Checking Into High Humidity Complaint While There For Maintenance 

Nah just a tech who does the best I can.

Jeff same way on land. They just want to limit foot traffic to certain areas. For maintenance.

Yes and that was the issue with the drain I redid. The top of the trap we put cleanout t. That has to be closed or the air gets sucked in the opening and holds the water back in pan causing it to overflow and leak inside. Once I opened the filter door this unit started draining

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Cleaning drains is apart of every ac maintenance here. At least everywhere I ever worked. Yet not going to say anyone cleaned them the year earlier.

Mostly just drain clean out in this vid, with some testing. Hope everything is good with you

4 times a year at most facilities

Thanks just taking everyone along while running through some maintenance work. This is what I’m doing 80% of the time.

@@thehvachacker its interesting to see how different machines are set up and function

The trap is a vapor barrier. HVAC Why AC Sytems Have Condensate Traps ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6P-0Ix-bmdU.html. Check out the video it shows how the unit works with and without a trap, yet the evaporator and coil are on the negative side of the fan so water is held in by the fan without. Plugged filters won’t stop draining if a trap is in place. Yet will reke havoc to the system

@@thehvachacker oh ok, i wondered about that. On trucks the drain is just a hose hanging down, no trap, atleast not on peterbilt, international, or kenworth. When the filters on them plug it just reduces air flow, sometimes causes to freeze up if it is a dual system, but the restriction on the intake vent will cause not to drain, driver will say it works good for a few hours then quits. Turning off the fan causes a couple quarts to drain very fast.

When these filters get restricted the evals do freeze up from not enough air flow. The plugged intake on the trucks causes the fan to suck air in though the drain.

@@thehvachacker yeah. The trucks usually have a cycling compressor so freeze up would not be an issue if it was just a single unit, or if the bunk unit was off. But when the rear evaporator is getting enough air it can keep the low side pressure up just enough that the compressor will not cycle so the front with restriction will freeze up. Does not happen often but i have seen it a few times. Typical cycling compressor system would normally never do this, but on a dual evaporator truck , and i suppose a suburban or other suv with a rear evaporator could also.

They can freeze over the winter why the clear ezze traps are no good they always seem to crack and split. These schedule 40 pvc traps cause not too deep the water also can evaporate or if it freezes expand inside the pipe

The knipex cobras have an amazing grip and won’t slip

Hydrashok357 no comment yet I understand

I turned all the units on. This is an 8 hour AC maintenance so everything gets tested

Where do you live? If you did the old timer rule of thumb alone every 500 sq feet would equal a ton of cooling. I’m guessing your house cools quickly yet humidity is an issue. Along with the noise

@@thehvachacker I live in southwest Idaho. I only use the furnace in the winter. I have never used the AC because even though it can get up to 107 F outside at times it cools down to 60 to 65 at night with 20- 25% humidity at the most. I get by using a small swamp cooler between 9 PM and 8 AM to cool the place down to 60 and it warms up to about 75 by 7 PM My Lennox unit is not very efficient with the way they have it set up and I just cannot justify using the kind of power it draws. Besides, my house being 95 years old it has absolutely no insulation inside the walls except for the 1 inch of styrofoam in the back of the siding I just had installed 4 months ago. The moron who renovated this house was a flipper. I was thinking about putting a 9 kW solar panel system on my roof and inspected the electrical sub panel and wiring. Found no less than 30 code violations and outright illegal as hell wiring. And the plumbing is no better. I relied on a professional home inspector's report before I bought this place. Never looked it over myself. Huge mistake. I'm saving up for some very major renovations and a new 2 ton gas split package is on my list. I got an estimate from a local HVAC guy for $7200. On the invoice he listed another package unit for $5600 but after some research I found out I can get the same unit for $2700. But can get a nice seer 14 gas split unit for less than $2000

Never trust a home inspector. Some are good others just failed at a trade so they took that on. Just gave one 500 on friday and he didn't even go into the lower attic where I found water staining on the wood and looked still damp under the roof. Wouldn't go into crawl space yet was suppose to test for termites and capenter ants. only caught the obvious. I did a home inspection myself before he got there. I just am not allowed to write up a report. what a waste of 500

@@thehvachacker That's just disgusting. I've been in this house for almost 8 years now. The inspector did list things the loan guarantee agency ( Federal Rural Development Agency) which mandated the seller fix before they would approve the loan. Double taps in the sub panel and what not. The realtor must have hired an unlicensed handyman to do the work because what he did was illegal ( moving the double tap to a splice inside the sub panel, using green wires and black wires for the neutral lines, miss matched breakers for the subpanel, plus about 20 other things Just for shits and giggles I went to the county building and zoning to get a record of all the permits issued to this place. 2 - Mine for the fencing I built. I called the state for any electrical, plumbing, and HVAC. One for the HVAC but this thing was obviously not inspected when completed. All the plumbing, extra electrical outlets were done illegally. This was never brought up at closing and I trusted the real estate agents, title company, inspectors, etc and just lived here for 8 years. I went under my house for the 1st time 2 days ago and that's when I discovered with an absolute horrid tangled mess of wiring, plumbing, and HVAC ductwork this place has. Also found out that the ledger boards and floor joist in a corner of my house is gone - rotted away. Most of the original floor joists are destroyed by insects and someone installed new joists next to them but they are barely in place. There is a concrete foundation which runs down the center of my house and one end of it just crumbled away. a 2 x 8 support is rotted away and someone stuffed bits and pieces of a 2 x 4 in there to hold up the wall above it. much of the subfloor is rotted out I need to completely remove and replace all the floor and subfloor and every floor joist in my house and use a concrete saw to cut out that bad section of the inner foundation and rebuild it. It will be a few years before I can save up and do this. But yeah, it is really going to be tough to trust professionals I hire now. I've never posted any videos but I should make some showing what a freaking mess this place is and the work of these so called professionals. LOL! I have a 12 inch flex duct going into a 8 x 10 room and very little air can return from that room with the door closed. The return for my unit is 18 inches.

These are tridem 3 ply filters

Those are trident 3 ply merv 8 filters

I got them out. I try to leave non behind at the end. I like these 8 hour maintenances

Those filters don’t come from a roll. A zip tie is the perfect drain cleaning tool. And a plugged drain leaks water inside. Which leads to humidity issues.

All the drains are set up on roofs for water run off. And the roof is pitched to all the roof drains. My new drain at least doesn't have the water going right against the curb

Im in bakersfield ca AND THE INSPECTOR WOULD NEVER PASS IT THAT WAY WE NEED COPPER PIPE IF MORE THAN 4 ft N INTO THE BUILDING DRAIN OR THE SIDES OF ROOF WHERE WATER GOES

@@josepulido7424 That code doesn't make a lot of sense to me - unless they are somehow able to make rainfall land on just the gutters or scuppers, water is falling on the roof surfaces around those machines. But, the AHJ gets that final word.

jose pulido in Jersey there is no code for roof drains, this is all that gets done usually. The roof is waterproof. I just don't like the water pooling against the curb. After enough time water will work its way in. Just remember as your watching vids online code is different everywhere. You don't want much piping on the drains in jersey cause most mid December to march we can be low teens 10-25 degrees. I think needing to pipe the condensation off the roof is ridiculous to be mandatory yet local codes is what we all have to abide by. Or fail inspection. Many comment how some stuff is not to code in my vids yet I do everything to my local municipal codes. They will change from one town to another.

Dwight Rahl we can't fight the municipal codes just do everything to code, yet in some towns condensation isn't allowed to be drained into a slop sink.

That’s a very prejudice statement. You sir are racist!