How Many Calls In ONE Day Is Too Much?? | HVAC Life
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2020
- I often ask myself, how much is too much in one day?? At what point does it become inefficient to add more calls in a single day. Obviously taking care of the customer is high priority, but at what expense? These are the things I think about as the calls are rolling in. This HVAC industry is very demanding, but it is our job to regulate quality and thoroughness. What are your thoughts? How many service calls in one day is the right amount for you?? Let me know down in the comments!
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I don’t care how many I do in a day. I just wanna make sure I fix it right and no one has to come after me for a mistake.
Facts
Rework is not only a bitch, it's more a slap in the face.
U Could use a 90340 fan relay so that way the blower motor would cut off when it needs to ...right?
5 calls max. In my opinion
@@erickhines4121 You’re getting paid by the hour 😂
Been in the trade about 10 years
Got licensed and working for myself the last year roughly.
The days you are backed with calls/ jobs are rough but the money makes it worth it.
Plenty of days out running calls from 7am-8pm
Than in my office sending out estimates from 8pm 10-pm
To wake up the next day and do it all again.
What most of summer looks like for us "One man shows"
It has its ups and down however nothing is like working for yourself. No more watching your boss go on vacation every month while you bust your ass everyday for a 2 week vacation every year.
No shitty co workers you have to cover up for or apologize for to customers.
Especially when your the "lead" tech and get sent to every angry customer or every afterhours difficult job.
No more nasty office girls who hate their life and take it out on the techs.
My advice to anyone in the field ,
Put your time ,get licensed and go on your own.
STORY OF MY LIFE
Sounds familiar brother.. went through the same BS for 4 years and now on my own as a 1 man show. Would have a hard time going back to "working for the man".. So easy to get spoiled.
How do you switch it up around winter
Cool video, TY. Greatest move I’ve made was going on my own. Biggest challenge is finding a solid helper, apprentice or journeyman to join me. I’ve been through several people trying to find that solid 2nd person. Probably just going to go back to being a one-man band lol
Kevin Myers I’m 36, fresh out of the military, very interested in learning this trade and have called several local companies to see if they will train me. Have a few good leads so far, so I hope it works out. What advice would you offer an apprentice? Good luck to you
Honestly, this looks like fun being on your own just fixing stuff knowing the problem traveling and all and I like working with my hands as well it's better than sitting in an office pressing buttons all day. This feels like honest work just you and the machine and I've noticed all the youtube technicians have nice teeth.
@Falloutnewskyrim really thanks for sharing man.
I think the actually installing and maintenance part can be easy or a huge pain, but the fact that you don’t work in the same environment and setting everyday, that helps with burn out
Gotta get in with the right company. That evap job would of been my whole day. If my torch comes off the truck, that's an 8 hour day. Which means I roll in at 9am and leave at 2. Also stay away from residential. Did that for 2 years. Nothing pissed me off more working 8-9 hours installing a furnace and a/c, by myself, and then being the on call and having three calls waiting for me. Those companies run you ragged. Go commercial. I do my one service call a day, maybe change a filter, drive to the parts house, do some grocery shopping, whatever. The customer leaves me alone, I dont go over prices or have to fight to collect the check. And I'm not even union. All my union buddies tell me I work too hard! 23.5 years in HVAC and I love it.
I worked for a company for 2 years and they would run the piss out of you
Lmao I just left residential after 2 years and got in with the union and that’s literally what the foreman I work with is like ... I don’t mind residential but some of those attics are not fun lol especially down here in Houston
That sounds like a dream. My company keeps my literally RUNNING some days....but now our crew is big enough I don’t have to get as many calls done in a day. Working HVAC service in Hawaii.....beautiful scenery, lots of no cooling calls.
So basically you just want to sit on your ass all day and do nothing. I wouldnt be bragging about running one service call a day.
@@ryanlockhart2255 I do commercial hvac in the usaf and trust me we do a lot of fucking off even with our civilians
I’m in hvac school with 2 more months left to go . Thank u for putting these videos up . It keeps me sharp in class. I have high hopes to owning a business one day bro
Fr I barley started this year im 17 🙏🏽
You are like by far the most organized HVAC technician I have ever seen in my life! 👍👍✌️✌️👊🏼👊🏼
After 6 I get tired. Got bills to pay tho. Summertime is officially here. Had 7 today.
The company I just left I was averaging 7-9 calls a day. The new company I just started averages 4-5. Much more laid back. They also treat us right.
My husband worked 80 hours last month 4 weeks. With 1 day off. It was crazy. He had about 7-9 calls a day. He is by himself the only HVAC tech in the company.
Hope he’s coming home to amazing food and a clean house
As technicians its easy to become tunnel visioned on just fixing the problem you were called there for. Remember you get paid for the problems you solve, not the amount of calls you run. Personally I find running 3-4 calls allows me time to do a thorough evaluation of the entire system and fix the multiple problems most systems have, but the customer is unaware of.
Lots of bosses disagree with you and want in and out. Lots of customers call me a con man for telling them their bb coil is a well known problem. Glad you have that advantage, lots don't.
Definitely not true, brother. Though, i wish it were.
Working across 3 different companies, both commercial and residential, bosses were of the mindset that “look around, see what you find, 10 minutes, then get out.”
My GM doesn't think that she's burning us out. She was hired last year and has no knowledge or experience in trades. She wants us to run as many calls as possible because "there's money left on the table". I spent 3 hours on a maintenance, because customer was 2 lbs low on charge. So I and the new tech did a leak search starting at the evap coil working back to the condenser, found a bad Schrader and fixed it/ charged for refrigerant and labor. She was mad I only brought 460 and spent 3 hours. I told her now we won't have a call back on it.
Yeah. In a perfect world i’d say 6/7 calls with attention to detail is a happy career. But when I was residential, 10 was a slow day and it didn’t give me the time I needed to learn the systems properly and set me up to take shortcuts I never thought I would. You can have the best intentions and become a product of your environment. My advise is to tell any hvac company you’re looking to work at that you want the time to not only learn but to do your job properly once you have learned. If a company isn’t willing to be patient enough to let you become a proper technician then they aren’t respecting you enough for you to work for them
When I was in my 20s doing residential, summer time meant working unti 10-11pm often times. I went to commercial HVACR and had normal hours and took on-call every fourth week. It’s better for the family man.
I’m having the opposite. Commercial 15-20 hour days and residential is pretty much 9-5.
What state?
@@obama7325 California. Sacramento at the time. I work for a large commercial entity now, and rarely go in after hours. I’ve been in HVACR for 30 years. Getting well rounded is important. Working mostly restaurants for a few years was excellent, and working for a plumbing/HVAC helped as well. So many techs get a narrow field of experience, limiting their options. I now service everything in a restaurant, boilers, dehumidifiers, pool heaters, and HVAC from mini-splits and pack units to 30k CFM air handlers.
I was just looking into getting into HVAC school to get certified. I currently run my own window cleaning business and thought this field can be a good way to supplement for the slow season in the winter when it rains here in southern California. Trying to add more value to my clients. Going to see how this 10 month course goes👀 pretty excited for something new
Keep doing these type of videos lots of service calls and I get to see what an hvac technician does best 👌👌
You get to see what a good tech does. Most techs don’t buy 4500 plus in tools like this guy has. All top of the line equipment. I have never seen anyone filter the refrigerant when doing a recovery.
@@chris.5434 only needed if you're going to reuse the refrigerant
Love your video style! When you explain the call in depth it's even better.
Hey man just found your channel, you motivate me to want to push as hard as you knocking out all them calls like that.Good work!
Thanks for doing these " Day in the life" videos. Really enjoy them!
this is awesome! i do Hvac in Sydney, Australia on Daikin heat pump split systems and VRV's. Love you videos and the insight of how you do it over in the states! your ute set up is wicked!!
That's an honest day's work right there, great info and knowledge!
Wow I really enjoy your videos brother.. You seem like a great guy with a family that loves you.. I'm the same way but working in the transportation industry.. I love people that work hard and take pride in what they do like yourself.. I salute you thanks for caring about what you do bro! New subscriber!
I’ve been swamped lately with work. I’m looking back at your video archives and found this one! Thanks for the info.
20 service related calls in a day during the winter here is the north east is the max I have done in the 23 years as an oil heat/HVAC tech. Everything since then for number of calls in a day is a walk in the park. That was a long Saturday. 6am-9pm. I called another tech out to cover the last of the 22 that came in that day.
The only other day that was that bad was in the middle of a blizzard. Worked the normal 8 hrs., then had an hour to eat supper, back out until 12am, sleep for an hour then back out 1am until 8:30am the next morning, back home to sleep for 4 hrs. then back at it until 6pm.
Those days are far and few but they can and do happen. These two particular days were 8 years apart.
I think anything over 8 calls in a day can be a bit much if it is everyday.
Great content ! Like how you keep everything organized and neat
I came across your videos when I done a search for the trane run true. I work for Lee Company as a residential Hvac service tech which I have to say I have a love/hate relationship working for a big company. I have to say I truly respect what you are doing and you do really good work. If I see you around I’ll say hi! Keep up the good work man!
Dude, you’re a true professional and asset to your profession! I wish I had a guy like you to call on.
Ice Man.. everything you do is smooth..(Top Gun) Awesome work. Very detailed, clean, neat.. organized. No panic, not sloppy, in control. Your not all over the place and not sure. Your confident cause you took the time to become good at your craft. God Bless Brotha.
I love the job link man I never leave home without it nice work!!!
Your vidieos are very teaching like. You explain things in detail, and very well. Love them, Man!
I'd love to see a truck setup/tour video. I'm in the process of looking for a service truck/van and I really like the style of yours from what I've seen in videos.
Thanks for all the vids dude you really help out a lot of fellow techs including me !! Keep all the service videos coming plzzzzz
You’ve inspired me to start vlogging my installs. Glad I found you!
I remember that I was working so many hours that I was not getting enough sleep. I came back to the office late one night after working 12 hours straight and my boss told me that I had to leave for Dallas at 5 AM the next morning. I told my boss that I wasn't getting enough sleep and he said that he didn't care. I fell asleep half way to Dallas and wrecked the company truck. Several of the company employees heard me tell the boss that I wasn't getting enough sleep so the owner didn't fire me for wrecking the truck.
Your boss is a dangerous idiot. Find a new boss
Love watching your videos, positive attitude, never complaining and ready to work
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the vids!
First video of yours I've seen subscribed when i heard Nashville. Can't wait to check out some more.
Love your videos I just started watching your videos when I was watching other HAVAC videos I am trying to get into school and get back into it I would love to hear you explain what you are doing when you are working on a unit that way I can learn also keep up the good work
It's amazing how clean you work.
im in the Nashville area and have been thinking about making a career change and have been watching your videos and highly considering hvac, thanks for these!
Thank You! These video's are easier to watch, as I'm not a fan of the "fluff sales" video's..
Hey, brother good videos you are an inspiration to some of us that are about to jump into having a small business, keep the good videos , greetings from houston tx!!!
Just Subscribed to the Channel, I'm a HVAC Mechanic in New Construction & I've been doing this for about four years. Love my Job, but I'm thinking about moving to Service soon. Hopefully I can get a lot of knowledge from your Channel.
Great job only recommendation I would add is increasing the Return Air flex duct size on the down flow first call.
I love youre vids man, I did HVAC in Las Vegas for 6 yrs before joining the Navy. Ive spent the last 15yrs doing that, i cant wait to retire so i can go back to doing this. I miss it!
You do a good job of being balanced it seems to me. Good job! I am a tech also. I was a little surprised that you didn't check the new part before you cut the old one out. Maybe the old one was doing nothing anyway so it didn't matter. I have figured out to compare before I disable the existing one because sometimes it's the wrong new part and t he old one is still working part of the time. I'm sure you can figure out how I learned that 😌
Awesome work brother. Those darn start assist on the carrier can cause the breaker trip, work fine for days then act up. New start kit would kick it 👍. Enjoy watching your videos and work ethic, keep on keepin on😎
Love the videos. Nice content, I finished my associate in hvac and looking forward for work. I'm currently working for a hotel whi h I already work doing chill water heat pumps and walk in coolers and freezers. Looking forward to residential though
very nice videos this little pump vacuum it’s a blast 🔥for small unit a fan from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 living in MD!!👍
Thank you. Great content! I’m now in the field. And I watch your videos religiously. I hope to get to your level at some point.
You could just bypass the board with a 2 pole contactor for the blower and wire up low voltage with common and green. Wire up Low voltage with reversing valve directly from tstat to condenser board and cooling.
I do supermarket refrigeration now, but I started in residential/commercial. This guy is a pro. Awesome tools, by the way. I was most impressed by the vacuum pump. I know this video is over a year old, so I'm a little late to the party but great video!
Great vid man, some of us younger guys need good videos like this to pass down to the dwindling guys and gals choosing the trades as a great career path.
Nice video man. I just subscribed. I'm newly hired HVAC and doing own service calls and now I am out usually till 7pm or later Mon-Sat. I liked how you bypassed the bad control board to keep the customer cool. I wish I had done that but haven't the experience. I will be trying to do that next time. They put us pups on the road going solo to houses FAST! I think it's too soon but I can't argue with the boss. They pay me well and I don't rock the boat. So thanks for the content, keep it up bro!
Your company may not want you to do that... slow down
Keep up the good work brother. You got a new subscriber. I recently landed a job with the state, however I continue to run my grandfather's 2 man HVAC company on the side. Me and him lol I love a man who is very honest with his customers and that's what keeps honest folks like us in business
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I just finished up my second week in school. so far a few things are clicking so happy about that. starting Monday I get to learn brazing so finally some hands on! thank you for the content, I’m definitely subscribing and going to look at more of your video!
The school I go to is called quality HVAC and refrigeration here in Las Vegas, NV!
This stuff is fun man. Wait till you get in the field
@@jeremypierre1420 thanks but I’ve been in the field since feb 28 of 21’ . I love it so far, but I think I’m going into the cyber security field.
Awesome day of work keep the videos coming 👍🏾
You got customers watching these videos and when I show up to a call they think they know my job lmao .
it's not that hard, get of you high horse.
@@jonak4530 really try working outside when its 90 degrees plus on black and white roofs all day fixing a/c units.
Try being outside when its below zero for weeks on a roof with wind and cant feel your toes or fingers.
Try lifting a compressor up 25-30 feet along side a building.
Yeah not hard
@@jonak4530 you obviously have no idea what your talking about
@@jonak4530 then why don't they do it themselves genius
Never watched this kind of content before very impressive thx
well done body personal I like your equipment set up especially gages and vacuum I been in the field good amount of years and I love what we do a different days its a new adventure lest keep doing more of these videos maybe we can learn something new
Any call is a good call right now. Starving in Mississippi. Cool channel
This guy makes me look bad at my job.
Kudos to his skills!
you are a very impressive person you have a lot of knowledge I follow you to learn from your videos friend I live here in Nashville
Try to get an hvac position at a hospital or school district, it don’t pay as much but u get to have a life. U can always do a few side jobs to supplement.
This just gave me a better insight of what my boyfriend has to experience daily. And why he works so much. Thank you
Your videos Inspire me to become and hvac tech 🤝 keep up the good work and upload more videos
Love that vacuum pump
You have a lot of tools, just a maintenance tech when I did it before jumping back to technology. Loved the job. Amazing how it changes and yet still the same.
Bro your tool collection was too good great work bro keep it up
Id be interested in a quick truck tour video. Considering a set up like yours. Great videos 👍
Small world started watching your videos because I’m starting school in couple months and I live just south of Nashville! Great videos👍
If you haven't already heard of it, the HVAC School Podcast is pretty dope for supplementing your schooling
Ok awesome thanks! I’ll check it out.
Keep it going brother love your videos !
You do clean work sir!
I watch everyones channel. Yours has the best production.
Ak Hvac had good stuff too. But no more videos
MAN O MAN you kill those Trane evap coils! 👌
Man that cart and aluminum nitrogen tank is brilliant. I waste alot of time and energy going back and forth hauling all the equipment needed to do a job.
Man you work on some clean units. Every unit I’ve had to work on so far is from 97 and has spider webs everywhere 🥲
Doing HVAC in the Air Force just graduated my tech school! Interesting to see what I'll be doing watching your vlogs.
Screechez that’s a cool gig man!! I just got out of the army after 10 years. I was infantry, so not many hard skills to be gained.
If you ets in the next few years make sure to check out the UA VIP program. It’s mostly an army thing, but they train all branches. Your last 4 months of active duty they train you on pipe fitting, sprinkler fittings, or in your case you could go HVAC, then they guarantee job in any city of your choice when you get out. You can make anywhere between 32 to 55 an hour depending where you go. Way better than Private pay!!
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Ran into a few bad coils on those water source Trane. Clean work.
I miss working on water source heat pumps. Got a lot of experience with them while working in southern florida. Now I work in WI so we don't see too many heat pumps anymore
That navac pump is awesome
This mans out here replacing R22 Evap coils in Wshps in 2020, much respect lol. We dont even service r22 units at my company anymore.
New to the channel but you got my sub. I may or may not watch a little too much HVAC videos on RUclips for my own good..lol
Excellent Brother!!!! Strength and Honor. Carpe Diem.
I start Residential HVAC school In 2 week, your channel helps beyond belief, thanks a lot man.
Well let me be the first to tell you that you will learn more in the first month on the job than you will the whole time you are at school lol
@@ryanlockhart2255 well damn lol I’m learning alot right now.
Great video brother!
tough question . I run my own much like you do and ask myself the same almost everyday . you have the gas and go customers . just fix it make it blow cold and get out and you have the total system customers who want everything that's anything . for me they get priority bc. of quality and the others can get put on the list haha . great stuff as always
how long have you been doing HVAC? How long have you been a one man band? What are the pros and cons?
I don’t have a saved item in my invoicing program for tree removal but maybe I should add one...🤔
It’s complementary…😁
It beats being locked out with no keys and having to come back!
@@randymack1782 huh?...
as an appliance service tech, it is really joyful to watch other tradesman doing a good work.
but one recomendation to you, get some knee caps, those will save your knee for the long run, when I first started in my trade my journeyman told me that knee caps is so much more important than even a good drill, after 5 years to be on the road, I agree with him and now I never work without one, it is so much more comfortable to have it on.
Nice jobs and nice equipment .
these videos are great zac
Really enjoy your videos. I previously worked for a large american standard dealer. We were short handed and management didnt care. It wasn't un common to run 10-14 service calls a day during the summer days. Ridiculous. Left there after 10yrs and work industrial with a 4 on 4 off schedule now. Me and my bro are about to start our own business to focus on with our off days and transition to it full time once everything is in place. Your videos have really been an inspiration! Thank you!
Any updates?
@@adamcraig1568 grinded it out for a yr doing both, built the business to where it was possible for us both to go full time on the business as of three weeks ago! Have sold 13 changeouts the past two weeks along with a good amount of service calls we’ve handled. Excited to see what the summer has in store for us!
@@travisbatey1551 💰 💴 that’s great!
@@travisbatey1551 bro what advice can you give to a senior coming out of highschool wanting to go into HVAC
That was definitely more than one day. Look how the sky changes lol. I like the true blue vac kit and then gauges.
My guys still using R-22!!! I hear ya!!
Great video dude.
I don't have any interest in this line of work whatsoever, but your videos are pretty cool bro... You make them interesting and Educational..Keep up the good work Bud..👍
Muy buenas herramientas, muy bueno el canal, Saludos
A1-Mechanical Lansing, MI 8-10 calls is a regular day mix of no cool/no heat and tune ups. 10+ And we’re too busy to breathe
Nice job and video
Great title !
Very professional i wish im your apprentice.
Thank you for sharing.. watching from Qatar
You made alot money and you worked hard.. godbless u
Good shit bro HVAC for LIFE
Thanks for posting another “day in the life” video. It’s always a pleasure to see your techniques. I have the SMAN wireless and the wireless probe kit. Do you find you usually just use the wireless probe kit with Measure Quik for checking charge, etc? The wireless probe kit is certainly less bulky.
Yes I typically use the wireless set up most of the time. I very rarely use the SMAN.