New Tenants Said Their AC Won’t Blow Cold!

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @bigblue3568
    @bigblue3568 5 месяцев назад +83

    IF disgruntled previous tenant did do this then the next trade to visit will probably be a plumber...

    • @cbar30
      @cbar30 5 месяцев назад +11

      So true! I had a tenant that flushed dish towels down both toilets before moving out. Cost them a $300 plumber bill (took it out of their deposit).

    • @notaquitter
      @notaquitter 5 месяцев назад +3

      now that could be a shitty mess

    • @deddie4645
      @deddie4645 5 месяцев назад +4

      Well, that's a lot better than somebody foaming the sewer line.... With big gap filler foam

    • @mastectechnologies8536
      @mastectechnologies8536 5 месяцев назад +6

      Be lucky someone didn't steal the outside unit

    • @keithv708
      @keithv708 5 месяцев назад +3

      Yes

  • @stevencossaboon3237
    @stevencossaboon3237 5 месяцев назад +23

    Nice work Curtis. I have run into that situation several times throughout the years. I chalked it up to disgruntled tenants.

  • @edwardmissouri2216
    @edwardmissouri2216 2 месяца назад +3

    Nice job. That heavy wire is a pain to work with, and so are those knockouts. Thank goodness for washers. They won't be taking away a disconnect with that nice new box! I can't imagine that kids would mess with something like a disconnect. Probably was some jerky tenants. As a rule, the tenant is behind in their rent, and they get evicted. Then they want to take it out on the owner, even though it's their fault. My brother in law had a tenant that put nuts and bolts in the garbage disposal, and he was trying to help them out when they were having a tough time. So much for gratitude. Some people are such A-holes

  • @BW-nv9hn
    @BW-nv9hn 5 месяцев назад +21

    Use a 1/8 drill bit and drill out the connection points for the size you want. This will give you a clean brake every time. Thanks for making great content!

    • @jumpinjojo
      @jumpinjojo 5 месяцев назад +7

      *Break

    • @jameswoltal2030
      @jameswoltal2030 5 месяцев назад +4

      I always found that a step bit did a good job for this.

    • @engineclinic
      @engineclinic 5 месяцев назад +1

      I just use a greenlee knock out set.

  • @LeoLoder
    @LeoLoder 5 месяцев назад +10

    I went on a service call for a movie theater located at a mall yrs ago. There most have been over 75 RTU on the Mall's roof. I find my unit ( the theater had 8 units) I looked and the friggin condenser motor was gone, just the MTR the blade and mounting brackets were still there instead the condenser compartment. I got a good chuckle out of that one.

    • @Bigjohn2121
      @Bigjohn2121 8 дней назад

      Was probably on a neighboring companies unit😂

  • @pepawspostings9231
    @pepawspostings9231 5 месяцев назад +20

    Great job!
    We had 3 pull out disconnects stolen from one of our offices. Just pure mischief. No other real use for them.

    • @topher8634
      @topher8634 5 месяцев назад

      Kids probably. There was a group of young boys in my GF's neighborhood doing this and huffing the Freon.

    • @CA-lk6fd
      @CA-lk6fd 5 месяцев назад +1

      A couple of my friends used to huff Freon back in high school, it made their voices really deep for a few seconds. They tried to get me to try it, I refused. I can’t imagine how dangerous that was.

    • @JosephSwolin
      @JosephSwolin 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@CA-lk6fdIt literally kills some of your braincells so

    • @emeliojuarez3617
      @emeliojuarez3617 5 месяцев назад +2

      Better to have disconnect missing then condenser.

    • @cardsfan1590
      @cardsfan1590 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@CA-lk6fd that's why I never understood the locking caps on the service ports,if your dumb enough to huff refrigerant that's just natural selection at work to me

  • @HANDYMANDAN51
    @HANDYMANDAN51 5 месяцев назад +5

    great vid. I feel your pain with the tough knockouts. thank goodness for doughnuts

  • @rolytech212
    @rolytech212 5 месяцев назад +34

    Curtis, I think you spent more time changing that disconnect than changing a fan motor 😂

    • @harryschrysan3183
      @harryschrysan3183 5 месяцев назад +2

      For real 😂 🤣

    • @nuc2726
      @nuc2726 5 месяцев назад +1

      Fan motors are easy. Everything is either unplugging wire terminals or turning some nuts on some threaded screws built into the fan. With disconnects, it's demo work and fitting work, which is always the longest part of installs, from new systems down to the electrical whip...

    • @jeffreys1554
      @jeffreys1554 4 месяца назад

      ​@@nuc2726 you are faded lol

    • @nuc2726
      @nuc2726 4 месяца назад

      @@jeffreys1554 You must be a poor technician if you can't whip a fan motor in and out in 30 minutes.

    • @jeffreys1554
      @jeffreys1554 4 месяца назад

      @@nuc2726 I can do a disconnect box in 10 minutes

  • @Ted_E_Bear
    @Ted_E_Bear 5 месяцев назад +6

    You should use a holesaw to drill out the bottom of the disconnect ! Makes it so easy !

  • @richardharmon874
    @richardharmon874 5 месяцев назад +14

    That knock out problem happens to me almost every disconnect that style, know i try to save the washers from the whipps i buy.i always end up knocking out the whole hole instead of the 1/2 in electric. Good video

    • @jthonn
      @jthonn 5 месяцев назад +1

      That is a pain.

    • @jthonn
      @jthonn 5 месяцев назад

      @@hinspect Sounds like an idea, he had a video a while back using a step bit.

    • @AnUnapologeticApologist
      @AnUnapologeticApologist 5 месяцев назад

      @@jthonn Just use dikes. Knock it out a little with a flat head then clip the welds with your dikes trust me it works every time

    • @scyarch1136
      @scyarch1136 3 месяца назад

      I've had it happen on big expensive electrical panels and little boxes too. Enough that I've taken to eyeballing how punched or not the knockouts are and keeping a cordless dremel style tool and metal cut discs and scoring the breaks so I don't need to get the knockout reducers. Some mfrs just have really bad punches

  • @TomLawson05
    @TomLawson05 5 месяцев назад +5

    Great job Curtis thanks for the video

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад

      You bet

  • @HVACingMyWay
    @HVACingMyWay 5 месяцев назад +13

    I have a container full of different style pullouts for disconnects just for that reason. Not a common thing but they have came in handy.

    • @MariosACandRefrigeration
      @MariosACandRefrigeration 5 месяцев назад

      he has so much to learn.that is a lot of work,for the same pay.

    • @Mo4Honesty
      @Mo4Honesty 5 месяцев назад

      Where do you get them? Salvage from replacements or can you buy them separate in bulk?

    • @MariosACandRefrigeration
      @MariosACandRefrigeration 5 месяцев назад

      @@Mo4Honesty You buy different ones,and pull the guts out,90% of the time ,you just change the guts.

    • @drozcompany4132
      @drozcompany4132 5 месяцев назад

      @@Mo4Honesty Where do you think the missing disconnects go? haha just kidding

    • @Mo4Honesty
      @Mo4Honesty 5 месяцев назад

      @@drozcompany4132 that may not be far from the reality 😱

  • @blahblahblah4632
    @blahblahblah4632 5 месяцев назад +7

    The knock out struggle is real!

    • @JV-pu8kx
      @JV-pu8kx 5 месяцев назад +1

      Too many size options for one hole.

  • @jedgeled759
    @jedgeled759 5 месяцев назад +9

    i like how the newer boxes,the knockouts never seperate like they`re supposed to,,,,it always knocks out the whole section🙄

    • @LeoLoder
      @LeoLoder 5 месяцев назад +1

      Might as well use a uni bit a save the aggravation...

    • @cardsfan1590
      @cardsfan1590 5 месяцев назад +1

      Glad I'm not the only one,those can definitely be a pain sometimes

    • @AnUnapologeticApologist
      @AnUnapologeticApologist 5 месяцев назад

      Use a flat head screwdriver to lift the knockout slightly then clip the welds with dikes. It works perfectly and way faster than using a step bit

    • @Z-Ack
      @Z-Ack 5 месяцев назад

      Yea i just get a pack of reducers and go ahead and knock out the big ones because they’re always easier to get out and reducers makes it easier to run the wire in. Customer pays for the reducers but saves from labor.. win win in my opinion..

    • @jimdavis6833
      @jimdavis6833 5 месяцев назад

      Welcome to the world where everything is made in China.

  • @johnj4860
    @johnj4860 5 месяцев назад +4

    In the UK we have isolator switches with lockable handles. Turn it off and use a padlock to prevent others turning it back on because you have the key. No fiddly disconnect parts to lose.

    • @ranger178
      @ranger178 2 месяца назад

      you can put a lock on the disconnect box but then people would lose the key the new one he put in was a breaker not a removable disconnect like the old one

  • @UrenaDomingo
    @UrenaDomingo 5 месяцев назад +7

    On my experience, working in apartment complex, that's the norm with disgruntled Tennant. They fill they have to damage something to stick it to the man...

    • @dfirth224
      @dfirth224 5 месяцев назад +2

      Years ago I worked as apartment maint. man. One tenant who got evicted left a mattress and box spring behind. A few hours after they moved out the smoke alarm in the apartment went off. I went in and the place was full of smoke. They had set a smoldering fire between the mattress and box spring. If the smoke alarm hadn't gone off the whole place would have been on fire.

    • @jimwhite9483
      @jimwhite9483 5 месяцев назад

      What exactly is it that they fill?

  • @butlerstouchHVAC
    @butlerstouchHVAC 5 месяцев назад +3

    great work curtis

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @Dustin-zk8nb
    @Dustin-zk8nb 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for the vid!

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад

      You bet!

  • @jme36053
    @jme36053 5 месяцев назад +7

    Add neighborhood kids to the mix. Going around in the wee hours pulling those pesky disconnects. Just to add to their collection.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 5 месяцев назад +1

      Or the former tenant was a Karen that annoyed the nieghborhood kids, one to many times!

  • @chrisnapier5626
    @chrisnapier5626 5 месяцев назад +2

    Nice work,Curtis!

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад

      Thanks!

  • @alandahlstrom7213
    @alandahlstrom7213 3 месяца назад

    I cannot tell you how many times I have found this same scenario. I wish they sold just the pull out shorting blocks, because i have had to replace almost brand new disconnects just because of the missing pull out.

  • @jpol3808
    @jpol3808 5 месяцев назад

    I love this channel it shows you how to do stuff and the same way every DIY'r would do it# it's great!

  • @emeliojuarez3617
    @emeliojuarez3617 5 месяцев назад +2

    I did a unit before for a breakup. He took shower head and tub spout. Then they said the A/C has not worked since he left, I was like I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but no pull out was missing. I feel your pain.

    • @jimwhite9483
      @jimwhite9483 5 месяцев назад

      If it wasn't the "pullout" missing, what was it?

  • @chuckq54
    @chuckq54 5 месяцев назад +9

    You can always keep the disconnect from a few old boxes for emergencies but that’s not going to make you any money 🤷‍♂️🤣

    • @deddie4645
      @deddie4645 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, why didn't you just go pull a old disconnect out of the back of the service truck....

    • @cryptogeek3559
      @cryptogeek3559 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@deddie4645 I think he did the right thing to install a breaker. just replacing the disconnect might end up with a return visit beacause someone mischievous might steal it again.

  • @RXSVN_2
    @RXSVN_2 5 месяцев назад +2

    9:57 Yeah, that's never good.
    The Washer that you cut was a Very smart solution to the problem though.

  • @dashcamandy2242
    @dashcamandy2242 5 месяцев назад +3

    2:16 - As Eric O. from South Main Auto would say, "There's your problem, lady!"
    Having "Edge of Seventeen" stuck in your head isn't that bad. There are at least a dozen songs I can think of that would drive me absolutely nuts if they were stuck in my head. Donovan's "First There is a Mountain," Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis," Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5," Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians' "I Do," just to name a few.
    I definitely felt your pain on those multi-size knockouts. I don't trust my luck, so I always buy a reducing adapter ahead of time. 😉

  • @GhostSniper67
    @GhostSniper67 3 месяца назад +2

    I must admit, when I was younger and my neighbor was a complete jerk, I would frequently flip their breaker on their AC unit.. I have since grown up...😂😂

  • @a.j.5822
    @a.j.5822 5 месяцев назад +2

    There isn't any thing wrong with Fleetwood Mac, Good job and thanks for the video.

  • @DrHarryT
    @DrHarryT 3 месяца назад

    There is a possibility that the previous tenants pulled the disconnect to prevent others in the house from using the AC and simply forgot to put it back when they moved out. Here in California I have never seen a breaker AC disconnect, it has always been fuses. Is a breaker up to code???

  • @DavidAndresen-j9z
    @DavidAndresen-j9z 5 месяцев назад

    I've had to do that so many times. I keep the washers that cone with the whips just in case the knockout comes all the way out like it did there.

  • @OLDADAMS
    @OLDADAMS 2 месяца назад

    My Opinion; Best way to get rid of problem tenants is to shut off the water, shut off the electrical and perhaps the heat and A/C.

  • @denverbraughler3948
    @denverbraughler3948 4 месяца назад

    You are *always* supposed to use knockout bushings inside and outside the box.
    You may never rely on the remaining knockout rings for a connection.
    But if you didn’t have the part, you could have just swapped out the internals from the new box and kept the old box which was obviously rated for at least 30A and in good physical condition.

  • @JesseDoesHVAC
    @JesseDoesHVAC 5 месяцев назад +2

    Should invest In a step bit or “Christmas tree” bit in your drill for those disconnect knock outs, way quicker

  • @user-ty2uz4gb7v
    @user-ty2uz4gb7v 5 месяцев назад +4

    So you can't just buy a spare disconnect pull out, you have to replace the whole box?

    • @softwarephil1709
      @softwarephil1709 5 месяцев назад +2

      Disconnect boxes are cheap. Travel time to find the right plug is very expensive.

    • @sparky5543
      @sparky5543 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@softwarephil1709 Cheap? Not a disconnect box with a breaker!

    • @softwarephil1709
      @softwarephil1709 5 месяцев назад +2

      You can buy a disconnect box with pull plug from Home Depot for $18. That’s far cheaper than the travel time to find a matching pull plug replacement.

    • @user-ty2uz4gb7v
      @user-ty2uz4gb7v 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@softwarephil1709good to know 🫡

    • @sparky5543
      @sparky5543 5 месяцев назад

      @@softwarephil1709 So, you are saying the exact same thing I said, but in different words.. Yep :) Maybe you missed the "with a breaker" part. I didn't say anything about finding a matching pull plug.

  • @williamsmith6
    @williamsmith6 5 месяцев назад +2

    Have people put a small padlock on disconnect box

  • @ChrisCreech-uf2ty
    @ChrisCreech-uf2ty 5 месяцев назад +2

    Yes it was my aunt rented out a house when the. People move out they took everything the light bulbs, etc she was mad

  • @jiminsav
    @jiminsav 5 месяцев назад +2

    I bet if you had extended that disconnect search, you would have found it yeeted across the way behind the trailer.

  • @Boga217
    @Boga217 5 месяцев назад

    If your wires are to short, code allows wire nuts in the box..put you a little extension and good to go. Also the knockout, I lift with screw driver and use some good nippers.

  • @robalexander7348
    @robalexander7348 5 месяцев назад +2

    Well done Curtis, another good job. May be young kids ? 🤔 Au

  • @Fluorescentlighting123
    @Fluorescentlighting123 5 месяцев назад +3

    Love your vids Day 2!!!!

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks

  • @OnusBones
    @OnusBones 5 месяцев назад +7

    Maybe some local feral primates stole it just to cause trouble, or it might have been someone who had a beef with the prior tenants; who knows?
    Fleetwood Mac is definitely one of the better earworms to have. I've got another one for you, a particularly fitting one: Georgia Rhythm, by Atlanta Rhythm Section. Play that one cranked a few times, and you'll have a new earworm.

    • @jthonn
      @jthonn 5 месяцев назад +1

      Have to watch the copywrite, it could defund the video.

    • @amiatroll6347
      @amiatroll6347 5 месяцев назад

      feral primates 🤣

  • @cjhardknocks7040
    @cjhardknocks7040 5 месяцев назад

    When I was on call I use to hope I'd get calls like those!

  • @MrTurbo64
    @MrTurbo64 5 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe neighbor borrowed it.. good to have them conduit reducing washers

  • @monteglover4133
    @monteglover4133 5 месяцев назад +2

    In a condo complex(Chicago burbs) there were apparently 20 pullouts were stolen.

  • @resistor--1816
    @resistor--1816 5 месяцев назад +23

    Squirrels. They are building a community with electric.🤣

    • @jthonn
      @jthonn 5 месяцев назад +2

      Beavers, lol

  • @Samlol23_drrich
    @Samlol23_drrich 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ive got two that look like breakers out there (even though theyre not) . Nothing to steal

    • @jimwhite9483
      @jimwhite9483 5 месяцев назад

      What is a theyre?

    • @Samlol23_drrich
      @Samlol23_drrich 5 месяцев назад

      @@jimwhite9483 it's a contraction without an apostrophe. Good old voice typing.
      They are combined = they're. Better?? Or bet'ter

  • @lazyjack8081
    @lazyjack8081 5 месяцев назад +12

    I had a call years ago at a lawyers home. The company i was with had installed a change out 2 days earlier. He informed how low life and incopmptent we were and preparing paper work to demand a refund. So after I informed him an unkown criminal had vandalized his disconnect and smashed it in the drive way. And he refused new electrical with change out. And since disconnect authority was a grey area he should call his electrician. And i got in my truck and drove away.

  • @GhostSniper67
    @GhostSniper67 3 месяца назад

    11:11 @@RainmanRaysRepairs has a t-shirt that says "Everything is a hammer"
    I think you should get one...😂

  • @eljokerjce
    @eljokerjce 3 дня назад

    Wanting to get into service, shouldn’t you always lockout tag the breaker box? What if some goes in the house and messes with it while you’re working on the disconnect.

  • @jayc4283
    @jayc4283 5 месяцев назад

    Love these types of channels, THANKS !! curious, in these situations, and maybe I missed it in video, do you call landlord and say, I can put an entire new component in now, or I can order you a replacement pull out, or they can look around for it and see if they find it?

  • @nelsonflores67
    @nelsonflores67 5 месяцев назад +2

    Hows the Milwaukee vacuum pump working out after all this months? You still like it?

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад +1

      Love it

  • @Z-Ack
    @Z-Ack 5 месяцев назад +1

    Seems like youd call the owner and ask if they took the disconnect for some reason before youd go through installing a new one.. but i guess easy money if you just put one on in.. way of the game..

  • @jimwhite9483
    @jimwhite9483 5 месяцев назад

    Stay safe, Curtis. Do you have a link for the shears you used to modify the reducing washer?

  • @jamalbenthall151
    @jamalbenthall151 2 месяца назад

    I enjoyed the video, so I liked and subscribed. Can you do a heat pump system . Im a beginner.

  • @alglen9208
    @alglen9208 5 месяцев назад +3

    I've been listening to Fleetwood Mac a lot lately!

    • @dashcamandy2242
      @dashcamandy2242 5 месяцев назад

      I'm partial to the "Rumors" album, myself. Even have it on 8-track. 🤣
      If you're interested in cover versions, an album titled "Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumors" is a pretty good listen. Irish pop group The Corrs does an amazing version of "Dreams."

  • @gregs9555
    @gregs9555 5 месяцев назад +1

    I recently heard a trap is now required on all new electrical sealtights😂

  • @edwardmmanns7454
    @edwardmmanns7454 5 месяцев назад

    Knockouts... I would try using an old socket underneath before knocking out the smaller hole.

  • @michaelrauff734
    @michaelrauff734 5 месяцев назад

    Was it a foreclosure? Thoes bank contractors that (winterise foreclosure properties at least up in New York ) remove yankout disconnects, and then the realtor throws them out when cleaning out the property.

  • @billyglenn4994
    @billyglenn4994 5 месяцев назад +2

    Could have been sabotage, but also one of the neighbors may have lost their pullout and went over and took that one

  • @mcdonamw
    @mcdonamw 2 месяца назад

    Pardon the stupid question. The pullouts aren't standard? Couldn't just replace it vs the whole box?

  • @youtube247stories
    @youtube247stories 5 месяцев назад +5

    Wow not to tought put in a new bar. You carried this project to extreme I think.

    • @Ronaldo-nj9pi
      @Ronaldo-nj9pi 5 месяцев назад +1

      I imagine that it may have taken him longer to go get one in labor, than to replace the panel with one on the truck. Maybe he also charges more per hour on the weekend, maybe his parts place was closed on the weekend. I am sure there could be many reasons.

    • @powerstorke03
      @powerstorke03 5 месяцев назад +1

      The bar could be a different style also

    • @ronniebuchanan6575
      @ronniebuchanan6575 5 месяцев назад +2

      Those bars don't always interchange. Besides I have never tried to buy just the bar. The entire disconnect is 17.00. If he can't buy the bar itself and that one would work. That would make the new disconnect useless. He would have to charge for the complete disconnect anyway.

  • @robertjohnson4401
    @robertjohnson4401 5 месяцев назад +1

    Could have been a neighbor that pulled the disconnect.

  • @maintenanceman1015
    @maintenanceman1015 5 месяцев назад +7

    Wonder why you didn't buy just a cheap disconnect. Put the pull in the old box and charging for a box

    • @kdawson020279
      @kdawson020279 5 месяцев назад

      It was a Saturday morning. He tried just a pull but his wasn't compatible.

  • @CharlesM-hq6cv
    @CharlesM-hq6cv 5 месяцев назад

    I think I would spray some type of bug juice all around them outside boxes before attempting to work/remove on it first.. maybe before I even open the lid, or maybe have some gloves on:-).. just saying love your work, sort of how things go for me never as simple as I would like at times, especially when you follow up on a past bubba install/fix…

  • @jeffreywhitlatch1409
    @jeffreywhitlatch1409 5 месяцев назад +2

    Or somebody needed it to fix one. I keep a few used ones on hand when I can. OMG those crappy knockouts.

  • @mauricionardin1863
    @mauricionardin1863 5 месяцев назад +1

    Boa troca de chave para disjuntor é mais fácil de ligar e religar dá mais segurança para o ar central. Um bom dia 🔨🛠️🏠☀️🇧🇷❄️

  • @bobmorse225
    @bobmorse225 5 месяцев назад +1

    had teenagers doing this at my bosses park..started trying some tstat wire on them and it stopped

    • @jimwhite9483
      @jimwhite9483 5 месяцев назад

      How was trying thermostat wire effective?

  • @btwbrand
    @btwbrand 5 месяцев назад

    I'm 4 minutes into the video and the first thing my mind is doing is asking if someone has swapped a ground and a power wire going into this A/C unit to see if I will damage it by plugging a disconnect pull out into the system.

  • @billy5032
    @billy5032 5 месяцев назад +2

    The neighb stole the pullout

  • @user-ty2uz4gb7v
    @user-ty2uz4gb7v 5 месяцев назад +1

    Did you install a lock 🙂

  • @hinspect
    @hinspect 5 месяцев назад +1

    Great job on the short wires, *_that_* looked like a pain. The original "electrician" did a shitty job! 😉

  • @MrKeithsplace
    @MrKeithsplace 5 месяцев назад

    If it was same brand disco, why not just stick disconnect in from new one, rather changing the whole thing? But I’m guessing you checked that off camera.

  • @johnnysaffel797
    @johnnysaffel797 5 месяцев назад +2

    Was that a 22 guge wire feeding the condensor. It looked like yellow romex

  • @ranger178
    @ranger178 2 месяца назад

    I had some annoying kids next door to me always worried they would do something like that. guess you can't just get new pullouts if someone takes it.

  • @johnvanwinkle4351
    @johnvanwinkle4351 3 месяца назад

    I would have checked the disconnect first to verify power.

  • @billmilosz
    @billmilosz 5 месяцев назад +1

    Might have been the previous tenant, but it could have been ANYONE. That disconnect box is wide open and there are teens around who think this kind of vandalism is fun. (I remember being almost that silly when I was 15...)

  • @bailles
    @bailles 5 месяцев назад +2

    Tenant didn’t get all deposit back. I doubt landlord would call if he knew where it was. Old tenants were spiteful and was like I’ll make you pay the 1k somehow.

  • @jenko701
    @jenko701 5 месяцев назад +1

    I had a buddy that did maintenance in a trailer park and a disgruntled tenant filled the duct work with raw chicken, in the summer. All the duct work had to be replaced to the the smell out .

    • @drozcompany4132
      @drozcompany4132 5 месяцев назад +1

      Heard of a guy once filled his ex-wife's curtain rods with fish when she got the house.

  • @unabridgeddick6645
    @unabridgeddick6645 5 месяцев назад +4

    That trailer park tribal warfare

  • @emeliojuarez3617
    @emeliojuarez3617 5 месяцев назад +2

    That's very common for schools, i padlock them closed.

  • @ssshady08
    @ssshady08 5 месяцев назад

    You couldn't just have added a new pull out/fuse on it? Why replace the whole box? It had power. Wouldn't it have saved the customer some money?

  • @davefuelling7955
    @davefuelling7955 5 месяцев назад +6

    I hate knockouts, seeing a professional having the same problems that I have trying to get the right size knockout is actually relieving knowing that it's not me.

    • @denverbraughler3948
      @denverbraughler3948 4 месяца назад

      Yes, it is you. You aren’t following the NEC. You are being dangerous. Use two knockout bushings like you’re supposed to.

  • @mikemmikem2758
    @mikemmikem2758 3 месяца назад

    Unless I missed it I don't think you tightened the lock washer.

  • @steveprice-n9b
    @steveprice-n9b 2 месяца назад

    this is exactly why rent is so high now, people destroy homes they rent, every single home I ever rented when I was younger always had several major repairs due to people doing damage while living there.

  • @pilotboba
    @pilotboba 5 месяцев назад +8

    Those disconnects have a place to put a padlock on them for a reason. :)

    • @elBusDriverKC
      @elBusDriverKC 5 месяцев назад +7

      I think that’s for locking out when power is off. Usually it’s dangerous to lock something on in the event of emergency.

  • @jthonn
    @jthonn 5 месяцев назад +4

    Sabotage is possible, but it was probably something stupid. May have been pulled by the landlord or maintenance man, and put in a stupid place. May have fallen on the ground and the grass cutters got it, or kids, Lord knows. A plain shame though. Nice job changing it, you just barely had enough wire.

  • @repetemyname842
    @repetemyname842 5 месяцев назад +2

    Damn are those straps hideous why not just pour a little pad there or buy a pad and set the unit on that? If one trailer gets pulled out the next is just getting parked in the same place, wouldnt affect the unit any. People do some weird stuff.

  • @CraZyNOTRT
    @CraZyNOTRT 5 месяцев назад +2

    What the amp rating of that unit? Being fed by 12 guage wire.

    • @HVACGUY
      @HVACGUY  5 месяцев назад +1

      #10

    • @CraZyNOTRT
      @CraZyNOTRT 5 месяцев назад +2

      @HVACGUY that looked like yellow romex, which is 12 Guage. Orange romex is 10 Guage. The wire from the a/c unit to the disconnect looks like 10 Guage

  • @steveurbach3093
    @steveurbach3093 5 месяцев назад +3

    Carry a couple of Reducer washers just for this

    • @jthonn
      @jthonn 5 месяцев назад

      good idea

  • @jsmiles4060
    @jsmiles4060 5 месяцев назад +3

    why cant they make the pop outs easier :( always givin issues

    • @JV-pu8kx
      @JV-pu8kx 5 месяцев назад +1

      Size options.

  • @kcMan7938
    @kcMan7938 5 месяцев назад

    That screwdriver seems very cumbersome to use ! Lol

  • @DrJuan-ev8lu
    @DrJuan-ev8lu 4 месяца назад

    Maybe the landlord pulled the disconnect to get non-paying Tennent's to move out. Might have been several months till summer heat set in and disconnect was lost in the mean time.

  • @richardyates1033
    @richardyates1033 5 месяцев назад +1

    I think a neighbor had a problem with theirs, knew this place was vacant, and took the pull-out.

  • @jimdavis6833
    @jimdavis6833 5 месяцев назад

    My disconnect is padlocked. I'll remove it if I have called for an A/C repaiman.

  • @bgreenwood9730
    @bgreenwood9730 5 месяцев назад +2

    I bet that bastard tossed the pull out on the roof of the trailer 🤔

  • @unclechaz8426
    @unclechaz8426 5 месяцев назад +1

    The wires at the disconnect must be very very tight or the electricity will leak out.😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

  • @w.knudsen5570
    @w.knudsen5570 5 месяцев назад +6

    Nothing wrong with Fleetwood Mac, good group.

  • @ronniebuchanan6575
    @ronniebuchanan6575 5 месяцев назад

    I hate those knock outs. If you knock the 1/2" from the outside of box in that works best. If you look close enough it is designed that way but still is not fool proof. Like everything else they get made thinner and thinner.

  • @fldave612
    @fldave612 5 месяцев назад

    I hate those concentric knock outs, you have to hit them perfectly or you end of with a hole that's too big for your fitting.

  • @h2oman983
    @h2oman983 4 месяца назад

    Ive stopped trying to figure out people & the games they play.
    As my wife says: "Normal is just a setting on your Washing Machine".