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Originally Posted by duct_dude

Fedders use to make a package unit that went in the attic.Had a call on my first one told the lady I would go around the back and check it out, I could here it running from the porch. Went all the way around and back to the door I thought someone was pulling my leg. Sure enough it was in the attic. The condenser used a blower wheel that sucked air up a 12 inch duct from the eve acrossed the coil and back out to the eve.Worked ok but very loud.

Yep, I inherited about 20 of these all HP's. When they finally died the attics were SO SMALL, I had to cut them apart with a torch to get them out! And we had to get them out to install a new unit. What a PITA

I think it looks good, The roof shades the condenser in the summer an keeps leaves out of it in the summer.

w.t.f---

Just when you think you’ve seen all the stupid …..you realize there’s much more out there.

Nice, probably in a right to work state, or should I say, right to be a hack state.

Of course it had to be a goodman unit

what inspection!

Builders can do anything !!! ...............and get away with it.

Unbelievable! I could hardly believe what my eyes were seeing. How can someone get away with this?

that is insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We actually had a rooftop unit that was mounted on the roof, Untill they decided to frame around it and make it part of the attic. The left a 24" hole and metal chase from the condener fan to the attic vent. I hated to work on it, BUT it was at a stripclub.

maybe Payson finally got his point across and dietz crane isnt going to put them on the roofs anymore. just kidding..

They told us at East Coast that this unit would replace an Insider, but it like to have killed us getting that in the attic.

Nice.

Had one customer's self styled engineer husband build a roof over the pkg unit but it was a large attic area. Argued with me about it, just said screw it. House is a water front mansion. Have to listen to every new tech that sees it.

Have a large condo that has Freidrich thru wall pkg units in the center room of the condos and the outside coil is ducted to outside. One a the installing contractor's techs put a R/A grill on the intake duct. So much thought goes into doing something wrong.

[QUOTE=duct_dude;300532]Fedders use to make a package unit that went in the attic.

Those old Fedders were called Adapta-matics.
Here in South Florida there was a contractor that did this in an entire development. Hundreds of package units in the attics.
Real pain to service.

Shocking, should get the state board involved and take action on unlicensed installers or pull some licenses.

Years ago, I saw a package unit mounted in an attic. It had the condenser air exhausting out the gable, but it was pulling condenser air from the attic. They had two 6" flex runs from the evap side running to the condenser coil to keep it from tripping on high head.
I told em I wouldn't work on it. They didn't sound surprised, and even said I was the third guy to refuse to work on it. But they still wanted it "repaired" instead of "fixed".

wow back from the dead, quite possibly the most famous Goodman ever lol

Our first FL house had a ducted Bard unit installed in garage ceiling. It was a split with evap on oil furnace. The cond sucked air in from eave vents and blew it out of a duct in the gable. We used to stand under it after swimming to dry off! That Bard ran 26 years with zero problems.

Imagine having a pack unit over an inside a warehouse office ceiling on a plywood deck! Now a tech wash's out the cond coil with a garden hose! It happened!