HVAC & Refrigeration Worker Stories


May 29th, 2008

Car Air conditioning...

Check out this do it your self car air conditioning system...

Car Air conditioning

June 22nd, 2008

Lennox used parts...


Lennox used parts


June 21st, 2008

Lack of maintenance...

This cooler was suffering from a lack of maintenance...

Lack of maintenance

suction pressure
June 20th, 2008

Low suction pressure...

Check out why this conventional system was short cycling due to low suction pressure...

Condenser fan pressure control
June 19th, 2008

Condenser fan pressure control...

R22 Johnson Controls head pressure control...

Tyler refrigeration case repairs
June 16th, 2008

Tyler refrigeration case damage...

Check out the damage to this Tyler deli case...

June 15th, 2008

Cool cop...


car hvac

ice cube machine
June 14th, 2008

Scottsman ice machine overheating...

Check out the why these new air cooled Scottsman ice machines failed...


June 10 th, 2008

Plugged TX valve strainer...

Check out this plugged TX valve strainer...

Plugged TX Valve strainer


June9th, 2008

Rusted TX Valve Power element...

Check out this rusted out TX valve power element...

Car Air conditioning

June 4th, 2008

Condensate pump not working...


Condensate Pump not Working

refrigeration
June 3rd, 2008

Cracked Piping Repair...

Check out the why this discharge line cracked...

ice cube machine
October 23rd, 2007

Ice-O-Matic Maintenance...

Check out this Ice-O-Matic ice machine maintenance...

Fluke meter
October 21st, 2007

Undersized Rack Feeder cables...

At full load the electrical feeder cables on these racks were over heating due to under sized cables...

October 17th, 2007

Condenser Chemical Cleaning...


Condenser Chemical Cleaning

modulating output boilers with Tekmar controls
October 15th, 2007

High Efficiency Boilers...

Check out these modulating output boilers with Tekmar controls. The savings in oil consumption will pay for the installation with in two years...


October 9th, 2007

Fluorotech fluoromizer Recovery Unit...

New Fluoromizer recovery unit was used to recover R12 from collapsing walk in cooler...

Fluorotech fluoromizer Recovery Unit...

double trap condensate drain...
October 7th, 2007

Evaporator Double Trap...

HVAC Installation: Check out this fully functional double trap condensate drain...


October 5th, 2007

Fujitsu AC Split...

Service Call: See the importance of the remote thermostat location...

Fujitsu AC Split...


October 1st, 2007

KES Misting System...

Service Call: KES misting system not working...

KES Misting System...


September 27th, 2007

An Open Cooler Costs Money...

Financial consequences to an open cooler door...

walk in cooler

Failed Vibration Absorber...
September 23rd, 2007

Failed Vibration Absorber...

Check out this failed compressor discharge line vibration absorber...

Furnace Inspection...
September 21st, 2007

Furnace Inspection...

Check out this routine furnace inspection...

thermal mastic
September 17th, 2007

Thermal Mastic...

Refrigeration Installation: One of the guys showed me this product called Thermal Mastic...

fan shaft bearing
September 13th, 2007

Engineered Air...

Service Call: Air flow trouble due to bearings...

boiler maintenance
September 11th, 2007

Boiler Maintenance...

Planned Maintenance: Check out these boilers getting a cleaning.

repaired condenser
September 9th, 2007

Refrigeration Emergency...

Service Call: This supermarkets refrigeration system went down due to a single fan blade...

September 7th, 2007

Ridgid Pin Up Girl...


ridgid pin up girl

t-stat wire
September 5th, 2007

Electrical Vault Air conditioning...

Service Call: I found this Carrier unit with some control problems...

rusted cooling tower
September 3rd, 2007

Rusted Cooling Tower Mounts...

Maintenance: Its going to be a major problem if the cooling tower mounts rust out...


September 1st, 2007

Rheem Control Board...

Service Call: Air conditioning not working...

rheem control

honeywell vision pro
August 30th, 2007

New Vision Pro T-stat...

The customer wanted a high performance thermostat. I got them a Vision-Pro...

split ac
August 28th, 2007

Hot Summer Ceiling...

Multiple outdoor units that are inside, heating things up...

hvac plumber
August 26th, 2007

Waste Water Over flow...

Just one of those days...

hvac wasp nest
August 24th, 2007

Electrical Panel Wasp Nest...

The wasp nest made for difficult service work...

August 22nd, 2007

Redneck Camping...


redneck camping

Carrier HVAC Unit
August 20th, 2007

Carrier HVAC Unit Relocated...

Just had to hook up the electrical and the natural gas...


August 16th, 2007

Blanchard-Ness Evaporator...

Freon leak in the evaporator with near failing rusted power element on the TX valve...

tx valve

amc-1032-monitor
August 14th, 2007

AMC-1032 Monitor...



August 12th, 2007

Baldor Capacitor...

On scheduled maintenance I found this 115 volt baldor exhaust fan motor tripping the breaker on locked rotor...

Baldor Capacitor

heat craft
August 10th, 2007

Heat Craft Transformer Failures...

These new Heat Craft evaporators are starting to get a transformer failures...


August 8th, 2007

Gigantic keg cooler...

Check out the water leak from this gigantic keg cooler...

fan blade

HVAC control board
August 6th, 2007

Rack high head pressure alarm...

Check out this easy solution for a high head pressure problem...

rheem control board
August 2nd, 2007

Defective Rheem control module...

The stat was calling for cooling yet the board failed to energize the fan contactor...


July 31st, 2007

Bakery freezer not working...

After hours call. Bakery freezer not working...

bakery freezer

nu-calgon
July 29th, 2007

Chemical cleaning your evaporator...

This produce evaporator was filthy!

hvac controls
July 27th, 2007

No AC...

Had to trace all the controls for this one...


July 25th, 2007

Freezer door fire...

Check out this Anthony glass door electrical damage...

glass door freezers


July 23rd, 2007

Warm cake island cooler...

This was the third compressor to go on this island cooler...

fan air flow


July 19th, 2007

All Building HVAC systems not working...

This is what happens when a electricians fish tape goes wild in the circuit breaker...

fluke meter

manitowoc
July 17th, 2007

Manitowoc ice machine broken...

No ice production and the sump was over flowing with water...


July 15th, 2007

Oil failure switch constantly tripping out...

This one goes to show you how important it is to keep a log book on site...

oil failure control


July 13th, 2007

Meat freezer bunker sparks...

Underneath all that ice was a little surprise...

burnt plug


July 11th, 2007

Unit relocation...

This crane had just enough reach to relocate this refrigeration equipment...

crane rtu


July 7th, 2007

Hussman fan motor replacement...

Dairy walk in cooler fan motor replacement on Hussman evaporator...

fan blade

July 5th, 2007

Rush hour...


bad traffic

york high limit
July 3rd, 2007

Tripped high limit on York unit...

You have to find the high limit before you can reset the high limit...


June 29th, 2007

Greenheck birds nest...

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Check out what I found on top of this Greenheck air handler...

hvac bird

evapco
June 25th, 2007

Cooling tower maintenance...


ignition module
June 23rd, 2007

Carrier ignition module replacement...

The heating on this carrier roof top unit failed to operate due to a failed ignition module...

capillary tube
June 21st, 2007

Plugged capillary tube...

This beer chiller had a plugged capillary tube...

June 19th, 2007

Manifold showdown...


HVAC manifold gauges


June 17th, 2007

Broken pop cooler...

Electrical problems on this pop cooler...

pop cooler


June 15th, 2007

Manitowoc series 1800 not working...

Quick fix o this Manitowoc series 1800 ice machine not working...

manitowoc series 1800

hvac helicopter
June 13th, 2007

HVAC helicopter...

Check out this giant helicopter move 34 roof top units in 1 hour...


June 11th, 2007

Iced up bakery walk in freezer evaporator...

Bakery freezer coil ice up...

iced up heat exchanger


June 7th, 2007

USB drink cooler...

Check out this computer USB drink cooler...
usb drink cooler


June 5th, 2007

HVAC vandalism

You never know what your going to see every time you walk on a roof...

hvac vandalism

June 3rd, 2007

Cleaning the burners again...


boiler cleaning

stadium hvac refrigeration
June 1st, 2007

General Motors Place...

RSES held a tour of GM place GM Place...

belt driven condenser fans
May 30th, 2007

Lennox old style condenser fan set up...

This old Lennox roof top unit had belt driven condenser fans...


May 28th, 2007

Evaporator drain pan plugged

The butcher said his walk in cooler was a waterfall and that the last time the drain lines were cleaned was three years ago...

plugged evaporater drain pan


May 26th, 2007

Computer room air conditioning maintenance...

Simple computer room A/C maintenance goes a long way...

air conditioning maintenance

worn fan belt
May 24th, 2007

Worn fan belt...

RPM down due to a very worn out fan belt...


May 22nd, 2007

Seasons 4 HVAC roof top unit...

Monster of a system this Seasons 4 unit is bullet proof...

seasons 4


May 20th, 2007

Lennox control board troubleshooting...

This Lennox unit diagnosed its self. I just had look up fault code...

lennox HVAC

May 18th, 2007

Service work made difficult


difficult HVAC service work


May 16th, 2007

Worn contactor...

The contactor on this carrier unit was in poor shape, time to replace it...

contactor


May 14th, 2007

Pulley replacement...

Routine maintenance led me to this exhaust fan that was prematurely wearing out fan belts. I took a closer look and found the old pulley was worn and warped...

pulley

freon recoverory
May 12th, 2007

Freon recovery...

We were called in to recover the R22 refrigerant on this old AC split...


May 10th, 2007

Exhaust fan motor change...

We replaced this exhaust fan motor had electrically failed...

exhaust fan motor

EPR refrigeration
May 8th, 2007

EPR adjustment on supermarket refrigeration case...

Case temperatures were a little warm. I checked system operation and ended up adjusting the EPR...


May 6th, 2007

Ghetto HVAC unit...

This ghetto carrier unit made for a challenging service call...

ghetto hvac system


May 4th, 2007

No heat call...

It took only seconds to figure out why the heating was not working...

carrier unit no heat call

reznor unit heater
April 30th, 2007

Reznor unit heater installation...

New Reznor unit heater installation...


April 28th, 2007

Fan motor rebuild...

The bearings went on this fan motor. Rather than replace it it was cheaper and faster to rebuild it...

motor rebuild


April 24th, 2007

HVAC technician goes to hospital...

This apprentice had to go to the hospital after nearly losing his hand to the fan blades...

HVAC mechanic

carrierHVAC unit
April 22nd, 2007

Office smells like bakery...

They had enough. Office staff called us in due to strong odors entering their ventilation system...


April 20th, 2007

Iced up Compressor...

I walked into the compressor room after a store renovation and found this meat cooler compressor completely iced up...

iced up compressor


pigeon mechanical room
April 14th, 2007

Pigeon mechanical room...

We refused to perform any work on these boilers until the mechanical room was cleaned up...

run away dumpster
April 12th, 2007

Run away dumpster...

My work van was nearly smashed by this run away dumpster...


April 10th, 2007

Broken produce misting system...

Crisp, colorful vegetables tell customers that produce is farm fresh and delicious, which increase sales. Broken misting systems cause dehydration and spoilage...

produce misting system


April 8th, 2007

Helicopter used for winter HVAC installation...

This chopper made a 20 roof top unit installation effortless...

air conditioner helicopter

high temp alarm
April 4th, 2007

Server room high temperature alarm...

Planned maintenance on a server room goes wrong...

locked rotor
April 2nd, 2007

Locked Rotor...

The deli lost a thousand plus dollars of product overnight when the compressor failed...

fragile
March 31st, 2007

Delicate work...

This guy had to maneuver his 12 foot ladder through chandeliers and crystal to do the maintenance on 5 heat pumps...

March 29th, 2007

Happy Valentines Day


valentines day HVAC


March 27th, 2007

Whore Frost...

Lot's and lot's of whore frost...

whore frost

freon R-22
March 25th, 2007

Supermarket copper thieves...

The manager of this grocery store called us in when all the coolers in the store became warm. The rack lost 600 pounds of R-22 when thieves attempted to steal the copper lines in the parkade...


March 23rd, 2007

Computer room flooding...

Stupidity; this server room became completely flooded...

computer cooling

March 17th, 2007

This caught my attention!


work truck

working on the heating at night
March 15th, 2007

Working late again...

The hotel across town had no heat and had insisted on immediate repairs. The roof top unit had damaged controls and a failed fan motor. The job took hours past sunset to complete.

HVAC football
March 13th, 2007

Football fan...

Football fans are always finding new ways to prove their loyalty to their favorite teams...


March 11th, 2007

Emergency steam boiler replacement...

A small break in the weather when no heat was needed allowed these guys to replace this replace this steam boiler...

steam boiler replacment

HVAC swamp thing
March 9th, 2007

Where's the unit...

Excessive amounts of plant growth made it more challenging to find the unit than to actually repair it...


March 7th, 2007

Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, Japan...

Check out the cooling towers on this 173 meter tall building in Japan...

japan cooling towers


March 3rd, 2007

Failed second stage heating...

I was doing a routine maintenance on one of the supermarket HVAC systems when I found the second stage heating failing to initiate...

vending machine refrigeration


March 1st, 2007

Vending machine Freon recovery...

Truck loads of vending machines at a warehouse required refrigerant recovery before disposal...

vending machine refrigeration

cold dog
February 28th, 2007

"The animals are cold". Broken Voyager...

The heat at the veterinarian was not working. I put my ladder on the roof and found a failed Trane Voyager...


February 26th, 2007

Airedale roof top installation...

This Airedale unit is pumping out some major BTU's...

airdale HVAC

smart frige
February 24th, 2007

Smart fridge...

Introducing the smart fridge, the refrigerator of the future...



February 20th, 2007

Plugged capillary tube...

The gauges don't lie. This single door reach in cooler had a partially plugged capillary tube and a low refrigerant charge...

yellow jacket


February 18th, 2007

York roof top unit installation...

For the last two days we have been installing three new York roof top units. New electrical, gas lines, thermostats, the works...

flooded roof


February 14th, 2007

Supermarket compressor...

We changed out this 25 horsepower coplelametic compressor on the low temp rack at the supermarket...

copeland compressor

freezer ice up
February 12th, 2007

Reach in freezer not draining...

The bottom of the deli reach in freezer was just covered in ice...



February 10th, 2007

Living room insulation...

Apparently this house was losing a lot of heat through the fireplace so these frat boys came up with this solution...

fireplace heat loss

evaporater fan gaurds
February 8th, 2007

Meticulous butcher...

The fan guards in this meat cutting room had started to rust leaving debris on his product...



February 6th, 2007

Fumes in the office...

Office staff were concerned when they smelled fumes in the room. Their carbon monoxide detector didn't pick up anything but they called us in anyway...

fumes in the office
V V

February 2nd, 2007

Huge crane...

Cranes this big don't come cheap but they make it look easy...

hvac crane

tecumseh AN compressor
January 31st, 2007

Tecumseh AN compressor replacement...

This compressor is from a small 10 ton process chiller. The top is a built in accumulator. This sucker is heavy.




January 25th, 2007

Make up air unit sunset...

Finished up my day working on a make up air unit. I was able to catch a glimpse of a peaceful sunset .

hvac sunset


water pump and impeller
January 19th, 2007

Worn out water pump impeller ...

Tennants were complaining that there was no hot water. Turns out the water pump impeller was a little worn out .


January 15th, 2007

Slippery roof ...

Every HVAC technician needs a pair of these .

roof top unit

regulator
January 13th, 2007

No Cooling...

We were called out after the previous contractor failed to resolve to problem . The thermostat was set to 10 degrees Celsius...

January 11th, 2007

Short to ground...

This guy was tightening up a lose connection on the contactor when his screwdriver became part of the circuit. The unit was live, oops!


burnt electrical

cooling tower fan motor
January 3rd, 2007

Fan motor replacement on cooling tower.

Not your average fan motor replacement. This 15 Horse power motor weighs 300 lbs.


January 1st, 2007

Replaced compressor on a train...

Replaced a hermetic compressor on a train today. We had to brace a support on the liquid line to prevent excessive vibration.

train compressor change

bad wiring

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