Any of you own HVAC company?

[Shadowrider]

Dustin I just went with a complete reinstall in my house. If you end up going new, it really won't pay to much higher than 14 SEER on the condensing unit. If you match your A coil to the unit right you can get up to about 16 SEER out of that 14 SEER unit. If you go with the an 18 SEER unit you'll never save enough to get your increase cash outlay back. I did go to a 96 AFUE gas furnace though, because ONG has a $550 rebate going so that one made sense.

My old Goodman unit was a noisy sumbitch and it was from day one. This 3.5 ton is twice the size of that Goodman 3 ton and you can barely hear it run. I'm sure my neighbors love that.

 

[tyromeo55]

Dustin, No hard feelings if you want to call the other members who posted above and see if they can do it since they are closer. surely they can do it for the same price since they don't have to drive from T-town =)

 

[338Shooter]

I'm gonna stick with you, Ty.

 

[338Shooter]

Tyler fixed me up. I slept like a baby last night. It was amazing. I didn't realize how poorly I'd been sleeping. It took 4.5 hours to cool my house from 87 to 73.

 

[twoguns?]

Dustin, No hard feelings if you want to call the other members who posted above and see if they can do it since they are closer. surely they can do it for the same price since they don't have to drive from T-town =)

Did you just solder the alleged hole and recharge it?
Or did you have to replace it?
Seemed like an easy enough fix?

 

[twoguns?]

Tyler fixed me up. I slept like a baby last night. It was amazing. I didn't realize how poorly I'd been sleeping. It took 4.5 hours to cool my house from 87 to 73.

Good deal, if you get a good AC guy (not a salesman) they can usually make them work. Good for TY

 

[tyromeo55]

Did you just solder the alleged hole and recharge it?
Or did you have to replace it?
Seemed like an easy enough fix?

Kinda but Its not that straight forward. We almost completely took it apart ( ruud engineered it to where everything had to come apart to get to what we needed), recovered the little bit of freon that was left in it into a recovery cylinder and then put a dry nitrogen charge in it to make locating the exact point of the leak and to aide in soldering. The leak was exactly where dustin said it was. Totally a factory defect where they swaged the tube too deep that finally wore through end plate. The fins in that location had to be pushed back a little and the place had to be cut to reveal the hole. The area was cleaned, fluxed and silver soldered. After the repair we put another nitrogen charge into it make sure the leak was successfully patched. After it was repaired we re-assembled the unit, removed the nitrogen and vacuumed out the lines and weighed in an initial charge. We checked confirmed that there was a fixed orifice and not a TXV and finalized the charge by checking the superheat.

While we were at it we found a leaking service valve so we replaced the core for good measure.

Ya know, Before I get flooded with PM's to repair everyone's heat and air please start a new post and see if the community can help. I'm way too busy to take on a ton of side work also I probably did it way too cheap but I didnt loose any money and Dustin is such an asset to us here and is always willing to help a brother out. It was time someone did him a solid

 

[eaglerjs]

Ya know, Before I get flooded with PM's to repair everyone's heat and air (send all those PM's to eaglerjs) I probably did it way too cheap but I didnt loose any money and Dustin is such an asset to us here and is always willing to help a brother out. It was time someone did him a solid


Thanks I have plenty of work, but I try to help as many as I can.

 

[elwoodtrix]

Kinda but Its not that straight forward. We almost completely took it apart ( ruud engineered it to where everything had to come apart to get to what we needed), recovered the little bit of freon that was left in it into a recovery cylinder and then put a dry nitrogen charge in it to make locating the exact point of the leak and to aide in soldering. The leak was exactly where dustin said it was. Totally a factory defect where they swaged the tube too deep that finally wore through end plate. The fins in that location had to be pushed back a little and the place had to be cut to reveal the hole. The area was cleaned, fluxed and silver soldered. After the repair we put another nitrogen charge into it make sure the leak was successfully patched. After it was repaired we re-assembled the unit, removed the nitrogen and vacuumed out the lines and weighed in an initial charge. We checked confirmed that there was a fixed orifice and not a TXV and finalized the charge by checking the superheat.

While we were at it we found a leaking service valve so we replaced the core for good measure.

Ya know, Before I get flooded with PM's to repair everyone's heat and air (send all those PM's to eaglerjs) I probably did it way too cheap but I didnt loose any money and Dustin is such an asset to us here and is always willing to help a brother out. It was time someone did him a solid

good on you!!

 

[tyromeo55]

RE:.... (send all those PM's to eaglerjs)

Thanks I have plenty of work, but I try to help as many as I can.

I apologize eaglerjs. It was not fair of me to recommend you without even asking your permission to do so. I've updated my post.