Well said. Thanks brother 🤙

Nightmare oversized like this

What i keep telling these educated idiots where I work not a hammer big enough to make them listen

Do you have any experience with Insulated Concrete Form Homes ? I have heard you need to downsize the AC by 1/3rd as their so Insulated that a normal size AC will short cycle and not dry out the home correctly ... Have you heard of this ?

I learned this accidentally. I thought in my son’s bedroom bigger the better, cool off quickly. Well the humidity averaged up to 64% in his room . Not good . Finally after research i found out they need proper btu level for the room size to work properly. Till i can replace with lower btu i ended up having to force the fan to stay on slowest speed and open his door. After that his room averages around 55% humidity. For 700square foot i would much rather use ductless mini splits. My ducted central ac died on me and I’m converting to ductless . I hate ducted central ac. So much heat gain from the open ducts into the ceiling. No amount of insulation will make up for that heat here in Florida . No constant highs and lows with ductless as you get with central ac. Plus all my rooms will have there own thermostat as my son prefers his room around 4 deg warmer the i and , wife do in ours. 4 ton in 700 square feet will result in very high humidity

The pleasure is all mine! Thanks for watching!

Thanks man. I figured it was melting fast so I’d stick around. 🤙 thanks for subscribing!

You got that right! 🤙

Heck yea it was.

Thanks!🤙

Yea I have. It does work pretty good for TXVs that are slightly out of range or starting to fail. Good product! 🤙

Yea, Rheem/Ruud didn't change that design for a loooong time. I actually like it, with the compressor compartment right in the front, easy accessible.

Yea I've tried stuff like that before. Sometimes it works.

Yea those Gree units sound pretty nice. I can safely say I've seen 0 Grees here on the eastern shore of MD.

@@JeffsHVACAdventures are you near the cheasapeak bay area anyway if you can get them I would recomend one of those for your 4 ton guy. In the 3 ton but if 3 tons is too much you can change the dip switch settings to 2 ton on the air handler. And condenser But with them you need to use nylog blue and be careful not to over torque just like a mini split. But unlike most mini splits it does have a high side pressure port so you can vacuam the high side. And take high side readings just like what you are used too. And the reason why I am not crazy about daikens. Lennox, or trane or carrier with inverter technology is because I don't like that they require things like proproitery thermostats and are way overkill for the prices. I like the gree flexes and the Mr cool universals are fine, if you follow proper procedures and ignore the manuals and let a pro install them. And tell the hvac tech to pull out the air handler blower motor and properly balance the blower wheel. Before installing any of them. With Mr cool And the other issue I have with mr. cool is telling consumers install the quick connect linesets. And if you use them you don't need to vacuam the system out before releasing the refrigerant that's false. And has caused a lot of problems. Especially with guys then having issues because they did not buy gauges and a vacuam pump. I am telling you this because a hvac tech also from Maryland posted a video on one of the mr cool mini splits. And it was having problems that's associated with not vacauming out the system and leak testing before releasing the refrigerant. I did tell him this information so he knows what to look for with the Mr cool minisplits. But in this case I think a gree flex is the better alternative. But maybe you could test a Mr cool universal doing everything the correct way with the so called quick no vac linesets and see how they hold up. But really they should in the instruction manuals for the mini splits and universal series still put in there to vacuam down the system with a gauge set and a good vacuam pump. And I think it would go a long way. And more hvac guys like yourself I think would be willing to install them. As the Mr cool universal series is very similar to the gree flex but gree unlike mr cool properly balances the blower wheel in the air handler at the factory and does not sell or market quick connect linesets and says vacuam out the system and that's how it should be.

Hell yea. Sounds like a nice set up for a garage!

The only rationale I can think of is I'm guessing that it is oversized for so Heat pump can run without the Aux heat kicking in?? This would only make sense if it were an old house with no insulation. Other possibility is that this system was made of spare parts as well.

@@JeffsHVACAdventures Works for me, it was a old lennox r22 system removed for upgrade. I live in south Texas. My garage doors face south and when i had unInsulated doors that garage was like a oven. I put Insulated doors and the ac in. I can turn it on with a wifi switch from my phone, go in the garage 10 mins later and it will already be 15 degrees lower than the outside temp. Sometimes I'll let her run and drop that temp to 60 to amaze my friends. Add a sound system and a flat screen and you're all set.

@@danr9584 Very likely.

Love them. Of course I don’t have much to compare them too because I haven’t had any other brand. I have the digital gauges and the smart probes by Testo

Yup I'm with you on that. This system definitely wasn't a part of the original design for this house. LoL

In your part of the country (Northern) 3.5 ton for 1500 SqF seems properly sized. However it's impossible to know with out a proper Load Calculation or Manual J. A rule of thumb here in MD is 1 CFM per SqF. That would put you at around a 4 ton unit. We are a little warmer climate than you though. The run time on some systems can be increased right at the thermostat by increasing the cycles per hour. However if your system is communicating or if you have a matched Lennox stat, there may be more involved with it. Either way, you might want the contractor back out to discuss your issues.

You got that right!

Right on brother. 🤙

Every part of the country is different. What we charge in Maryland might not be what they charge in NYC or South Carolina. But I’d say for just changing out the outdoor unit your looking at anywhere between $3000-5000.

I like their products. They’re just so damn expensive!

“General rule of thumb “ will get you in trouble here in the south

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Now that's funny. 👍

Not really because the compressor is still trying to put out 4 tons of AC.

@@JeffsHVACAdventures ok that makes sense

AC Units are not sized on square feet.

Not on SqF alone but it is one of the main factors and a good rule of thumb

@@shentx you are right, square feet is just one of the data points used when doing a manual J heat load calculation. There are many other data points needed to give an accurate heat load calculation. I’m just a homeowner, I’m not trying to pretend I’m a HVAC technician.

Hell yea it is!

@JeffsHVACAdventures For a house that small they only need a 1.5 ton system

Defenetely way oversized. A 2 ton maybe 3 ton max but 3 ton is pushing it. But depends on how well the house is insulated.

If it was out of R22 that is 8 lbs. That would be costly

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Yup. Had it happen several times.

Or someone uses a MERV 100 filter and thinks air will go thru it :-P

It’s in the attic. Thanks for watching!

But its the only one cooling tonight.

biger is better u get cold house in mins

@@grego10r Yeah and you also get a very humid and uncomfortable house with large temperature swings and a huge power bill with lots of wear on the equipment from the constant cycling. If you want to be able to cool your house quickly without as many downsides, look into inverter driven systems. A lot of the time, they can be oversized a bit without causing problems since they can run at partial capacity when needed.

Cool and damp equals mold promotion. A proper sized unit should run around 70-80% to dehumidify the air.

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Maybe it was a 3-4 story house and they cut it down to 1 story... :-P

Maybe they like to leave the windows open while AC running. Anti insulation I think is what the hipsters call it. lol

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🤣. Thanks? I guess.

Yea pretty clean. I’ve got a quick shot of it after it’s thawed out.

Definitely doesn't run for long! Thanks for watching!

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Too heavy of a filter, and closed registers will also cause issues and air handler not properly adjusted for proper airflow...

Right!

I hooked up gauges on every call I did in this video…. What are talking about?

Well guess what thats your friend who knows how long hes been in the industry to know and even that im sure he has to stay updat3d with what is new and not stay with old knowledge of the 1950s lol

@@DJV94022 Fix it. Quit messing around if you know what you are doing.

That's pretty close to the rule of thumb we use here in MD. Every climate is different of course. We do about 30 BTU per SqF. Some guys do 1 CFM per SqF. Gets you pretty close either way.

400 sq ft per ton

You got that right!

Your going to want have a proper load calculation done to see exactly how much cooling you need but your probably going to need something in the 3 to 4 ton range

1 ton per 500 sq ft. As someone said its just rule of thumb. Vaulted ceilings ,windows ,and insulation have impact