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If I drive my truck, my tools and my brain to your house I'm charging you money. Nobody will do this for free.

There is an electrician near me that doesnt even answer the phone. Voicemail says they are only doing work for clients they have done business with in the past 10 years and they are booked 6 months out. ALSO it is extremely expensive to run any skilled trades company. A previous employer with...

That isn't a bad price. understand that there is also travel time to pick up that part, turn it back in for credit and warranty paperwork. probably comes out to $250/hr which is a healthy number. I don't work with anyone elses diagnosis. Many people are retarded. If you called me up and wanted...

Warranties do not cover refrigerant so this + labor is why the cost is high.

Bonus rooms are a scam. You take a room right above a garage which isn't 100% isolated from outdoor weather and put it right next to the fucking roof. The only way you will ever ever properly condition that is with its own system which usually ends up being a mini split.

Any black iron piping outside must be painted or it will rust. Knock the loose shit off with a brush and hit it with rustoleum battleship gray.

Concentrics, vents for your furnace.

Find a union hall and sign up. The best benefits anywhere and after 5 years you can take the journeyman test, scale where I am is around $42 + benefits.

Tramsformers don't usually fail intermittently, I would check to see if you have a drain that is slow to drain and tripping a float switch. Could be a loose low voltage connection too.

Home warranty cos are a scam. I would advise you to find a local company to replace the equipment, ask your friends or neighbors who they would recommend. Any system you can buy today will save you $ in operating costs. That electric bill is huge, either you have a very high electric rate or...

You can try. Your ductwork is designed to cool the exact amount it is doing now, adding airflow to a new location will take it awat from somewhere else.

About $6000 for an 1100 sqft house.

Even if you insulate the fuck out of it, it's still going to be an attic. The only way to make that space livable would be to add a mini split.

I had spray foam done about 7 years ago, definitely helps muffle the noise from outside as well as insulates. Ask about warranty on the product. About a year ago I had to open a bathroom wall and found the spray foam had shrunk away from the wall by a few inches each side.

Avg like expectancy is about 15 years,, guy is trying to sell you a system. 23k is very expensive unless you are being quoted an inverter system, id get a second opinion. Find a local mom n pop shop instead of a franchise.

I read noows.

Hvac equipment has gone up a bunch in the last 3 years. Always a good idea to get 3 quotes. pick the company that does work instead of the one with the best price. Re ductwork, your hvac guy might be retarded, no difference in ducts for single/2 stage equipment.

Random thoughts from an hvac guy. The ac in your house is a sealed system, the refrigerant charge should last the life of the equipment. If you need to have refrigerant added you have a leak. Leak checking is my least favorite task, its tedious af. average life expectancy on modern equipment is...

That's dangerous, having a hot ground. Sounds like you've got a loose connection somewhere on the neutral.

Hard to tell from the pic but that looks like double wall B vent. A vent is what you want to use for wood burners. https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/anyone-use-b-vent-for-an-air-tight-wood-stove.10686/

How do I know I want an arrestor? When my washing machine switches off, it makes a loud noise in the pipes(this is prior to the water softener installation) Thats water hammer, you'll want to have one of the above arrestors or an expansion tank installed. If you already have an expansion tank...

You might have to raise the pipe just a touch to prevent that movement.

Pipe hangers or plumbers strap.

While this is correct it will also add humidity back into the air. Any moisture left on the coil will evaporate back into the air stream, raising overall levels in the house.

Not variable speed, use whichever thermostat you want. Add ducted dehum.

Lot of people like ecobee, similar to nest. wont control the variable speed blower like a proprietary stat would though.

Nest is garbo. home owners love them, hvac guys hate them. newer generation nest is much better than the first. Give us the model# on the indoor unit , trane vs units will have a V in them.

The ac dehumidifies as it runs which brings down humidity levels, with more moderate temps it runs less and home humidity rises. Couple things you can do: Drop the temp a couple of degrees Install a whole home humidifier Leave the blower in auto instead of on If you got a variable speed unit you...

No issues cutting into the plywood as long as you are certain you are not cutting into the roof.

Gross. Barbarian or go home.

You should never see ice or frost on refrigerant lines. This means you are either low on refrigerant or have low airflow across the evaporator. You should have that checked out by a pro. That return duct needs to be insulated.

They're alright, lower end units marketed to diy guys made by I think gree. Go to garage journal.com and do a search, lots of threads and pics of guys putting their own in. Will not need someone to pull a vacuum if you have precharged lines.

Sounds like you have separate systems for upstairs and down, you'll want separate stats for each. Lot of guys like ecobee and nest, do not recommend nest as even with a common installed they fail in lots of weird ways.

good deal.

It depends. What type of line are they running? copper or trac pipe are pretty easy to install and save a bunch on labor over black iron pipe. If your basement is a dump and theres stuff they need to move or access is poor, that adds to the cost as well. It's also possible they dont want the job...

That's my bag, what's broke?

But has tunare died yet?

Could not finish that. The fuck is up with that voice? The up and down inflection in every sentence made me grind my teeth and kick my dog.

Truth. Luclin was about the time soe realized they could purposefully break content to slow down player advancement. Original eq was a great game. So very unlike anything else. Sadly ruined by the very developers who created it.