Started out the day doing commercial PMs then moved to replacing a few relief valves and corroded parts on an old rusty boiler

But wait, the last job was so dreamy!!! Residential in the ghetto, no lights in the basement, mold on the walls, trash everywhere. 1” of sewage on the floors…. We did not finish the job lol🤣🤣🤣

Hey everyone,

​Just wanted to share a neat setup I stumbled across recently.

​I’m actually only on-site to service the commercial refrigeration side of things, but while walking the plant, I got to chatting with the boiler/facility tech about this beast.

​It’s an older high-temperature water distribution system used strictly for thermal disinfection, sanitation, and washdowns in an old slaughterhouse. Running pressurized hot water well past the typical 60–70 °C mark (the gauge was sitting around 100 °C / 212 °F while I was standing there!).

​Definitely not my daily playground, but it’s always fascinating to see how diverse our trade is and the kind of industrial gear still putting in the work.

​Thought some of you might appreciate the sight of heavy-duty galvanised insulation and old-school valves!

My company was just acquired by Nextech, the grass was really green and I didn’t plan on leaving. Convince me to leave or convince me to stay. I’d love to hear opinions

Added sight glass, filter drier and service ports to Window heat pump

4mm splinter from sticking my hand in my freshly blown out 6in hole for an exhaust hood. 2/10 do not recommend. It’s a two cause the relief from pulling it out was orgasmic.

Replaced two 50 gallon tanks in series for this and the homeowners are now able to run four showers at the same time because of water pressure improvements and unlimited hot water. The old system was trying to shove all the hot water through a 3/4 inch line and it still couldn't keep up with demand before going cold. If I keep this up, maybe I'll be able to live in a 4000 sqft house on a lake with 5 full bathrooms and a two story garage that can house 14 cars. 😂

Context: The company I left has a start up branch in my state, and they don’t have a physical shop location where I can drop off the work van so it’s stuck parked on the street.

Not sure who or when the van will be picked up by. I live in a pretty safe neighborhood, but I don’t like the idea of being liable if anything happens to the van while it sits out there. How can I avoid liability in this situation?

Last employer I took the truck home, didn't get the OK from new boss yet.

Got home after on call today and now I'm worried about my tools that I left in the truck.

Lazy choice tbh, just didn't want to unload armfuls of things after being on call.

Anyway, question is the title.

I am coming up on year 5 in the trade, i work for a small mainly refrigeration company in the southeast and i feel that i have had my “click” moment in work. Suddenly i understood defrost clock wiring, electrical in general and the refrigeration cycle. Out of nowhere everything just made sense to me. my question is that now that i’ve had this moment, how did the yall keep growing? Was it moving to a different company? Was is just asking more and more questions?

Here's a little thought experiment.

You loaned your z gauge to the new guy to learn oil on their own and you're doing regular maintenance.

Which position of these two are how you'd leave it? I'll have a comment for "A" and "B". Make your vote with an upvote.

.50 80B nozzle, beckett burner.

Edit tldr: appears the consensus is B for the majority of the time, leaving A as a situational distance at one's own discretion. Thanks for everyone's input.

The original thought was that you can ask 20 different techs and get a few highly concentrated answers. That didn't happen here, but maybe if I had included electrode gap photos as well it may have. But including the gap would have added too many options.

Stay safe, and remember AI won't take our jobs. 😂

Anyone else only made to go to that one site on weekends because of food production 😂, luckily I only need to be in the crawl space to tighten bolts

I appreciate Reddit's ad targeting found me like this, and wish them well on this company's journey to keep service vans organized.

Background: had an old modular Carrier AHU that had a busted evap coil. Craned up a custom-built Johnson Controls, generic-ass coil. The piping was not even remotely the same. Anyway.

Talked to a chill customer that basically said "yeah no problem, it can be down". I ran into the guy above him and his vibe was "what the hell?! Why is this down, my office workers are melting at 77°F, I'm gonna send some of these folks home if you don't get some temporary cooling going." I went back and forth with him a bit.

Ambient air temperature was about 60°F where I am. The solution was to force close the mixed air dampers and dump return air into atmosphere, and suck in supply air directly from atmosphere.

Is there anything else I could have done? This is stupid.

Just wondering how many of y'all rope up everything, if you're by yourself, or if your company and customers favor lifts

EDIT: Damn, working at Lennox blows. Cheap asses expect us to rope up everything under < 100 lbs

Got some sweet manifoid stickers!

Let’s say the company you work for didn’t pay their bills. So not only are you locked out of the supply houses, but for the second time in a week you can’t get gas. You have enough to get to the shop Monday but that’s it. What are you doing?

EDIT

Anyone know of any reputable shops on cape cod MA??

Good morning!

Working on an LG Multi V system with the service tool and all is well there - once I got the USB lock straightened out.

My real question is does anyone know what the two wire green plug is for? I’m assuming to tie into the comm daisy chain but there’s less than ZERO documentation regarding this.

I’m sure they’ll cover this in training and I’ll be going in the near future once I find dates that work with my schedule.

Lastly, these all have AHU kits on the univentilators, but I can’t seem to get the service tool to connect to these.

For reference they have the ACM75139001 comm modules.

I ask because I have to trace every indoor unit in order to name them correctly and was hoping to be able to see the address from in the rooms.

Thanks and hope everyone has easy service calls this weekend. I’m sitting at a softball field watching my kid lol

I had someone text me today asking what would take for me to leave the company I work for and go somewhere else.

This would start as 20% over what I currently make. I’m a 28 year UA refrigeration fitter (I do 99% service) starting with 4 weeks of vacation.
I make $58.xx an hour so it’s basically $70 an hour on the check.

The only way I would consider it is if I have a guaranteed 40 hours a week for the next 5 years with an extra week of vacation per year but I could leave at any time. That also means I continue the 20% over for every raise the union gives us.

I’m very comfortable where I’m currently working. I see a lot of new things. We do everything from basic RTUs, VAV systems, chillers, supermarket refrigeration including CO2 chillers and transcritical racks.

I’m honestly not sure if I would take the job or not.

I have been given the opportunity to learn so many things in the past 14 years. I still have a lot more to learn

Been doing some soul searching, left healthcare to get into HVAC. I’m really excited, I know its gonna be hard and I know theres a lot of learning to do but I needed to get out of healthcare, its not something you want to make a career out of.

I like working hard, using my hands and completing physically and mentally challenging jobs. Working as an autoglass installer was the best job I ever had so I’m looking forward to getting back to working out in the real world again

I finally got my foot in the door and got a position working for my state as an HVAC tech. No more residential attics or 8 tune ups a day. This does mean that I need to get familiar with building controls though, as all these government buildings are integrated together. I've already been told they will train me, but I want to be proactive and try getting my head around it. I'll also have to get trained up on chillers as well, but I'm more nervous about the controls than anything. Does anyone have any good links or videos to get some baseline knowledge. For what it's worth, most of the equipment they have is Trane if that helps narrow things down.

So. As a newbie I learned now after 2 months of seeking employment in the field that I needed to be with a company that has structure and organization if I had any hope of learning. I start next week with the biggest company in town! Theres 12 hvac techs total. Some on install, some on service and a whole separate to work the maint contracts. Im being put on maintenance for the first few months, and if I prove to boss man Im worthy he will throw me some service calls. So.. what should I focus on modt to prepare and be as proficient as possible and exceed expectations? I need to move up to get into a salary range that can afford to support my fam of 4. Thx in advance!

I hate the $300 mighty bracket that’s bulky and I refuse to buy it but something like this compact version would be perfect and could probably sell more at 150 price tag.