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Those thermostats and relay were common place when I entered the field in 1968. Look how far we have come! They were so easy to trouble-shoot, wire, and repair/replace. Those were the simple days.

That is a sketchy location. What's in the yard in front of it? More or less level? I have a rather nice but exceedingly heavy 16 foot stepladder (one of those contraptions — Werner I think) which would do, but not if the ground wouldn't support it.

I'm cheap. Well, not cheap, but let's say the budget is limited… even so for that application I would find a place which rented man lifts and take it for a couple of days…

Unit shows no error codes. On stat or indoor or outdoor display. No error history. Unit starts runs for 30ish seconds. All motors, compressor, start. Pressures start to drop than outdoor display blinks like crazy. For 5-10 seconds says soft lockout on outdoor display. Than says standby. 3 minute delay and tries again

I prefer to get everything at the same place. Finding a deal for one or two items at one place and another deal at another place and so on… then needing to purchase everything else at another place is just time consuming. Get the best deal at a one stop local supplier is less expensive in the long run. I had better things to do with my time, like getting the actual work completed.

I've been working at a house where the husband is a mathematician/engineer. He was always the one that did the plumbing and electrical repairs in the house. He even did the work to repair any heating system problems. As he got older, fewer things got fixed. Slowly, the Honeywell zone valves stopped working and eventually, there was no heat in the house. The husband is now in a memory care facility and his wife has decided that she wants heat, so she called they only person - still alive - that worked on their system in the past - me.

I've replaced all the zone valves only to find out that none of the thermostats communicate with the controls in the boiler room. I suspect rats chewing through the wiring as they had a longtime vermin problem and I've replaced the old thermostats with Honeywell RedLINK wireless units.

All the old thermostats still work as does the transformer relay. They are so beautiful and I can't bring myself to throw any of them away.

I forgot to mention that TruTech.com is the best place to buy, calibrate and repair. Give them "NCI2025" coupon and get extra discount

For a commercial rooftop access, when the gutters were change, the installer put a steel angle iron frame inside the top of the gutter.

That could be hardly noticed from the ground. The frame was about 3' wide.

It kept the ladder from crushing the gutter and would help to tie the ladder down.

Once secured, the ladder would not scratch the gutter.