!
I'm sincerely hoping that those systems aren't all on the same electric bill. If they are, I think I'd have to take out a 2nd job, just to run them. Then there's the oil bill, for the boiler that could have been running for months...
before & after work i watch your vids, invaluable learning tool...that working mans turkey vid was awesome!! One of the greatest assets to the trades in the US!!
Is that house not insulated at all?? If each unit is 3 tons or 36,000 btu times 7 , that is 21 tons of ac in that house OMG. They got to be going broke just paying the electric bill !!! There has to be a much more efficient way to do it than this.
I wonder if they have their own transformer. I could see where a 2 phase might be a little more efficient delivery instead of placing all those amps on a single phase leg. I'd sure hate to swap energy bills with those people !
Good question...My guess is that they are so acclimated to cold winters that when a heat wave hits (anything above 80 degrees) it must feel like Death Valley to them.
