Y’all thought the last one was dirty!

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Y’all thought the last one was dirty!

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In this video I visit a mobile home where the air conditioner was roaring and not keeping up. #hvacguy #hvaclife #hvac #heatpump #hvactrainingvideos #airconditioner #furnace #hvactroubleshooting #hvactechnician #hvacinstall ‪@ruud‬
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@andersonfamilyadventure2495 Жыл бұрын

I saw you leaving that job today, I was in the mail truck.

@hlmmoore 8 күн бұрын

What town or city is this? I might get him to work on my 2 unites.

@retired0307 Жыл бұрын

Do you ever say "Hey, come out here. I want to show you something".

@robertcouffer7908 Жыл бұрын

Can only imagine what the indoor coil looks like ?

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

Two different locations!

@jima3129 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I bet.

@jenniferbush1724 Жыл бұрын

It looks like it was wrapped in a nice, warm blanket! Lol. Thanks for looking after the little cricket. 😊

@MrCmgl1 Жыл бұрын

That’s crazy. It’s amazing how people don’t take care of their equipment. I had a service call the other day, that the 4” thick air filter hadn’t been changed in over 5 years. On top of that they had 2 bad capacitors and a disconnect that fell apart upon opening it. Keep up the great work.

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

Great opportunity to make some real money after all those things wrong.- Also sell a maintenance agreement!

@kuhrd Жыл бұрын

These days the average person doesn't know or care to know until something stops working. In the past preventative maintenance was a thing most people did because it saved a lot of money but now most people can't be bothered to take the time to maintain things themselves. Add to that, with most warrantied systems the manufactures don't want the customer to do anything to the system without a qualified technician doing the work so they know it was done correctly and this gives people the false idea that these systems don't need maintenance till they have a problem.

@kevinmills5293 Жыл бұрын

That’s quite a clean. Do you do waxing and ceramic coating as well? 😂😂

@InconsistentManner Жыл бұрын

Nice touch with the cricket. Literally and Figuratively

@Jason-wc3fh Жыл бұрын

I had a call to one just like this a few weeks back. It was a Trane. Capacitor was all bulged out and destroyed. But up until that point, she kept on working. I hosed it down and got it sparkling clean with a new capacitor and it was back in business

@smacleod69 Жыл бұрын

even tho that design looks goofy, it Really is one of the easiest to work on because of the accessibility.

@LilYeshua Жыл бұрын

Back in the eighties in the hottest part of summer,the compressor kept kicking out one of my dad's carrier window ac units. I and my brother had an idea to pull the unit out and take it to the local carwash to clean it and hope it would run normally again. We cleaned everything and when we reinstalled it the AC ran like brand new again. It pays to keep the AC clean.

@johncspine2787 Жыл бұрын

You’re lucky the heavy pressure on that didn’t really screw up the fins…

@LilYeshua Жыл бұрын

@@johncspine2787 with the car wash spray wand it sprays low pressure and high pressure when you squeeze the trigger. I make sure that it didn't bend the fins.

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

@@johncspine2787 Spine fin coils are very delicate and wouldn't stand anything but a low pressure spray!

@tradesman63 Жыл бұрын

Coils were thicker in the 80’s.

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

@@tradesman63 Yes , in the 60's/70's to make outdoor units more compact. Much harder to clean-up coils!

@michaelcinaz Жыл бұрын

Now that’s how you clean a condenser coil! Great job Curtis! 👍 An HVAC technician has never cleaned my condenser coil that good, so I just do it myself. I use a shop vac to vacuum up all the water so it doesn’t get too wet around the area. Also use it to vacuum leaves out of the bottom.

@clayevans3421 Жыл бұрын

Y’all just did the maintenance last week 😮

@tombeilman5579 Жыл бұрын

The units are pretty far apart for mobile homes. Just a little covered with a fur coat. Hate working in the rain especially if you are using electricity

@leeb.7188 Жыл бұрын

That’s the best way to live; not having neighbors too close.

@ua7pyro591 Жыл бұрын

Imagine going to school for years on end to get a license just to clean coils all summer long 😂😂😂

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

Hope he charged them plenty; Curtis was watching his time!

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't take years...thats a great thing about trades...15 weeks for a lot of schools...you can get one year certificates and most Community Colleges have prep courses for certification exams. Cost is $3k-$10k. Some states require apprenticeships for some time, some don't. Compared to a four year college at $100k debt, the HVAC tech is done in a year, making $70k or better for 3 years before the college kid even graduates and starts working to pay the debt!!! Most college graduates are not going to make that much more than a good trade...some will, maybe 25% of them and maybe 10% will make a whole lot more. But it's not for everyone and I think there are a lot more people making the same or a little more than a tradesman than there are making a ton more.

@2nickles647 Жыл бұрын

Yup..my buddy and me setup a mobile car wash. We towed our red wagons full of hoses. Car wash stuff. We washed lots of cars during 2 summers. That was the good ole times.

@victorgalagan1151 Жыл бұрын

Buddy you earned your money today.

@stephenbullock-yn3vh Жыл бұрын

Come pour down. Excellent work curtis 👍

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

Anyone else now in the habit of looking over the condensor when you visit someone, especially family? I have a neighbor whose conde sor unit is pretty noisy and planning to chat him up a bit. My wife thinks im nuts! Except it is helping people. Amazing how few people even know to clean coils. I didnt know until id owned a home 10 years. Never even seen a tech do on annual calls.

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

I look at their filters

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

@HVACGUY ROFL...I'll start doing that too, my wife will lose it!

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

If I had a call and saw a new filter in, I went to the garbage cans and checked for the replaced filter! It tells a lot!

@jordenb9469 Жыл бұрын

Those old Rheem Ruud units are tough as nails! Don't make them like that anymore. R22 and the old mineral oil last forever in the worst conditions.

@viborgvee8399 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely adore your long-form unedited coil cleaning videos; I find them incredibly therapeutic, relaxing and satisfying. Thank you.

@sergioblanco4504 Жыл бұрын

Now that’s the correct way to clean a coil! Great job Curtis! To bad we couldn’t see the pressures difference because of the rain.

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

After such thorough clean up job even without the rain may take twenty minutes to see true pressure drop.-

@davidskaggs9914 10 ай бұрын

I rarely get a call where the filter and coils aren't dirty😂

@stevencossaboon3237 Жыл бұрын

Nice work Curtis. That one had a wholly mammoth coat.

@russellhltn1396 Жыл бұрын

The HVACR VIDEOS talks about using the viper foam gun with their products. I can see why. The cleaner says you can skip the rinsing if running higher than 20:1 dilution. The viper gun will go up to 80:1. I'd think that could help you cut down on the foaming and the time it takes to clean it off.

@chrissmith513 Жыл бұрын

Boy those things sure get dirty 😊😊😊

@tphvac87 Жыл бұрын

Curtis you need to enable CC, last time I’ll ask… love the videos just can’t hear well. Also it’s easier to brush away the big stuff first and soak the coil in my opinion, that’s the way I do it anyway. Then add coil cleaner to it and throughly rinse it off

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

KZfaq has recently made it much harder to do that. It doesn’t automatically generate them like it used to.

@J-Colt Жыл бұрын

I would like cc also please. I’m hard of hearing also and miss a lot without it. Thanks for video.

@tphvac87 Жыл бұрын

@@HVACGUYthat’s odd cuz every other hvac KZfaqr I watch has em

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

@@J-Colt Use a headset as I do; works really well.-

@J-Colt Жыл бұрын

@@bobboscarato1313 I do with ipad in bed but not with main computer downstairs.

@ms7168 Жыл бұрын

I've always had to clean mine every year sometimes twice!

@Merlyn4011 Жыл бұрын

Nothing like southern weather. After baking ya it gives a rinse cycle

@michaelburgess7703 Жыл бұрын

I would have sprayed the form from the inside first to push the dirt out the front. And then spray the front with the form. I think it would save you some time Curtis if you did that way.🤫👍🤟🌟

@thesilentonevictor Жыл бұрын

You saved the day on this one

@Demy26 Жыл бұрын

What a rain storm

@plucy470 Жыл бұрын

Was in the trade for 45 years. After about 40 i bought a raincoat. Smart,huh?

@throttlebottle5906 Жыл бұрын

like they always told me when I complained about rain, "sugar melts, poo doesn't, get back to work" 💩💩 🤣🤡

@Sctronic209 Жыл бұрын

Great job Curtis.

@kens.3729 Жыл бұрын

You Gotta Love the Oval Shaped Above Ground Swimming Pool. 😬👍

@anthonybuonagurio-gl9bg Жыл бұрын

You dropped that cover pretty close to the pool

@hotfeva9843 Жыл бұрын

Just had 2 units today that look similar 🤦🏿‍♂️customer tells me "yea we get it serviced twice a year by *******" yea OK bud Man I'm surprised the rain didn't kill that contactor compartment 😮

@adrianstanton2652 Жыл бұрын

Just a question Since you removed the outer housing why wash the outside first? Why not spray from inside first?

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

Spraying through never would’ve budged that

@lancelawrence3259 Жыл бұрын

Nice work

@danobrien3109 Жыл бұрын

Sorry you got soaked brother. Sometimes your the windshield sometimes your the bug.👍👍🇨🇦

@michaelputro5766 Жыл бұрын

I always come across those issues in the country and trying to clean them with low pressure well water hooked up to the garden hose 🤣

@robertcouffer7908 Жыл бұрын

Probably worked really good in the Winter ?

@risc19 Жыл бұрын

'Yellow death' may have helped on this one.

@jthonn Жыл бұрын

It was just a little dirty, lol. If it was cooling any the way it was, It should freeze you out of there now. Great job!

@kodom85 10 ай бұрын

Typical case of having lawnwork and lawnmower exhaust blowing straight towards a Ruud/Rheem unit for years and years. Dust mixed with but grass is like paper-mache sometimes. It sticks EVERYWHERE in a condenser. I see that so much where I live. Glad that the manufacturer is going away from the short squat units and making them taller. The taller ones seem to collect and hold debris noticeably less.

@roberts.3712 Жыл бұрын

That must have been a rental.

@condor5635 Жыл бұрын

Having compressor outside of the condenser square makes it so much easier! And the fact that it’s a single row coil. Mine is 2 rows 😞Great job!

@richardambrose3156 Жыл бұрын

I feel for you for sure.. Have gotten Soaked where i worked at Many Times in Summer Thunder Storms

@laserman132 Жыл бұрын

You need magnetic umbrella

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

Really there wasn't a cabinet left to set it. He needed a beach umbrella planted near the unit!

@wizzkidelectronics Жыл бұрын

you need a magnet umbrella . i thaught it was you that had one ? i watch a few of you guys

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

I’ve got one.

@perez406 Жыл бұрын

How much do you charge for a service call like that? Just want to compare my prices in the greenville area.

@agostinodibella9939 Жыл бұрын

Curtis, that’s the most thorough coil cleaning video I have ever seen. Even you got rinsed off in the end!

@diegolopez19 Жыл бұрын

Always clean and spray from the inside out first. For something that heavy and thick i would recommend vacuuming the whole coil and the inside first. No matter how tempted you are to just get the carpet off of that coil, it’s best to vacuum it off and push out first since you’ve already taken the panels off. Atleast that’s how I was thought and how I’ve acostumed my self too. Then you rinse from the inside of the coil out, pushing all the dirty and grime outwards. After you can soak and spray from upwards to downwards. Following by just hosing the whole coil down from the outside in.

@hinspect Жыл бұрын

My Socks feel wet now!👍🇺🇸

@kg4muc Жыл бұрын

I hope the evaporator fairs better than the condenser❗️That has been collecting fur for a while!

@bernardodejong8080 Жыл бұрын

I bet the filter of the evaporator is screaming hell 😂

@rss608 Жыл бұрын

You must have the patience of a saint.... Ooops as you spray water into your $20k tool bag....

@frankblankenship3026 Жыл бұрын

Great job Curtis

@Bob.W. Жыл бұрын

Another hair shirt! 😂

@bill944 Жыл бұрын

I know you were pressed with the storm rolling in but you're supposed to let that particular cleaner sit on the coil for a minimum of ten minutes to do it's thing before rinsing.

@johncspine2787 Жыл бұрын

Devil’s advocate..looked like the initial rinse showed the stuff coming off really easily, I could already see through it before the chemical spray, so, yep, ideally a good soak would be better but, it’s in better shape now..

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

Probably you're right...but I'd guess that just the hosing cleaned this up to 80% perfect and the short soak pushed that to something like 95%. The few more minutes of soaking probably wouldn't add much benefit. I'm not a tech though so happy to hear other points of view.

@gilbertw5370 Жыл бұрын

Would neglect like this void any potential warranty on the coils or compressor. The tradesman earns his money the hard way in the south this time of year Here in Texas we get brutal heat

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

I haven't had a warranty myself, my mother does and hers requires annual service by a licensed tech. Either they'd clean it so that didn't happen, or if it did cause a problem, they wouldn't mention it because they'd be liable having been responsible for the service.

@primalscreamz Жыл бұрын

At least you found a hydrant that actually works at a mobile home

@762531971 Жыл бұрын

I had one that I wish I would have recorded it. Old sears unit outside unit, had 5 inches of carpet on the fins. Sad part I was the 5 technician to look at the unit. Each before me recommended new ac system, cleaned it up. Checked for correct volts. Fired right up and started cooling. Checked inside filter, recently changed. Dropped the house from 86 to 82 before I left. Also the air coming out of the vents was a 25 degree change. Did have my supervisor give me a bonus because the family called back in and told the company what I had done. Took almost 2 hours to clean the outside unit. Had to remove the outside cage and then peeled the fur lined carpet off, then washed it out.

@robalexander7348 Жыл бұрын

Well Curtis, those coils must be the dirtiest coils you have cleaned, it's amazing how people don't look after there A/C units, as it's there Heating and Cooling all year round, i'd like to see the indoor coil 😮

@nightwolf29 Жыл бұрын

Curtis, do you recommend using simple green cleaner on the coil?

@CurtisDuprePlumberhva 4 ай бұрын

Good job

@CurtisDuprePlumberhva 4 ай бұрын

That’s the way I do it

@CurtisDuprePlumberhva 4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@jima3129 Жыл бұрын

Throw some of that Viper into the pool. The kid's will love the bubble bath!

@Chris2745100 Жыл бұрын

Curtis, are you getting thunderstorms every afternoon by you?

@houstonsbestairheat 11 ай бұрын

Pretty clean system 😂 you got some nice videos keep up the great work

@AZBADBOYz Жыл бұрын

How the hell does that even happen? In Arizona we never have to clean our.

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

@@Geno70andstillkickingitno cottonwood down here

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

@@Geno70andstillkickingit Cottonwood is really terrible on condenser coils! Get callbacks too; told folks if those trees are yours cut them down asap!

@thetruth6072 Жыл бұрын

When the rain starts i stops😂 "YOU ARE A SUPER TECH" 🤙🤘👍

@Perly53 Жыл бұрын

Dang, that was a wet call. Good work!

@anthonyelectric6045 Жыл бұрын

Wow that was down to a 1/2 ton system with all that crap. Great cleanup job and that was the easiest unit I’ve seen to access the entire coil and then some 👍

@mikeanonymous669 Жыл бұрын

That old song...Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head I hear in the background.

@ThierryC2373 Жыл бұрын

The winter fur coat! 😆

@bagtube Жыл бұрын

Can you explain what a perfect head pressure should be and how you figure it out exactly. Dirty condenser equals higher head pressure clean equals lower ; but what is acceptable or correct pressure?

@archmadnessdr6504 Жыл бұрын

Dude those units are absolute tanks. I saw one from 1985 that was like 1/4 under ground in a flood area and the other 3/4 of the coil was clogged with mud. It was still keeping the house at 74⁰ in 95⁰ weather

@jenko701 Жыл бұрын

You dam sure earn your money.

@ua7pyro591 Жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@vladekvladinov5753 Жыл бұрын

30$ rain coat makes a difference. Trust me I got one

@franciscoflores2718 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know what letter setting you use for the foam gun. Every time I use mine it finishes to fast

@scottowen3162 Жыл бұрын

WHEN WAS LAST TIME IT WAS CLEANED??? AND SERVICED YOU MAY WHAT TO OFFER SERVICE PLAN .😁😁🤨🤨🤨🤨

@rday7573 Жыл бұрын

Ive watched a lot of your videos and wondered if youd ever accidentally sprayed the tool bag.

@bobboscarato1313 Жыл бұрын

Heck the tool bag in this video got thoroughly sprayed on!

@alannewsome1729 Жыл бұрын

She’s wearing a fur coat hehehe

@khx73 Жыл бұрын

ohhh mama she's wearin' a fur coat!

@drjoeset Жыл бұрын

THIS IS THE VERY REASON I WELDED A FOOT TALL ALUMINUM FRAME , BOLTED IT TO THE CONCRETE SLAB AND SET THE UNIT ON TOP OF IT, 15 YEARS LATER MY UNIT STILL LOOKS NEW

@Sctronic209 Жыл бұрын

It’s a woolly mammoth.

@noretropietip2348 Жыл бұрын

I had one so bad today it blew multiple holes in the condenser coil. Worked great till Friday

@andrzejhajder6405 Жыл бұрын

You are not first HVAC tech that chang his trade to carpet removal business 😅😅😅

@danwittels5542 Жыл бұрын

That coil hasn't been that clean since it left the factory! Great job Curtis!

@Countrysidehvacservice Жыл бұрын

What camera/mic setup do you use? I’d like to record my service visits for training our new techs

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

GoPro Hero 11. Tweaked settings, but nothing more

@rolytech212 Жыл бұрын

Hello Curtis, are those Milwaukee’s waterproof?😎

@HVACGUY Жыл бұрын

Yes

@chrisryu4742 Жыл бұрын

ngl this is why i always have an old uniform and towel tucked away in my truck. so when i get soaked i dont need to beg to go home to get changed lol

@ForgetU Жыл бұрын

Sun umbrella or rain umbrella.

@w5cdt 2 ай бұрын

Scary working wires while wet!

@new2000car Жыл бұрын

So was the source of the lint/dirt the trees, or a clothes dryer? There was no dryer vent in sight. Maybe it exhausts under the trailer and seeps out through the vent holes in the white skirting?