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I'll try some pics this weekend. Added 3 employees and another truck this spring. Been busy

It's what I had on the truck. Works.

Nothing fancy here. I put the union in the cabinet oh wait there is no gas line on this.


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Not sure on age of old unit, early 90's probably.

I did the electrical. I'm not an electrician so no *****ing about it.

The only hot water they use is a shop sink and 2 bathroom sinks. ...

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Think I'd have passed on that job. Good for you for doing it.

Real nice!

They buy them buy the skid and the janitor does it. You've never seen a shop floor so clean, janitor is ontop of stuff.

They use connection that keeps the duct more rigid and keeps it from popping. This is about as big as you would want to go. You could use ridged s and get by with a bit bigger

That's a grinding room, the dust collection is above the room. Fun to work around. Guess what they grind in there. Graphite. My boots are still black.

Less than ideal but I made due with what I had. They should work a lot better. They mostly run in ac, the machinery makes enough heat to heat the building.

By far the cleanest machine shop I've...

ugh this was not my project but I was brought in to finish it.. Big company put in five 10ton water furnace geo's in this machine shop. Didn't have big enough ductwork. Along comes another company...

Doing a nice job used to take time but not really much slower at all anymore. Just start doing it. Take pride in what you do.

You bet. Clear. First time you dump a can of purple crap over you will never use it again. It looks like garbage on the pipe too

Bottom and side are open yes.

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no kidding, I hate it.

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She's 160lbs. She doesn't fit on a van seat.

Yellow jacket bullet. It works, never cared how fast it is. I don't change the oil very often. Probably abuse but i've had it several years. Hard to justify a tez8 when you're doing residential..

Back to shop to get whatever gets forgotten if anything and drop off trash/scrap, let dog out, eat, back to job...

Bill, I got to the job about 8:30, we packed up and left by 4pm. We probably took an hour and a half for lunch. New indoor and outdoor both. Thats average time. Sheetmetal I made beforehand,...

looks great!

Thanks guys! Those are ez pull linesets. We got some on discount and we have been using them every since. Just buy 50' ones and keep them at the shop.

Filter box is part of ANY bid. Think we get $80 for that. I can make that drop in 30 minutes and it's 2 sheets of metal. Replacing the drop honestly saves time. It's easier for me to replace the...

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Good work, you do the whole shebang on rough in. If I did that here the furnace and coil would be so full of drywall dust and construction trash. Usually run stat wires, all duct, flues,...

I typically shoot for a level furnace. Am I doing it wrong? I don't put furnaces in attics so I sure don't envy you!

You heat it up enough and its easy to manipulate, just got to watch it wanting to smash flat.

I just use a propane torch. Ive bent 3" before, think I used a big propane radiant heater to heat that up with.

You assume correct. Alarm, cameras and a siren that goes off to grab the neighbors attention. Siren is ear piercing. Most break ins around here the thieves are in and out in under a minute. Alarm...

lol Been driving it to work lately.

Supply house wants us to keep some equipment around but honestly I see it as a bad thing. Most of the time people can get by a day or two. BUT my biggest...

Just ordered a pile of tools to fill it up

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What do you store sheets of metal on in the shop? 4'x10' sheets particularly. We need to do something different. Was just curious if anyone had a picture of how they did it?

Caleb ran his down the gas line, not sure where I ran mine lol

Yeah I always do.


I've started putting some pics of stuff on instagram if anyone wants to follow along on that page. @hvacmanjim

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lol ill use the foil with butyl rubber on it for duct seal, in my eyes, properly assembled metal duct really doesn't leak that much.

I don't use mastic. No code for it here. Looks like crap and what are they gonna gain here?

funny you say that, of all things its a room under their back patio. Has crawl vents to the outside. Concrete ceiling. Full of old junk

Here they just leave it on and paint it. Now it's "encapsulated"

And that's what's wrong with society today. Stuff has been there for years and never bothered anyone. It will continue To be there for many more years and never bother anyone. Just takes some...

That reducing elbow 22x16 to 26.5x12. Enough for 3 tons for sure.

No idea. I just peel some back and let it rip. I would much rather hard pipe it but for time and money sake this works much better. I used some 1" for the first time the other day. Showed up to...

Thanks, unfortunately on this one they were both so old and in bad health they haven't been in the basement in years. Hopefully the kids enjoy it because I don't think they will ever see it

Doesn't everyone? Thanks for the tip.

Tooks out an old 100% efficient gas model, it was blowing exhaust in the crawl so technically 100% made it in the house :whistle:

Stairs sucked.

Anyway it was crammed in a closet in the...

I buy the mueller clips then got to the nerd hobby shop and buy 10 ga silicone wire that they use on r/c cars. Solder them up and they last a few years. Big plus is they usually have obnoxious...

got ya. Cool stuff for sure.