I R Hack! :(

[mark beiser]

Went out this morning to seal all the duct connections with mastic and seal the supply boots to the cieling on this POS system.

Pulled the return duct off the unit and found this.
Surely its not "just" tape?
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak1.jpg

Yeap, just good old crappy 2" wide foil tape!
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak2.jpg

Didn't have anything on my truck to really fix this properly, so I cobbled some bits of metal onto the corners....
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak3.jpg

And pookied the crap out of it! It actually looked good once I got the insulation pulled up over it and strapped, lol.
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak4.jpg

Someone put a new coil in a couple of years ago, not us.
Good thing for "transition on a roll" when the new coil don't fit!
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak5.jpg

I guess when a RNC company is only paying thier installers <$8/hr, it is cheeper to have them hack up some sheet metal to make start collars than to spend $20 on real ones...
http://home.comcast.net/~mbeiser/ACstuff/5-4-06/airleak6.jpg

[seatonheating]

Uh oh, Mark is hacking now too.....lol.


I would've sold em a square to round for that unit connection or I wouldn't of touched it.

[MadeinUSA]

What’s sad is the fact even if most homeowners go up and look at the hackery, they still do not know it is hackery. All the shiny tape etc., they think, oh look how beautiful it is.