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Re: "Yelp"/ angi list for contractors.
As has been said, don't do it. The type of "client" to which you refer almost always has at least one tame lawyer handy. I might add that this is much the same mentality which takes advantage of landlords…
Re: Why pull through airhandlers?
There is a very good reason for pull through. If the air is pushed through a coil you will have spots with high velocity and low velocity= uneven air flow
Pull through allows for an even air flow across the coil.
I don't remember where I read this I think is was in one of my old Carrier books
What Am I Working On? An abbreviated photo dump of the month's activities.
Troubleshooting and writing proposals is how I spend most of my time. The toughest part of it is switching gears several times per day between the multiple systems, locations, and clients.
The first picture is a municipal steam-to-water heat exchanger that provides hydronic heating to a church and food pantry in midtown Manhattan. They're overheating.
The second is of a Leonard mixing valve in Brooklyn. Water temperatures are inconsistent.
Third is an Aerco Benchmark getting too hot too quickly.
Fourth is an NTI high efficiency system installed by the irretrievably clueless.
Fifth is a duplex ejector system in a single family residence that needs constant attention because it fills with cooking grease twice a year.
6th is a high efficiency boiler installed with a back-pitched flue resulting in daily lockouts.
Last pic is graduation day for my Plumbing and HVAC students at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of New York City's trade education program called Mechanics Institute. This is a big day for me at the end of every 2-year program.
Questions and comments are most welcome.
JohnNY
Re: Common issues (low hanging fruit)
Yeah. #1 is installers installing steam boilers.
They either never learned to read if and when they went to school or they know more than anyone else and refuse to read the install manual.
Re: Interior line set runs?
Linesets properly protected in the walls don’t bother me. 8 ceiling cassettes in an 1897 Victorian seems horrible.
Re: What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?
In the mid 80's I came across a job in Levittown LI for a water leak....the York boiler was under the stairs. I went under there with a light to find out what was leaking and discovered someone long before me had McGuyvered the switching relay burnt out transformer with a Lionel train speed controller!??! There was a tag hanging on the controller that said "don't set higher than 7 you'll burn out the thermostat" Can't make the **** up!
Re: What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?
I run two fire tube boilers and have a box of tapered wooden plugs for just that reason. Haven't had to use them yet
Grallert
Re: What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?
Why should the boss be furious? Your fellow employee stayed there he was the safety. I don't see anything wrong with it.
Who would want to shut down an entire hotel?
Re: What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?
I had a smart old timer custodian at a school in VT with a fire tube boiler. It was cold and they only had one boiler. One of the tubes leaked and he shut it down. Went down to the wood shop (when schools had them) and found a piece of hardwood and turned it down on the lathe. pounded it into the tube.
Boiler back on line
Re: What was the best MacGuyver moment you actually saw on a job site?
EBE-Bratt : The boss was furious because...."No good deed goes unpunished! " Mad Dog
