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Originally Posted by hotntired Doing just fine. June was a big month, but July will be a challenge with the first week being a rain-out. Who is your ortho doc? We have some top notch back Dr's in this town. I was taken to bay medical hospital I think they also call it sacred heart or something? DR Doug stringer did the surgery. He has a twin brother Merle who is also a back surgeon. I was paranoid because his first impression is definately not the best. But I think he did a great job.
Doing just fine. June was a big month, but July will be a challenge with the first week being a rain-out. Who is your ortho doc? We have some top notch back Dr's in this town.
Yea cool I probably knew who you worked for then. How are you guys doing over there I checked out your website. Ill be in Panama city on the 11th to meet with the Dr who did surgery on my back after my Atv accident. He told me to get a new career but what does he know right?
Oh well.....by the way...I grew up in Quincy and went to FSU and TCC. Started in A/C as an apprentice with a one man shop in Quincy and moved on. Nice to see "home folks" here!
Originally Posted by hotntired If they happen to have an electric water heater in this garage, a heat pump water heater can make a huge difference in RH and dewpoint....just a thought, but I've seen many going into garages lately and the cool dry air by-product can change the climate in there. Yes they certainly do make a difference. I just put one in my garage and I love how my garage is much drier and even cooler. I have been measuring the condensate and monitoring the %. Yea I'm a nerd and off work due to a injury! I already had a waste heat recovery unit on the existing heater and kept that one as a preheat tank piped in series to the new heat pump. At this house the heaters are in the attic. 3 50 gallon heaters! Customer just had all 3 changed out a month before the job.
Originally Posted by SBKold Yea wondering what he meant too... I actually had to go back to the job because the units are sweating profusely ....the nice wood platforms are already showing some mildew. They set one unit to 69 at night and combined with the 77% RH in the garage @ 74 dew point I recommended a small portable dehum blowing the air over the units. I see no other way to stop it without conditioning the garage air some with the dehum. If they happen to have an electric water heater in this garage, a heat pump water heater can make a huge difference in RH and dewpoint....just a thought, but I've seen many going into garages lately and the cool dry air by-product can change the climate in there.
Originally Posted by viceman are you qouting yourself in your sig line ? nothing wrong with that, just sayin........ Saying what exactly?
Originally Posted by penderway I knew that asbestos fibers were so small they couldn't be evacuated normally from your lungs ,but fiberglass is so much bigger and comes out with the rest of the airborne particles and fibers we breath. So california hasn't banned it, but is putting warning stickers on equipment so people who are afraid can stay away? I'm not afraid. are you qouting yourself in your sig line ? nothing wrong with that, just sayin........
I knew that asbestos fibers were so small they couldn't be evacuated normally from your lungs ,but fiberglass is so much bigger and comes out with the rest of the airborne particles and fibers we breath. So california hasn't banned it, but is putting warning stickers on equipment so people who are afraid can stay away? I'm not afraid.
Originally Posted by mark beiser Fiberglass only causes cancer in the state of California. At least that's what the stickers on all of the equipment say... I ain't moving there then! Good 1 mark
Originally Posted by penderway Who proved that, and when? Fiberglass only causes cancer in the state of California. At least that's what the stickers on all of the equipment say...
Originally Posted by THEone2223 It's been proven that fiberglass fibers lead to health issues and damage to electronics Who proved that, and when?
Makes sense. I didn't realize they were in garage.
Originally Posted by hvac hero Looks nice. We always use float switches on closet jobs. It can save a big mess. Also, did you put running traps in the drain lines? Nice job. Thank you. No float switch since its the garage. Traps are outside. You can actually see them in lineset pics.
Looks nice. We always use float switches on closet jobs. It can save a big mess. Also, did you put running traps in the drain lines? Nice job.
Originally Posted by mark beiser There isn't anything inherently wrong with properly installed duct board. In humid climates, it even has some substantial performance advantages over internally lined sheet metal. Metal duct should be insulated on the out side not the inside fiberglass is a thing of the past within a duct system
It's been proven that fiberglass fibers lead to health issues and damage to electronics
Originally Posted by THEone2223 I would have replaced the duct bored with metal There isn't anything inherently wrong with properly installed duct board. In humid climates, it even has some substantial performance advantages over internally lined sheet metal. Unless there is some pressing need to replace it, you won't get many jobs replacing duct board return and supply trunks with metal just because you don't like duct board... Originally Posted by THEone2223 Change outs still have meet code we have horrible code inspectors here so people get away with doing installs and change out in correctly all the time when you do change outs that's something contractors need to consider when biding a change out sometimes they don't allow them selves enough to correct the problems or they don't care around here they don't care about anything but the all mighty dollar While I'd like to see everything done completely up to code, I don't agree with absolutely rigid enforcement on existing structures. Make it safe, and make the service access reasonable, as is the intent of the code, if not always to the letter of the code. There is absolutely no justification for forcing home owners into spending thousands of dollars complying with codes that don't directly relate to health and safety, or that won't save them more in reduced energy consumption than it cost to comply with the letter of the code.
What were the insulation levels like
This house was a neat project I got to hand pick the equipment for. It was a 3100sqft home with two 3 ton 10 seer trane units. The duct in the attic consisted of 3 9" flex supplies to spider boxes. One unit had shorter 14" return. One longer 16". Needlessto say both had mold issues and lost capacity. The old units pull 13amps. New units 7-8. We installed two more supplies and a return into a sunroom which added another 380sq ft to make it roughly 3500. We used two 2.5 ton identical units which fit the existing undersized duct better. (Sunroom unit running lower static now) Both units have 22kbtu compressors. The other unit is still running at 0.70 - .75 TESP but in range on blower chart @950cfm. The house has been doing great. They keep it at 72/74 during the day and crank the bedroom/sunroom unit to 69 at night. Customer went from roughly 375/month to 275-290/month.
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