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May 29th, 2008 Car Air conditioning... Check out this do it your self car air conditioning system...

June 22nd, 2008
Lennox used parts...

June 21st, 2008 Lack of maintenance... This cooler was suffering from a lack of maintenance...

June 20th, 2008 Low suction pressure... Check out why this conventional system was short cycling due to low suction pressure...

June 19th, 2008 Condenser fan pressure control... R22 Johnson Controls head pressure control...

June 16th, 2008 Tyler refrigeration case damage... Check out the damage to this Tyler deli case...

June 15th, 2008
Cool cop...

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...

June9th, 2008 Rusted TX Valve Power element... Check out this rusted out TX valve power element...

June 4th, 2008
Condensate pump not working...

June 3rd, 2008 Cracked Piping Repair... Check out the why this discharge line cracked...

October 23rd, 2007 Ice-O-Matic Maintenance... Check out this Ice-O-Matic ice machine maintenance...

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...

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...

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...

October 1st, 2007 KES Misting System... Service Call: KES misting system not working...

September 27th, 2007 An Open Cooler Costs Money... Financial consequences to an open cooler door...

September 23rd, 2007 Failed Vibration Absorber... Check out this failed compressor discharge line vibration absorber...

September 21st, 2007 Furnace Inspection... Check out this routine furnace inspection...

September 17th, 2007 Thermal Mastic... Refrigeration Installation: One of the guys showed me this product called Thermal Mastic...

September 13th, 2007 Engineered Air... Service Call: Air flow trouble due to bearings...

September 11th, 2007 Boiler Maintenance... Planned Maintenance: Check out these boilers getting a cleaning.

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...

September 5th, 2007 Electrical Vault Air conditioning... Service Call: I found this Carrier unit with some control problems...

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...

August 30th, 2007 New Vision Pro T-stat... The customer wanted a high performance thermostat. I got them a Vision-Pro...

August 28th, 2007 Hot Summer Ceiling... Multiple outdoor units that are inside, heating things up...

August 26th, 2007 Waste Water Over flow... Just one of those days...

August 24th, 2007 Electrical Panel Wasp Nest... The wasp nest made for difficult service work...

August 22nd, 2007
Redneck Camping...

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...

August 14th, 2007 AMC-1032 Monitor... Service Call: CO Monitor short cycling the exhaust fan...

August 12th, 2007 Baldor Capacitor... On scheduled maintenance I found this 115 volt baldor exhaust fan motor tripping the breaker on locked rotor...

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...

August 6th, 2007 Rack high head pressure alarm... Check out this easy solution for a high head pressure problem...

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...

July 29th, 2007 Chemical cleaning your evaporator... This produce evaporator was filthy!

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...

July 23rd, 2007 Warm cake island cooler... This was the third compressor to go on this island cooler...

July 19th, 2007 All Building HVAC systems not working... This is what happens when a electricians fish tape goes wild in the circuit breaker...

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...

July 13th, 2007 Meat freezer bunker sparks... Underneath all that ice was a little surprise...

July 11th, 2007 Unit relocation... This crane had just enough reach to relocate this refrigeration equipment...

July 7th, 2007 Hussman fan motor replacement... Dairy walk in cooler fan motor replacement on Hussman evaporator...

July 5th, 2007
Rush hour...

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

June 25th, 2007 Cooling tower maintenance... Basic cooling tower maintenance...

June 23rd, 2007 Carrier ignition module replacement... The heating on this carrier roof top unit failed to operate due to a failed ignition module...

June 21st, 2007 Plugged capillary tube... This beer chiller had a plugged capillary tube...

June 19th, 2007
Manifold showdown...

June 17th, 2007 Broken pop cooler... Electrical problems on this pop cooler...

June 15th, 2007 Manitowoc series 1800 not working... Quick fix o this Manitowoc series 1800 ice machine not working...

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...

June 7th, 2007 USB drink cooler... Check out this computer USB drink cooler...

June 5th, 2007 HVAC vandalism You never know what your going to see every time you walk on a roof...

June 3rd, 2007
Cleaning the burners again...

June 1st, 2007 General Motors Place... RSES held a tour of GM place GM Place...

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...

May 26th, 2007 Computer room air conditioning maintenance... Simple computer room A/C maintenance goes a long way...

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...

May 20th, 2007 Lennox control board troubleshooting... This Lennox unit diagnosed its self. I just had look up fault code...

May 18th, 2007
Service work made difficult

May 16th, 2007 Worn contactor... The contactor on this carrier unit was in poor shape, time to replace it...

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...

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...

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...

May 4th, 2007 No heat call... It took only seconds to figure out why the heating was not working...

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...

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...

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...

April 14th, 2007 Pigeon mechanical room... We refused to perform any work on these boilers until the mechanical room was cleaned up...

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...

April 8th, 2007 Helicopter used for winter HVAC installation... This chopper made a 20 roof top unit installation effortless...

April 4th, 2007 Server room high temperature alarm... Planned maintenance on a server room goes wrong...

April 2nd, 2007 Locked Rotor... The deli lost a thousand plus dollars of product overnight when the compressor failed...

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

March 27th, 2007 Whore Frost... Lot's and lot's of whore frost...

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...

March 17th, 2007
This caught my attention!

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.

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...

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...

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...

March 1st, 2007 Vending machine Freon recovery... Truck loads of vending machines at a warehouse required refrigerant recovery before disposal...

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...

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...

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...

February 14th, 2007 Supermarket compressor... We changed out this 25 horsepower coplelametic compressor on the low temp rack at the supermarket...

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...

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...

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February 2nd, 2007 Huge crane... Cranes this big don't come cheap but they make it look easy...

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 .

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 .

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!

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.

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