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I also appreciate the kwality carpentry in front of that furnace.

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Like a glove!

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I was in an apartment in which the previous occupants smoked so much weed that, over 3 months, the BACK of the filter was oozing oils. Needless to say, I was there to clean it

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Don't often see the 100° fitting...

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I'm guessing that the HO complained of poor heating and the previous "tech" just made the unit bigger. And won't back their work.

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Probably was a room there. I see studs and top plate in the background.

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Helping coworker move. Was waiting for them and found this.
2 ton unit on what appears to be undersized lines, with the lines running unbraced across the floor. Dryer gas line hops down, goes...

Run that water heater. It'll be real warm, until the fire department shows up.

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IP1X. It provides protection for hands but not fingers.

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Starts roughly 19x19, goes to 10x20 (yes, 20; the duct isn't kicked so there's an overhang), then to 16x20 for the filter. It's 2.5 tons, 60k. (Edit: tonnage is rough, there's only 3" between the...

I work in property maintenance. Got a new house, went to check furnace. Found this lovely return boot. It shrunk the duct enough that any filter I put in there implodes from the air velocity. Also...

The drip is the person installing this..

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I see it all the time in apartments. Not even a hint of an idea how to budget. As in, this unit is rent-assistance, I'm pretty sure a 42" TV isn't a life requirement. No, you can't fix stupid... but...

Not positive, but is the fan blowing in or out? Methinks the vent would be too close to an intake (appears that's an outside wall).

Depending on direction, also acts as door closer.

Parents' house was built late '20's. Always ran NG, here in east Iowa. Later in decade, and a boiler not furnace, but still possible.

Congratulations! You passed the first test - finding the unit!

I bet they were wondering why it didn't seem to work as well as it used to. Good luck!

Had a chimney get plugged with 15 gallons of gunk. Enough heat backed up that the top of the water heater was starting to melt.

Here in Iowa, meters are usually in an interior space and normally have an OSY, ball, or other valve ahead of them.

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Are the start collars undersized? It looks like there's a gap. ...like that's the worst of it...

Brief update. The "Torrid Zone" was originally coal, and yes gravity heat.

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Other than what you see here, no info available. Found in an old rental I was in from the early 20th century. Enjoy!
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What's with the "wall of disconnects"?

Makes getting to the burner compartment fun.

"Gecko mount"

Niiice. Somewhere I have a photo of a NEMA 1-rated disconnect sitting under a sink, at 277V. How this stuff passes I'll never know.

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NEMA 1 electric panel AND non-GFI outlet! Bonus!

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Part of the fun is getting enough space to swing it.

Isn't there an NEC bit about maximum height to a disconnecting means? That box looks rather high...

So when the deck goes in, what of the gas meter in the corner?

If I recall, OSHA requires GFI's. I might be hallucinating though.

AKA The Kill-O-Matic.

Well that blows my record out of the water. Congrats?

Yep, twinned heat-only system. Runs four smaller apartments in a converted early 20th century house.

I work for a housing network and ran across some nice old wood ductwork in one of our units. It's all nailed, and just the bottoms are metal.
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Yeah, even better here since they plumbed our locker room toilets with hot water! (No joke)

We lucked out at our house. Tech walked the property, asked where I wanted it, ran it inside via an existing conduit, then cable - stapled it the 20-odd feet on the inside to my existing line. Very...

Something I've done is tie hot and neutral together once the power is off. With LOTO it adds another level of safety. A good breaker will trip even being held ON by a dumb homeowner.

Curiously, four wire telephone cable is black red green yellow. Maybe tstat wire and phone wire share a common past?

I swear I saw a post on here about a 10k-ton chiller in DC. Anyone have a better memory?

Did a guy in a hat with a bull whip stop by?

It was a DMX512 cable, which may be 24V. I had one hand on the lighting control board (metal case) the cable ran to, the other reached for the belt pack. The fault, found to be in an intelligent...

First, it's not 200mA, it's a mere 6mA across the heart. Incoming would be higher, due to tissue losses.

Second, I had 107V volts bite me.... on a low voltage data line (we metered after the...

This guy REALLY doesn't understand "can" versus "should".

Is that a radon fan??

Not familiar with closed loops? We had a large outfit tell us we didn't need makeup water because it's closed loop; still no explanation for the lack of expansion tank.
And funny enough, there's an...

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