I went to this home today. Not on the behalf of a home warranty but the customer wanted their system checked out especially because they had it fixxed so many times by the home warranty and it keeps getting worse.
You never know what some low buck warranty monkey's will do to a poor defenseless heat pump!
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You got to love the flex duct install. That's from the original install though. The entire duct gets connected to each end. That's the only thing that matters to them. Then they throw the slack around all over the attic sags and all. No duct strap.
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Airflow sucks in most of these track homes.
Anyway, That's not what this job was about.
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It's about this poor 5 year old Heil condenser. It was installed to replace a Trane. Of course since it was home warranty, they left the trane air handler in the attic and installed a cheaper Heil. That's not the END of the world in it self. But...
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The compressor died soon after. The compressor was then replaced twice by the home warranty according to the customer.And look at the choice piping job on this baby!
It is hacked to sh*t!
And if that wasn't the end of it. I noticed the compressor had no cap on the electrical. The sticker had all the model and serial numbers faded or something. (Copeland scroll). And you can see on the outside of the condenser they added a new dryer. But the old one is STILL inside.
That must be how them monkey's offset for the lack of a vacuum pump on these jobs!
The compressor was very noisy. Sounded like non condensables were present or something.
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There's a close up of the nice compressor piping.
The customer wondered if this compressor the home warranty co installed was even new. That was a good question.
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Then I found this beauty. The run cap left lose, burning against the contactor but never tripped the breaker.
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It had a hole in it and was leaking fluid. Read down to 3.1 MF but was still working.
Oh. And that yellow wirenut. It was burning.It was the compressor start wire. And for some reason they didn;t have a spade terminal or something. So they wire nutted a much smaller fan motor lead to the run cap. It was burning.
The customer just had us out for a cheap operations check.
It sure turned out to be a P.O.S.
I replaced the run cap and suggested they not even bother spending the $$$ recovering, vacuuming, and recharging (like it needed) because the compressor is most likely nearly toast anyway.
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Oh. And it was nice working in the rain doing what was scheduled as a "maintenance".
It hailed hard at one point. I was standing on things to keep out of the 2 to 4 inches of rain. And the hail came down and it looked like it snowed in Phoenix.
Earlier I had a few RTU jobs in the rain today. One customer said she questioned the dispatcher about me coming out in the rain. She says the dispatcher said "they don't mind. Rain shine or snow, they still work".
Nice...
You never know what some low buck warranty monkey's will do to a poor defenseless heat pump!
You got to love the flex duct install. That's from the original install though. The entire duct gets connected to each end. That's the only thing that matters to them. Then they throw the slack around all over the attic sags and all. No duct strap.
Airflow sucks in most of these track homes.
Anyway, That's not what this job was about.
It's about this poor 5 year old Heil condenser. It was installed to replace a Trane. Of course since it was home warranty, they left the trane air handler in the attic and installed a cheaper Heil. That's not the END of the world in it self. But...
The compressor died soon after. The compressor was then replaced twice by the home warranty according to the customer.And look at the choice piping job on this baby!
It is hacked to sh*t!
And if that wasn't the end of it. I noticed the compressor had no cap on the electrical. The sticker had all the model and serial numbers faded or something. (Copeland scroll). And you can see on the outside of the condenser they added a new dryer. But the old one is STILL inside.
That must be how them monkey's offset for the lack of a vacuum pump on these jobs!
The compressor was very noisy. Sounded like non condensables were present or something.
There's a close up of the nice compressor piping.
The customer wondered if this compressor the home warranty co installed was even new. That was a good question.
Then I found this beauty. The run cap left lose, burning against the contactor but never tripped the breaker.
It had a hole in it and was leaking fluid. Read down to 3.1 MF but was still working.
Oh. And that yellow wirenut. It was burning.It was the compressor start wire. And for some reason they didn;t have a spade terminal or something. So they wire nutted a much smaller fan motor lead to the run cap. It was burning.
The customer just had us out for a cheap operations check.
It sure turned out to be a P.O.S.
I replaced the run cap and suggested they not even bother spending the $$$ recovering, vacuuming, and recharging (like it needed) because the compressor is most likely nearly toast anyway.
Oh. And it was nice working in the rain doing what was scheduled as a "maintenance".
It hailed hard at one point. I was standing on things to keep out of the 2 to 4 inches of rain. And the hail came down and it looked like it snowed in Phoenix.
Earlier I had a few RTU jobs in the rain today. One customer said she questioned the dispatcher about me coming out in the rain. She says the dispatcher said "they don't mind. Rain shine or snow, they still work".
Nice...
