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If a gadget can help you diagnose a problem, give the customer visual evidence to make them a better informed consumer, and build more confidence with the customer, it's a small investment that'll...

He was pretty active here years ago. RIP Big Bird.

Turns out I lived 4 blocks away from him 30 or so years ago.

Top gun? That disqualifies me. : /

You'll be totally reliant on the key people. What's your plan if a few leave (and take contacts)?

You know how the Hollywood always like to use ductwork as a ridiculous means of escape or to cause action packed mayhem? This 61 y/o guy actually did it...though I'm sure it wasn't bright, clean tin...

Sounds more like we're the ones getting valuable advice here. Thanks a million!

Giving drive time, within reason, at the start and end of day is normal. Everything in between is billable to the customer. If your employer doesn't agree, let him employ someone else to drive around...

Ever think of the direct approach? Tell your boss what you want and ask him what milestones you need to meet for him to agree you deserve it.

They are around me. The last job I had, run by a liberal business owner, employed 6 Daves. all but one have been replaced by Joses. I'm not saying they're as good, just more obedient.

Don't...

Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't every self employed person worked entirely by commission when he struck out on his own...including your boss?

That said, predatory tactics give the entire...

If I could turn the clock back 30+ years I'd get in to the instrumentation/calibration/automation field and get a plumb job working for a water company. Those guys don't get their bodies beat up,...

See the edits.

If you don't care, call Urgent Air.:oops:

ACME Heating.

Get him a gift card for a vasectomy. That's at the top of his list.

Part of that looks a lot like my boat refer.

I think you're entertaining a fool's errand. A window shaker or portable would be a better use of your time and money if the noise doesn't disrupt the...

Resi or commercial?
A working termination fitting and the esthetics of the average residential roof are mutually exclusive... but that's just another reason residential kitchen hoods are impractical.

Auto parts stores make a fortune off "savvy" people.

The quickest way to do HW work and have a million dollars in the bank to show for it is to start with 2 million.

The equipment itself leaks and is tested in it’s entirety. So zero is unreasonable. California dictates 6% leakage for new work, 15% for replacement work and ducts insulated with asbestos are exempt....

High static loss and high velocity are usually two mutually exclusive conditions. How do you reconcile that?

You might find someone interested in working with you on a T&M basis...or you might not.

Well, if were expecting apologies...

Sir, if you think the insensitive use of the pejorative "hack" is acceptable, you're wrong. I want, no, I demand a sincere apology.

It doesn't matter if you can engineer and build a system like you describe. The problem is that the industry doesn't have enough qualified people, broadly available, who could understand it's...

Code dictates the maximum tonnage on a given line size. Also it's against code to bust the outlet down in size.

So he wants you to foot the bill for a service that benefits only him for a transaction that you have no control of? It'll cost him a lot more than $250 to recover $250 worth of unrolled pennies....

If there's a documented specification that needs to be identified for a piece of manufactured HVAC equipment, there's an AHRI standard testing procedure that needs to be complied with.

Let's hope it's truely a simple accident and not another "some people did something" incident.

After I flunked out of college in the 80's I set my sights on joining the union but was told that a spot on the waiting list was 2 years out so I went to a trade school in Phoenix. Phoenix wasn't for...

Of course they do. You need to understand that the contractor is the customer and you're the commodity.

If your outdoor design is above 95 or the indoor is below 80, you have to derate the advertised capacity to get the real world capacity. The manufacturers publish the data needed to properly...

Half the cooling coil will be starved for air and I bet the cfm stinks.

I looked at a "standard" climate master wshp last week. Commissioning standards allow a water temperature of somewhere between 20-120.

Mint Alnor 2 x 2 Balancing hood, 0-1400 cfm. Less than 100 hours use. The case has a few minor scuff marks.

$1,000.00

Do they taper off before they go to prison or just go cold turkey?

I found those accounts are the easiest. You don't have to waste your time on checking something already broken...you just write "multiple repairs pending approval" to cya. Troubleshooting stuff is an...

DO NOT think for a second that stairs are necessarily safe. I encountered a set of stairs a few years back that I didn't know was missing a hand rail until it was too late. I severed the tendons that...

Sounds about right. Over time the iom manuals will be re-written and if the manufacturers have any confidence in the strategy/product, they'll list it as acceptable. Most of my inspectors wouldn't...

Thanks for the suggestions but if the XP is salvageable, I want to use it.

A) I like XP
B) it stays off line
C) I have many monies wrapped up in software such as Wrightsoft that wouldn't jive...

I fall into the most people category. When I get the machine back, I'll try to fumble thru your instructions before I do anything else with it. Thanks for the tips.

I'm not really sure. The guy doing the work said the recovery size was 1.8 tb which struck me as odd since the previous hard drive was nowhere near that size. You're right though, I don't need...

So I'm specifically asking this forum of like minded people about backing up an XP computer because I figure you guys are smart enough to offer me great advise without having me translate a bunch of...

How often do you see posts that indicate grossly oversized equipment? If you're an avid reader, you see a lot. Now how many of those threads also state they had some form of load calculation done?...

If you don't intend on working in the residential field, I wouldn't take a temporary position just for some temporary income. The experience won't really help you land a commercial/industrial/market...

Duct leakage to unoccupied space will undermine a runtime engineering method of sizing.

If you're losing any significant amount of conditioned air which is ultimately replaced with outside air,...

Okay, play dumb.

Post 13, the one calling a longtime forum member a clansman, got one up vote...by you. Was that you that clicked "like" or did your cat walk across your keyboard?

Spare us your phony moral superiority....you up voted a guy who portrays people with a conservative perspective as clansmen.

You own it.

I had to replace a coil on an obsolete Mammoth wshp last fall. It was 30% cheaper and 4 weeks quicker to pull the coil and have it duplicated locally than to deal with the company who bought Mammoth.

Hard to say for sure over the internet. If the W/H and clothes dryer share the same air source, it wouldn't be difficult envision the w/h flue backdrafting during dryer operation with the envelope...