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Are you guys brazing?

Im a 29 year old Union HVAC technician in so cal at 42.00 per hr about to get a journeyman position in a few months with pay raise to 53.00 per hour with 10 years in the trade , doing installation and service of residential and commercial units not to bad

Watersource heat pumps usually fail due to refrigerant leaks in the coax coil I would have definitely replaced the hoses and added ball valves and strainer

I had to fix a leak in my condenser on my mini split Diakin. Winter freeze compressed the bottom copper tubes and developed a pin hole leak.

Deferred maintenance is a fascinating subject

The best explanation of a stat I’ve ever heard Love you man

EXPAINED ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING in a way that anyone would learn anything! Explained absolutely nothing about basic anything. Welcome to California!

I have worked in hvac for 18 years thinking about opening my own business

I started at 9 an hour in 2010. Minimum wage was 8. I had gone to trade school so i had a head start. Now people are getting 15 an hour for minimum wage and it grinds my gears. Im making enough but looking at 15 to nuke burgers at McDonald's makes enough less and less. I don't have a plan to combat inflation but feel like lots of employees ask for alot they haven't earned and some companies gouge customers just as bad. If people wanna start their own business and put the effort in thats great. Im not selling stuff or managing people and don't want to.

Bosch are now comprised of mostly or entirely of Chineseium alloy parts. If you are going to sell and install them, stock up on parts because they will take time to get. Think “Slow boat from China”

to add in on this. I have a coworker in a hvac controls company. lead tech or close to it, he makes probably around $57 an hour. his role is service

My electric/hvac guy does 32 under a big franchise. No BS I'm interested in real numbers

I’ll be 25 next month been in the trade since I was 19. I’m in central Cali, I’ve been tenpted to get out of the valley and go to the bay or southern Ca 👀 I’ve always done purely service/ maintenance very little install.

Does this mean they won't install if you have a gas stove?

Need to go to commercial , residential pay sucks no matter where you go .

You don't have to rob people to make good pay. Learn the trade and get your journeyman and master license.

At 4:16 - are the fresh kids entering the field that are 1) highly intelligent, 2) good communicators, and 3) motivated towards success the ones making over 6 figures after several years into their career (assuming a HCOL city)? Will these same success-driven kids make close to $200k after 10+ years into their career assuming a regular 40 hour week? I only ask because intelligent and motivated kids like these are highly sought after by employers and have many career choices, including going to college and working a high paid office job (in a HCOL city) with additional benefits that might be less common in the skilled trades, such as 401k matching, more generous vacation and sick policy, hybrid work week, flexibility to easily take care of a sick family member and lastly (partially) paid time off for the birth of a child.

I make $28 an hour as a slot technician in Las Vegas and work full-time four days a week.

55$ on the check union in Oregon , full benifit are around 89$ truck and power tools provided dues are only 40$ a week and one 60$ monthly payment

I make 39 an hour non union. Was union however wasn’t feeling the brother stuff. very weird stuff had to put my hand on the union bible and say I wasn’t here to overthrow the government. Only legal monopoly allowed.

Been working for the same small family owned company for almost 40 years.we have been a Carrier dealer since 1952. The quality of Carrier has gotten so bad.installing 25 SEER infinity heat pumps and the inverter boards bad out the box.ordering parts is outrageous also.

20y old, got a year residential experience, NC starting pay i got into was 20/h. I'm wondering how ppl make 6 figures, the way I'm seeing it if you're not a owner you ain't making it. Was looking into commercial but i like how residential is besides pay and so much sales depended.

If you pay those two almost 30………. Let me put in my application with a minimum 50 starting point

Im in Hvac School right now. Is there any advice?

Union Gig is really pretty solid. They cram left wing political crap down your throats sometimes but unions definitely help workers rights overall in the area.

If you think your guys will stick with you, give them a percentage of profits a year! Keep them happy and consistently making more per year. Send them to training. I started in resi non union most I heard someone getting paid was $50-60per hr with 401K health and a few other benefits. I def didint know my worth and topped at $29 but was offered more to work at other companys. Just wasnt interested. Now im over $50per hr ,union, great benis, and will top out over $70 as Journeyman. Benis and pension make it more per hr when you think about it. Really helps as sing father. BUT charge for your work bro ! Yall can kill it non union! And should!

If you do residential you won't make much being an honest tech. Commercial, industrial, refrigeration are where it's at. Residential is pretty much all sales now.

One man and a van can easily bring you 6 figures, but you need to be able to make that jump

Union here in DC is $55 an hour

In residential, your pay depends on what kind of calls dispatch gives you. 🙃

How’s your quality of life after transitioning to an owner from an employee. I’m in Florida and you are right, pay down here is shit, working towards buying fathers company when the time comes. Don’t want to sell my soul for lead tech position at 22/hr. Been in trade for 5 years now.

Florida is bad for pay , but the cost of living in socal is very high. Hopefully Salt Lake city is better than FL

Great video! Real talk is always appreciated

It would be pretty funny if I was the replacement Jonny😅

i really like the content made for hvac guys. I personally like how you show things like rebates programs and how you advertise into things like yelp and reddit. Im also a small hvac business owner trying to stay consistently busy all year so i can be more hands off. Keep up the good work

24 years in business. It’s been very slow since May. Slowest year other than year one. Booked up 1-2 days out. Plenty of hvac school graduates, jacklegs and DIYers. People blow money on food, vacations, ATV’s, 4wd lifted trucks with balls hanging from the hitch. HVAC - not so much. Our China/Mexico sourced equipment prices are up 100% in four years. The quality sux. Distributor customer service sux.

We have had trouble hiring people in San Diego especially with experience.

Super helpful! Thank you

I get where you're going with this, but there is always the "X" factor. Service isn't hard... it is always about logic.

great info, keep the videos coming, got my c-20 recently and love ur videos!

Hey you finally got some proper shirts!

new office?

New spot? Badass.

let us know if you end up selling one of these and be sure to show us the process would love to see it. also who does your embroidery? looks very clean

Great channel. Enjoy the straight shooting no bs approach. I’m trying to teach myself about mini splits and I’m slowly getting there. Quick question. Say you had done this the “book way” and recovered what refrigerant was left in the system. After doing that, you would pull a vacuum before weighing in what the data plate says. What I can’t find, is do you pull the vacuum on the empty system with the service valves open? If so, is there anything special you have to do with the EEV or anything in the outdoor unit?

you ever use a fieldpiece SNCV1 24v ncv tester (or comparable) tester to do it quicker without having to poke leads down in the wire nut not knowing if your in it or not ? just a thought you might have to pull other wires out of way a bit with your fingers so it don't pick up them. maybe I'll try your hopscotch method with ncv and poking and see what happens

Thank you for the information

Nice

Clueless......

I thought the same thing. And then we installed one. It was dead quiet. Super easy startup. Now I don’t want to install anything else. Had 37 🔼T with outdoor temp 62 running just heat pump in test most. That’s gas level heat.