Get your anti-itch clothes on! This SUCKS!

[PaysonHVAC]

IN Arizona, many air handlers are in the attic!
You are lucky to get a cat walk.

And then there are ones like this...





So when you pop up into the attic, you get ONE STEP on the catwalk you can see.





Then it's "WTF? Where am I supposed to step???!"


You have to kick up the inso to find the catwalk. In the process kicking up all the dirt and fiberglass so you can breaththat sh*t the entire time you are up there!





And wiggle through even more of it to access the drain and woking on the coil would be a biatch!


I think if this blower ever dies, someone is clearing the inso FOR ME before I do that job!!! NASTY!



These are the times I want to find the person working for the builder who designs this crap. And kick him square in the nuts!!!

[jeffcdntech]

Seeing all that makes me wonder how much 'glass ends up in the supply air stream

Nothing like working in the itchy!

Man thats bad.

[jdutton22]

Been there, done that!

Watch out for fire sprinkler pipe hiding underneath all that insulation, too!

Last summer I spent half of a day in the attic fixing a Chainsaw Charlie job just like this. Had to move the unit over one foot so the return flex wasn't pinched between the plenum and the wall behind it.

The sad part is that you picture isn't even the worst one. At least the coil is facing you on this one!

[1stanner]

Im from canada and nobody has anything in their attics. Why the heck do you guys put your furnaces up there. There is probably a reason I am curious. I know cold air will fall better than rising.

[turkey]

Lucky you I just finished 2 attic jobs in toronto

[seatonheating]

Here in Seattle it's the opposite. All the duct is usually in the crawl. The furnace is almost always in the garage or 1st floor closet. Hate duct repair jobs here, crawling around in god knows what, ewww. Amazing how many people have water problems in there crawl.

[amickracing]

Around here probably 1 in 15 are in the attic's. Most tend to be remodel jobs or switching from base board heat to furnace.

I've only ran into a couple that bad and they sure do suck! I also hate the old style blown in insulation (grey stuff). Man that stuff turns to a dust cloud by looking at it.

[mook531]

pretty much around here its all attics for A/H's. 1 in 20 will be a basement. blowing black boogies out your nose all day....eghhhh.

[rammer]

the gray insolation i would rather deal with. all that is hear is schreded news papers. sometimes you can actually find a big enough piece and read it.

- that job you were at payson was that westbrook village?

ive gotten the grey insolation in my eye before. i dug at it for over 1 1/2 days. then finaly got it.

[1stanner]

I have been working in HVAC doing service work for about 10 months now and have never had to crawl into an attic.
All the furnaces are either in the basement, on the main level, on the roof, or outside.

[PaysonHVAC]

Originally posted by rammer
the gray insolation i would rather deal with. all that is hear is schreded news papers. sometimes you can actually find a big enough piece and read it.

- that job you were at payson was that westbrook village?

ive gotten the grey insolation in my eye before. i dug at it for over 1 1/2 days. then finaly got it.

Yup Westbrook Village!

Originally posted by jdutton22
Been there, done that!

Watch out for fire sprinkler pipe hiding underneath all that insulation, too!

Last summer I spent half of a day in the attic fixing a Chainsaw Charlie job just like this. Had to move the unit over one foot so the return flex wasn't pinched between the plenum and the wall behind it.

The sad part is that you picture isn't even the worst one. At least the coil is facing you on this one!

And yes, THIS was a ChainSaw Charlie install too!


And I have been in them tracts with the COIL facing BACKWARDS right up against a wall where it goes to vaulted ceilings!

The installers throw it in there, right up against the wall. Get their drains and copper in.
then the inso guys stuff their inso tight in between those units and the wall behind it!

It is HELL ever clearing a drain or accessing a coil!

And I have seen a few with the Furnace backward facing that sh*t too!!!!


We have at a good 50% in the attics.

luckily in Sun City and Sun City West most are on the roof, and some in the Garage or closet with 10% in the attic. Luckily we haven't got too many El Mirage or South Surprise calls that often. Them attics suck too!

[hackramento]

Payson you could always move here to California where it is code to have a 30 inch plat form, and the cat walk can be no longer than 25 feet from the opening to the system. Yes we have all of that insulation and the grey crap from the late 60's is the worst is chokes me up breathing it. 50% of split systems here are in the attic.

[colton]

How can you complain with all that cotton candy? Yum!

- Colton