The sad aspect that niche industry is the HVAC Inspectors, for Real Estate, & insurance claims are often times, very crooked, and dishonest. Or, most often, they want to install a new system for their bottom line, / company's profit margin. I got ripped off badly by a dishonest insurance claim inspector shoddily replacing my condenser.
From the home buyer perspective, getting a pre purchase hvac inspection is extremely important. We recently bought a house and the seller let us hire a company to check the unit out. I’m glad we did, it was a newer Trane heat pump but was in horrible shape and looked like a DIY hack job. We would have had to replace it anyway but at least we didn’t get blindsided later on.
Great Video !!! These real estate inspections are low value activity that doesn’t pay much and you may get stuck with emailing several people and in the drama after buyers remorse. I haven’t had any worth my time
You'll rarely win a job from a real estate agent or inspection. Charge upfront like a repair or don't bother with it. It's all con artistry anyway with realtors.
Likely the buyers just want to confirm something that might have been on a home inspection report they recently got. Lots of times the home inspection report will have items of concern or make comentary about items that the buyer might "seek out a professional tradesman" on the matter. Could be that inspection made note of the condenser fins or the fan blade with the stick inside of it so they decided to address the subject further in depth. In most transactions to sell, if things work normally, regardless of age or condition, thats about how they get sold and bought unless the buyer and seller agree to "discount" the sales price now that they are aware of something they were not when they reached an accepted sales price. Even though home inspections are very limited for the money spent on them, they are a good tool to use for a witness and something isn't as it appears which allows the buyer to continue to negotiate with the seller if its that important to the buyer.
house was not sold, so it is not your property, - you cannot mess with it. plus you never know what kind of HVAC guy will come. Is he experience or not? Nobody checked his license or anything. Even if he has license, - again ... all is about trust.
I knew you were going to say it; Comfortaker lmao I am curious about the liability if you put a stamp of approval on a system, and then it fails when the new owners arrive. Maybe you could comment on that subject. 😎
I do a lot of sale of home hvac inspections. Usually when the inspector finds something potentially concerning or maybe out of his scope. I usually write it up like "unit is heating/cooling at this time". I'll always note the age of the units as well and give a opinion on the overall condition. Ultimately it's a mechanical device and can fail at anytime, especially if an older unit. This is why, like Ted, i don't dig in to far on sale inpections, cause then you might get the accusations. "It worked fine till you touched it" type stuff.
That's all I do on the realtor inspections as well. Do a visual, get a temp split, tell them to clean/change the filters. Other than that, see you later!!
Now this is what I would do if I were buying that house they would come off the price buy $25,000 or replace both units of course I don’t know what it costs in that part of the country. Where I am in Florida it would cost about $25,000 to do it right.
Sediment trap on the 1 unit is installed wrong. I used to do in depth inspections all the way dawn to the thermostat type and battery type, if needed for operation.
It is what it is ted.I hated doing those inspections.most of the time I seen the units are end of there life or no refrigerant motors burned out and darn right filthy
pile of rust in the pan, looks to me the unit is sloped towards the wrong side of the evap coil, the water damage is right below the system and lines, what water lines are present in the attic? its either leaking down from the attic or its high humidity in the house, i would move some insulation in the attic and look directly above the water damage..
They look pretty rough Theodore and I understand that you can’t really do much but observe and report. Your comment on the lower unit had me puzzled a little. According to the thermostat it was 70f when you turned it on. At 70 there really is no load on the unit and it is not in pull down mode. Second floor was 76 I believe and would have more load there by rejecting more heat . You need to remember design temperatures for air conditioning are 74f. 👍🇨🇦
i surly hope you told your customer that you wouldnt be getting any actual readings from the unit while doing your "inspection" i dont see why you couldnt get actual valid readings from the unit the seller had to get permission from the buyer to let you in and look at things so what would be the difference if you hooked your gauges up to see if the coils were leaking or not also if you had in ir heat gun you could have gotten a delta T without touching the equipment if thats what you were worried about giving someone advice without getting the full picture is like the blind leading the blind
The units aren't worth the time to put a gauge on. You also risk causing a leak , shrader won't seal again or just break completely from not being cycled it's whole life. R-22 units. You must be blind. Experience always wins. Wasting time is unnecessary.
