It's a great feeling when....
You run in to a longtime customer and he tells you the Rinnai Tankless water heater you installed in 2007 is firing 🔥 away like the day it went in. Mad Dog 🐕
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Agreed! I have installed so many Rinnai on demands, and maybe worked on 2-3. I dont love their boilers, but the wall heaters and the on demands really work well. It's a little baffling!
Tom
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Rinnai boilers, tech support and availability of parts are very good too. Even in Vermont!
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I never tried the boilers, but the Tankless heaters are excellent. Mad Dog 🐕
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Rinnai: the "Toyota" of heating equipment. A Toyota truck is my principal and largest "tool." It gets me to the job sites with my other tools and materials.
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Be careful what you wish for. Whenever I get a job that runs good after a long-time failure is imminent. Murphy's law.
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True that! I stand waiting. Knowing what to expect. That's all I can do.
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We've never met, Matt, and I don't want to overstep, but you aren't giving yourself enough credit. I have no idea what a Rinnai Tankless looks like - or how to install one - but that's not the point. Chances are, that great feeling that you have is not just due to the Rinnai being a good product it's also because you're a professional and installed and initialized it as intended. I come to this forum because I find the world that you all live in interesting. I'm amazed by what you all do, and the honor, skill and tradition that is passed down from generation to generation within your trade. Don't sell yourself short. The best equipment in the world (be it Rinnai, John Deere or Apple) means nothing if it isn't properly selected, installed, operated and maintained.
Also, Mad Dog, when you were a kid, were you an annoyed puppy? 😁 Keep up the good work!
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I know that money is important, but I get the most satisfaction from a job that is symmetrical (artful) and correctly done. The best that I could do. If not, I make it right at my own expense. That's what gives me a great feeling.
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My mother said I was a nice, quiet, happy, even timid child UNTIL first day of Kindergarten at P.S. 207 How'Beach, Queens, when I joined The Rat 🐀 Race: Anthony poked me the eye because he wanted the blocks I was playing with. John M. aka "The Paste Eater" (Remember the big jars with the wand) wasn't potty trained and I was stuck next to him all day...pew..…
When my mother peered in the classroom window later that day with the other moms, Mrs Kamen had us in a circle of chairs facing eachother. I had taken my chair and faced myself away from the other kids. Like the Irish Wolfhound..."Gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked..." That was my first anthropology, Sociology, and welcome to the jungle life lessons. Thanks for the kind words my Fellow Farmer. Mad Dog 🐕
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Me too Homer, that's one of the reasons I've never attained great financial success, but that's cool 😎 with me....it's never been about the money 💰 for me. Mad Dog 🐕
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Every day I drive by a 2 1/2 ton Rheem AC cond unit I installed in the early 1980's.
It is still cooling a small insurance building.
It had a DOA compressor upon first start up. It was a series of sub standard compressor high pressure by pass valves that would not reseat. Rheem furnished a new compressor, filter drier and some pittance for labor, maybe $60.
R-22 charge was dumped as was the standard at the time. No nitrogen flow. Probably StayBrite on the suction.
15% on discharge and flares on the LLFD. I did have a vacuum pump for triple evac with R-22 (what else) flushes between evacuations, and certainly no micron gauge. Just bury the analog for at least 1/2 hour or more.
Then the building was remodeled and the AC relocated.
So over 40 years of run time.
Tomorrow when I drive by there might be someone changing the unit out as this posting has cursed it.😉
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We did things the same way.
No micron gauge, no nitrogen while brazing, evacuated until you were tired of waiting or took a long lunch, never pulled Shrader's to evacuate. Most of the time no SH or SC readings charged it until the pressures looked right unless it had a sight glass, and the equipment lasted fine. The only "upgrade" I used to do was an oversized filter drier.
Once had a Carrier unit that they complained it wouldn't cool. Put my gauges on it and it had a 50ish lb suction pressure while running. After I jammed it full of R-22 I looked at the nameplate and it was R-500 which Carrier called Carrine (or something like that)
Whoops!!!
I think that was my first year in the business. Never went back their so don't know what happened. It was cooling when I left.
LOL
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At the same time I installed a HP in a house. There was a possible problem with the by-pass valve and Rheem offered a new compressor and reversing valve. I did a pre-emptive change out, not wanting the failed debris to get into the reversing valve.
Changed the compressor and rev valve using the same process as the AC. That Rheem HP ran for over 30 years before compressor failure……full time in Northern Nebr winters….no cold amb cut out.
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why did they use a blend instead of 22?
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