residenntial v/s commercial

[GGilles]

What is residential A/C? What is commercial A/C? Is it the tonnage or just the occupancy type?

Jerry

[amickracing]

I'd say it's just who lives there... Good chance you won't install anything over 5 tons in resi, and if you do, it'll be 2 or 3 units. Also, split systems are the majority in resi, very few package units.

Commercial.... well, you can run into everything from RTU's, regular split systems, mini splits, you name it. I'd call RTU's and split systems light commercial... pretty much anything with a chiller heavy commercial, or RTU's big enough you can set up patio furniture inside lol

What I'm not quite 100% sure of is what qualifies something as industrial vs commercial.

[Airmechanical]

What is residential A/C? What is commercial A/C? Is it the tonnage or just the occupancy type?

thats an easy one, if its a buisness, then its a commercial account (which may use residential equipment)

if its a home, its a reidential account (which hardly ever has commercial equipment)

commercial equipment to me means RTU's (roof top units) and 3 phase equipment!

also as stated equipment over 5 tons 99% of the time is commercial hvac



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[Tech Rob]

The difference between commercial and industrial lies in what you're cooling. If it's people, then most likely you're working a "commercial" job. If you're cooling machinery and processed fluids in addition to people, that would be "industrial"

Residential is crawlspaces, attics, b*tchy homeowners, 5-6 calls a day, and small equipment.

Commercial is 150* white rubber rooftops in July, building "engineers" who think they know everything, 2 calls a day, poorly lit dirty old mechanical rooms tucked away in some remote corner of the building, and about a half-million dollars worth of tools in your van.

[Diceman]

You live in residential, and work in commercial.:rolleyes: