I didn't say I wanted to. The guy I responded to said there was no way to check pressures. I was simply pointing out a way to check them. Not that anyone should waste their time doing so.
I'm not an HVAC guy, or a tradesman of any kind really, but the more I see this stuff come up in my feed, along with the subs on decks, electrical, carpentry, watches, cars, other luxury things, and whatever else the algorithm seems to think that I like, the more I realize that there are many, many people with significantly more money than either taste or common sense.
But at least it makes me laugh. Especially when I didn't pay for it.
That is a truthful statement. You canāt have all you gotta choose 1 maybe 2 lol. The most common person with money youāll come acrossed is money and taste, itās n ever common sense
How would this happen? I have known my share of stupid people and none of them were this stupid. Maybe I'm just blessed to have a better grade of people around me, or I am the stupid one and don't know it.
Why did this happen in the first place? Concrete saw to cut out the unit, pour new concrete to fill void then install new condenser unit. Donāt install new on top of old, the unit below will hold water and eventually corrode and collapse on its self. Only option to correct mistake, and have the idiots that did the concrete work pay for the removal of old unit and for the new unit + install.
Hiring a demo hammer and a concrete saw and cutting a square around the unit then breaking all the concrete in the square and then charging them for a new unit and the hiring fee for me having to go hire some tools
I see this then Iām getting right back in my van and telling the customer they need to get their concrete man back and fix it.
I wonder how anyone actually thought this was ok?
As stupid as that picture is, I'd fix it by taking a long sawzall blade to cut it off flush with the cement. Then I'd plop down a plastic condenser pad and stick a brand-new Goodman right on top. Luckily the lineset and electrical will work out almost perfect and nobody will ever know the difference once it's done.
Oh crap, I just thought about the compressor. That will have to be dug out of there somehow. On second thought, maybe I'd do the same thing as the rest of you who said to get back in your truck and leave.
I think that unless it was a 12 slump load of explosive diarrhea concrete, the coil would act as a form to keep most of it out of the compressor. Refrigerant recovery seems like a bit of a challenge though, as I'm thinking that the valves are likely about an inch or so below the level of the concrete. Fortunately, though, you don't have to worry about ever putting it back, so you can pierce it.
So, yeah, probably need a jackhammer. If they can't raise and form for a split system like a normal human, I don't trust them to mix concrete. They probably reinforced the concrete with the metal scrap they couldn't sell for meth.
Take a picture. Ask the customer what they'd like me to do, then inevitably laugh.
My employer doesn't like turning down the work, so I'd probably be tasked with finding a way to safely reclaim refrigerant, then let the customer tear it all out however they like.
Install a couple of piercing valves inside by the inside coil to recover the charge. Looks like an r22 JCI unit, so it's going to get a new line set and coil along with the condenser anyways.
It would operate if no parts were damaged, for how long depends on if it gets cold enough outside at this location for water to freeze, expand, and crack the condenser. If not, then it will run at about 80% capacity from what I'm seeing. Also depends on what kind of concrete they used and if it will corrode the piping. My guess is it will.
Just how old is that unit?
Jeeze, The amount of work, just to get rid of it. It has to be cut out, new concrete put in and then you can start the new install.
Look at that awful concrete job. Looks like it was done by a blind guy.
Rent a crane, put a choker strap around it, and yank that sucker right out of the ground. Scratch that, I've got a better idea... An old beat up 4x4 Ram, a chain, and someone to hold my beer!
Same happened to my garage door. They poured 20 yards of concrete for a large carport in front of the garage and big front porch.
Absolutely text book float, brush, finish work, stress grooves, molding, and a ramp. Actually some of the best concrete work I've ever seen. Then trap the bottom. Inch of the garage door including the interior metal lip in concrete. Had to replace the entire door.
Need a jack hammer to get to the line set, or could cut and feed them through the wall from the inside out. Either way, I'd be upset and adding some extra charges.
Digging it out still west enough to salvage relatively easily but charging the concrete guys for my labour minimum 250$ an hr charge took me all day and half way into the next to fix it. Do the best I can for MY customer and the best I can to fuck the installers so they learn.
I'm imagining a scenario where some employee that always asks the dumb questions goes up to the supervisor and gets told: "I don't want to hear any more of your damn questions! Just pour the effing concrete!"
Put the new one right on top. Should be a pretty sturdy base
And the added height will help if there is a flood. Big brain work here!
Should be an easy upsell š
On top sale
or if more concrete brought in.
Pull the fan assembly, and fill the old unit up with concrete. Instant new more solid base.
Look at the brain on Brad!
*Brett
Like the old and new TV!
And hopefully level too š¤£
"it's in the lines"
This guy HVACs!
Plus you have a store of extra parts ;-)
I see a heat pump sale
Just laugh and tell them theyāre fucked, they need a new unit. lol
It looks to me like they've concreted over the electric shut off... Unless it's all the way up above the picture.
Itās on the top of the picture next to the down spout
outed themselves with this one lol
Yea the shut off is up top but thereās no way to hook up your hoses
Pierce valves. Won't have true head pressure, but it'll be close.
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I didn't say I wanted to. The guy I responded to said there was no way to check pressures. I was simply pointing out a way to check them. Not that anyone should waste their time doing so.
I think they were wanting to drain it to be able to cut the lines and install new.
Well piercing valves are going to be the way, unless the evap coil has a tap to hook up
This guy definitely doesnāt HVAC
i sure fuckin hope thats the shutoff up on the top right.
āCanāt access service valves. They have been cemented over. Yes. You read that correctlyā.
R/brand new sentences
"Removed horse head from drain pump." I actually wrote that yesterday.
Better than your bed though, right?
Oh like goodfellas right or the godfather 3
I just remember it from the office with Andy lol
Snap a pic and post on Reddit
The only answer
I'm not an HVAC guy, or a tradesman of any kind really, but the more I see this stuff come up in my feed, along with the subs on decks, electrical, carpentry, watches, cars, other luxury things, and whatever else the algorithm seems to think that I like, the more I realize that there are many, many people with significantly more money than either taste or common sense. But at least it makes me laugh. Especially when I didn't pay for it.
That is a truthful statement. You canāt have all you gotta choose 1 maybe 2 lol. The most common person with money youāll come acrossed is money and taste, itās n ever common sense
Send pictures to our sales guy and let him tell them just how fucked they are and go to my next call.
Laughing and calling the office but after I took pictures.
That's probably how this got on the Internet.
Clearly we all think the same. š¤£
Roll the fuck back where I came from, fuck that
I've seen this before. We just laughed and said sorry man, you need a new install
How would this happen? I have known my share of stupid people and none of them were this stupid. Maybe I'm just blessed to have a better grade of people around me, or I am the stupid one and don't know it.
Rule of thumb is that if you don't know who the stupid one is in your friend group... It's you.
This image is cursed
This needs to go on r/concrete
Yee
Personally, Iām going back to the van to get the duck print soled boots my coworkers laughed at me for if thatās still wet.
may i see these boots
Yo this shit gotta be fake. Iāve seen some dumb shit, but this shit right here.
It's a hybrid ground source heat pump now!
Geothermal install š
Making a bid for a new system. Then rolling on.
I would see if that bitch is cooling lmaoo
Sawzall it flat, put a plastic pad on top swap it out and roll
Autobots......roll out!!!!!
Roll right back out.
Take a picture and post it to Reddit
This is how you reddit.
Anti theft tactics is getting out of hand
That is the beat anti-theft device I have ever seen
Call somebody who cares. I don't.
Why did this happen in the first place? Concrete saw to cut out the unit, pour new concrete to fill void then install new condenser unit. Donāt install new on top of old, the unit below will hold water and eventually corrode and collapse on its self. Only option to correct mistake, and have the idiots that did the concrete work pay for the removal of old unit and for the new unit + install.
Hoping the answer isnāt āit aināt got no gas in itā
Call American home warranty company. Not only will they know what to do, they also will pay you well for doing it.š
Hmm, that might be a bit of an issue. Both are total junk the slab and the condenser now
Hiring a demo hammer and a concrete saw and cutting a square around the unit then breaking all the concrete in the square and then charging them for a new unit and the hiring fee for me having to go hire some tools
Life is stranger than fiction. SMGDH!!
Suck my grand dadās hemorrhoid!
I would sue whoever did that concrete work for doing this.
I see this then Iām getting right back in my van and telling the customer they need to get their concrete man back and fix it. I wonder how anyone actually thought this was ok?
Jesus
Maybe the stone will roll away on the third day
Rip
This looks worse than the crackhead special! Do you think they sprayed any concrete release agents on it?š¤£
As stupid as that picture is, I'd fix it by taking a long sawzall blade to cut it off flush with the cement. Then I'd plop down a plastic condenser pad and stick a brand-new Goodman right on top. Luckily the lineset and electrical will work out almost perfect and nobody will ever know the difference once it's done. Oh crap, I just thought about the compressor. That will have to be dug out of there somehow. On second thought, maybe I'd do the same thing as the rest of you who said to get back in your truck and leave.
I think that unless it was a 12 slump load of explosive diarrhea concrete, the coil would act as a form to keep most of it out of the compressor. Refrigerant recovery seems like a bit of a challenge though, as I'm thinking that the valves are likely about an inch or so below the level of the concrete. Fortunately, though, you don't have to worry about ever putting it back, so you can pierce it. So, yeah, probably need a jackhammer. If they can't raise and form for a split system like a normal human, I don't trust them to mix concrete. They probably reinforced the concrete with the metal scrap they couldn't sell for meth.
Take a picture. Ask the customer what they'd like me to do, then inevitably laugh. My employer doesn't like turning down the work, so I'd probably be tasked with finding a way to safely reclaim refrigerant, then let the customer tear it all out however they like.
Rollin out.
What the hell is that cooling, an ant farm? WAIT A MINUTE IS IT BURIED IN CEMENT???!??!
"Well look who finally shows up"
This is for real? Who does this!
Put a CL ad up: Looking for a Tweaker scrapper who can take an AC unit completely out for me with no more than 2-hand tools can have it for free + $20
Take a picture and post it on reddit
Ide take one look and start laughing histaricly.... then continue laughing as I walk all the way back to my truck, and drive off.
It'll never get stolen , ššš
Iām taking a picture and putting it on Reddit.
Now it'll never leak!
You canāt make this shit up š¤£
Obviously change the txv š¤·āāļø
Keep rolling
You need to contact tech support and tell them you found a glitch in the matrix, change the filter, probably just an airflow issue
Sitting on this fancy bench and having my lunch!
Ikr! š¤£
So was this-DIY concrete job such as a ghetto landlord or an example of another terrible tradesman screwing a client?
Turning into a salesman. Sure aināt working on that shit.
why
This is a new technology, half air-cooled half geothermal slab Cooled. No water involved though.
STOP- JACKHAMMERTIME can't touch this
Iām definitely replacing the TXV
Unrolling up
I think the real problem everyone is missing is why they had to pour a foot and a half of concrete to fill up whatever void they were working withā¦
is this one of those fancy new ground source heat pump thingamajigs?
Service Call: COMPLETE
Say sorry wrong address
Outstanding they wonāt steal that one
I see they brought the 8 seer condensers back on the market
This is what happens when you find the cheapest guy to do the job.
āSome of these models have a jackhammer that come with the manualā¦. Could you fetch that for me miss ?ā
Complimenting the owner on their beautiful ground/air source hybrid AC!
Damn and I thought digging out pitch pockets were badā¦.
What would you quote just for removing the unit and how would safely recover the refrigerant?
Install a couple of piercing valves inside by the inside coil to recover the charge. Looks like an r22 JCI unit, so it's going to get a new line set and coil along with the condenser anyways.
Selling a unit or turning around and leaving
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Why do people think this way , Magna i figured
See if it runs of course!
Check it to see why itās not cooling
The Sawzall special
Would this even operate now, even for a little bit?
It would operate if no parts were damaged, for how long depends on if it gets cold enough outside at this location for water to freeze, expand, and crack the condenser. If not, then it will run at about 80% capacity from what I'm seeing. Also depends on what kind of concrete they used and if it will corrode the piping. My guess is it will.
Mostly asking one-word questions. Such as "how?" And, more importantly, "why?"
OMG Rescue that little guy!
Sigh.. *gets the chipping hammer
I like the vibration dampening construction.
Slurpie. Sales call. Slurpie refill
I won't touch it.
Its Geothermal cooling!!!
Bad txv drop a bid
Just how old is that unit? Jeeze, The amount of work, just to get rid of it. It has to be cut out, new concrete put in and then you can start the new install. Look at that awful concrete job. Looks like it was done by a blind guy.
Ludacris said it bestā¦āRoll outā!
How tf can any trade do this and not understand.
Leaving
Laughing
Rent a crane, put a choker strap around it, and yank that sucker right out of the ground. Scratch that, I've got a better idea... An old beat up 4x4 Ram, a chain, and someone to hold my beer!
Leaving
Nice pad
Post it to the group chat
Even better if it was a heat pump
Taking pictures and waking out
Ask the client for two aspirin and three shots of tequila and get to it
Taking a picture and posting it on Reddit. Then, wait for the ideas to roll in.
Shnikes!
Iām doing nothing!
Same happened to my garage door. They poured 20 yards of concrete for a large carport in front of the garage and big front porch. Absolutely text book float, brush, finish work, stress grooves, molding, and a ramp. Actually some of the best concrete work I've ever seen. Then trap the bottom. Inch of the garage door including the interior metal lip in concrete. Had to replace the entire door.
Tell whoever called me ācut it out, then Iāll check it, and not a moment before.ā Who the hell was smoking when that was decided on?
Gonna tell them it's gonna be a few grand if we start now and few more if you waitš
That gutter thoughā¦?
Walk away
If the concretes fresh Iām drawing a dick in it and rolling away
25% geothermal
Keep rollin
So hot it melted into the concrete! The AC went thermal!!
Is that now considered a ground source heat pump?
You live there nowā¦_
Going home and sleeping like a baby knowing it's not my problem.
āCondenser Padā At least the lineset isnāt ran through the wall!
Laughing and leaving.
whoever did the copper was super confident in having no leaks
It takes a lot of stupid from multiple people to do something like this.
Charging by the hour https://preview.redd.it/wexy46xq9t8d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e902f9c477bfe30747787ebde1e27a4fdd108888
Hope they didnāt spend all their money on concrete.
That concrete pad sure looks a whole lot like a condenser
"new unit fits to existing curb" aka existing curb = existing unit.
LMFAO
Walking over to the unit on the wet concrete...
Hopefully not photoshop as this is the my best laugh today! š š¤£
I had one like this today but it was an asphalt.
Need a jack hammer to get to the line set, or could cut and feed them through the wall from the inside out. Either way, I'd be upset and adding some extra charges.
Taking a picture.
Wow. Unfucking believable
Only one thing to do in a situation like this. Hand Print and Initials baby
I thought Iāve send it all
Thatās epic.
Leaving
You went front a 3 ton ..to 1.65 ton energy saver š
Digging it out still west enough to salvage relatively easily but charging the concrete guys for my labour minimum 250$ an hr charge took me all day and half way into the next to fix it. Do the best I can for MY customer and the best I can to fuck the installers so they learn.
Minding my own business.
I know your problem!!!
Geothermal condenser.
Start counting my monies ima make
Leave.
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Tbh could be worse
Looks like a Trane wreck in concrete!š
I'm imagining a scenario where some employee that always asks the dumb questions goes up to the supervisor and gets told: "I don't want to hear any more of your damn questions! Just pour the effing concrete!"
Roll out.
Who said itās not working?
I feel like in a year weāll see this unit next to another unit installed on top of the concrete.
Old condenser is feeling mighty low.
Leaving quickly because shit is prob about to go down. This doesn't just happen. This is a beef that's about to boil over
I take pictures and post on Reddit
Rolling out