Returning an Abandoned House to Working Order!
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In this video I visit what was an abandoned house to hook up the gas, and get the furnace working. #hvacguy #hvaclife #hvac #airconditioner #hvactechnician #furnace #heatpump #hvacinstall #hvactrainingvideos #hvactroubleshooting #rheem #furnace #gasmeter @ruud @Climasterlatino @HVACKnights @ReliableHVACR @KoolinwithKrauss @BHVAC
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Hard to believe that people are living in that house. Wow
Good job Curtis connecting that old gas meter up, i hope that old furnace gives safe service in fututre, and they must repair that door handle for saftey precautions 👍 Au
She's a classic. Build back when we made appliances more reliable.
I like these type videos where every turn of the wrench is shown. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them!
By putting a pipe wrench on that shutoff without a nipple at least started very well distorted the brass enough that the nipple wouldn’t start. I’ve experienced that myself enough said 😊
Oldie Goldie furnace for sure! Not as efficient as modern units but better build quality! I like #5 also and Megagrip as a second. Great job resurrecting this unit!
I agree.
Greetings from Connecticut, where this past Saturday it was 82° 🔥in the afternoon, and Wednesday night it dropped to 26° 🧊.
I assume getting the heat working was so a crew could gut that house in relative comfort? 😆Perhaps next time, when you tell them you need the electricity and gas hooked up, you might want to add "I also need access to the furnace closet" to the list.
I definitely understand your warnings about the pipe dope, just had to replace the water pump in my Jeep and dealt with red RTV sealant. There's no good way to keep it from getting just about everywhere. Comes off skin easily enough, but once it's on your clothes... Game over.
Probably distorted ballvalve threads when tightening before installing nipple. Never a good idea to tignten when there's no nipple inserted for a foundation.
Yup. He egg shaped the valve by using the pipe wrench on it without a nipple inserted 🤷♂️
Old Reem. Worked on a ton of them. Good video
You need to invest in an air compressor. Save a lot of time when trying to clean out the blowers.
Nevercese works great on the meter conection
Here in Massachusetts we would have tested the gas and had a gauge on it for the inspection first, then we pipe the meter with black malible fittings. Paint the pipe and wait forever for gas company to come and unpin the gascock.
Nice work Curtis.
Thanks!
Don’t put a pipe wrench on a brass valve without a nipple in place or you will distort the valve.
Been there and done that 😊lol. Live and learn
It will be another call back
I’ve had my gas business for 24 years installing gas lines & leak repairs and have found & repaired many leaks on those gas valves. One can see by the tooth marks that someone warped the valve with a pipe wrench.
That looked to be one of those jobs that are just fun to do really. Any time I see that avocado green, I know it's an old one. It was filthy, but we kind of expected that, even though you made it a million times better, it could still use a deep clean and vacuum. As long as no leaks and no CO, you are good to go. Smoking in the house doesn't help. Also, if it has an old water heater and stove, 3 pilots going it may show a little higher than what you are use to seeing. I could not believe the thermocouple was still good in that old unit, you just never know. What got me was how you picked up on CO outside, but then showed the same inside. Maybe the detector needs to be calibrated or reset? I'll stop jawin' now, you did what I am use to seeing you do, a freakin excellent job!
Also, it would be a good work medium to invest in aluminum pipe wrenches; they are worth the investment.
Just used them today. The old school ones are to heavy when your just dealing with 1/2 and 3/4
I'm such an old fart I didn't realize they made aluminum ones. I bet the heavy ones will kick the aluminum ones butt.
@@jthonndefinitely I have a few big husky wrenches crescent makes a good one too
Have to give you a Lot of Credit for some of these Projects you’re Asked to Work on. 👍🙏
I appreciate that!
From what I could see of that house, having your glasses fall off Wes probably a good thing !
No bubbles = No troubles Curtis . That indoor unit made lots of noise when you put that fan on but, the up side is the heat exchanger is very likely intact. Because with all those cob webs the air flow over the heat exchanger would have made them dance and they seemed to be very still. Still may want to offer an upgrade to a mid efficient system. 👍👍🇨🇦
I agree Dan, bubbles don't lie, and it could use a new system. I think he is just trying to keep it going for now, sounds like one of his good customers. It's an old house (slumlord type) so the heat works now, a window unit or two next summer, and you're rockin' and rollin'.
You distorted the valve end thread when you tighten up the valve with out the nipple pre installed in the valve end Curtis
Use some soap on the meter treads. It would go a lot smoother
When I worked for the gas co., I would always put a small amount of pipe dope on the meter threads for lubrication. If ya ever have to loosen that nut, you will be glad that ya did.
@@bobgallo3775 never seize. Just a dap I would put on. Never seizes and the gasket keeps it from leaking. Pipe dope, I never used. But I guess it would work
It's an old unit but still in working order...no safety issues
Were I live that meter vent needs to be plumbed 3 ft away from any window by code!
Pipe the vent away from window
Have you ever thought about using an internal pipe wrench to tighten close nipples? It will save the threads from getting damaged. I bought a set at home depot.
Didn’t know they were a thing
About 15.00 for a set of 3 at home depot, give it a try
A lot less work id you do not use less couplings and most areas you can not use galvanized pipe for gas line.
Always enjoy your videos. I’m a retired hvac tech and I’m trying to stay in the loop Thanks!
Never seen a shut off installed on the customer side of the meter except for at the devices it's running
I think safety wise, they need to replace the door handle to the closet in case of an issue…the tenant won’t be able to open the door
I'd like to think it would get replaced, but I've rented in enough places to realize even a high quality rental won't do the obvious. When I moved into my current place, I went to replace the filter after the first month (I do it monthly when I pay the rent to be in the habit of doing it). I opened the cover to see what size filter I needed to buy, only to find out I had been running the AC without a filter for that whole month.
I think he got it working.@@craigdupree1687
@@craigdupree1687yup I’ve seen renters do that very consistently, landlords should make it a point to replace it on a schedule.
Im our AHJ makes us put a supporting hanger on the out going gas pipe before going into the house instead if having the gas meter itself support the gas pipe. If you rupture the diaphragm in the regulator you will have a waiting period and a hefty bill from gas company, just a fyi. Was there any signs of white powder on the flue and did you take the topper off at the end of the flue to see if anything was blocking the flue pipe? Since the house has been inhabitable for some years? Looks like an old Westinghouse furnace? Great video thanks Curtis.
Yes I did pull the cap off and remove spider webs.
Hey curtis with this new refrigerant coming out will we still be able to braze
Sure
Good video 😀
Thanks 😁
3:21 that's vintage!.
Why didn't you use 1 nipple and eliminate the coupling
Fairly surprising that heating system passed as working okay. I'd recommend the owner replace the shaded pole with a capacitor start as that thing sure starts up slow and hums much getting up to speed. It is also likely to be more efficient on the power consumption using a PSC. The rusty gas meter fittings they left him with can be helped with some plumbers gas thread compound to act as a lube to help get them turning smoothly as well as sealing the connection. In our area, we have to use black pipe. Long live the old HVAC that were made to serve the public for a few decades. Long live the good HVAC techs who use common sense and apply professional methods in their service like Curtis does.
We’re you talking to ghost asking if they smoke
Must’ve been cause no one was answering me.
Can't imagine plumber jobs for that house
That’s one janky looking unit, almost felt like it was going to go off like a block of C-4
Why do the people you say are calling have their gas turned off? We never turn ours off.
Rental property. And every time the electric bill changes tenants. They come out and turn off the gas. But this house had been abandoned.
Lots of pilot flames still out there so if the utilities get new owners or they don't pay, off goes the gas meter as well as any standing pilots.
I know you are not a janitor but wouldn't a small shop vac come in handy - just suck up all the cob webs and mouse poop and rust etc, ?
Why did you use a coupling instead of a union in the gas line?
Don’t need a union. The piece on the meter unscrews like a union.
Honestly Curtis I understand you wanting to keep the bill low on the abandoned house.
But seriously a gas only furnace in GA where a low is typically in the upper 40s and does not get below freezing often. Just does not make sense and you rehooking up gas service.
When just replacing the super old gas furnace with a heat pump seems more financially feasible in this case.
Like giving an estimate on a new gree flex 3 ton unit with the 10 kw heat or at a minimum a gree flex system with the coil only in between with that old gas furnace as a backup when the heat pump needs to defrost.
Again that old gas furnace just seems and looks like it a carbon monoxide or fire Hazzard waiting to happen and me I love the old stuff considering they are way more reliable than a lot of today's systems.
So for me to say more needs to be done or that gas furnace needs to go says a lot.
Georgia has more then one climate. The upper part of the state towards the TN and NC state lines can get below freezing often, even snow sometimes.
@@KenKen-ui4ny understand I am in Pennsylvania where the gas companies have gotten greedy and due to heat pumps bieng able to now heat to really low temps many homes are getting away from oil and gas now and trust me where I live which borders on the state of Delaware it gets below freezing often. But we also tend to have a really humid climate also like Georgia. More so now.
And my comment was saying seriosely that gas furnace needs to go and also I think Curtis is around the Savanah Georgia area which is around an hour from hikten head south Carolina where my late father would take me once a year when I was a kid.
And I remember at Christmas time the temps were around 70 degrees for a high.
@@gabrielstern4992 Exactly correct, Curtis must be hard headed but go ahead and keep working for these property manement companies..the lawyers will catch up with you.
@@gabrielstern4992 Heat pumps can produce heat at below freezing temperatures, but it's more of a Luke warm type of heat. It not the cozy type of heat that some still prefer. This is where heat strips, which basically make the air handler to also function as an electric furnace, and gas/electric dual fuel systems are more considered in such cases. Delaware and eastern PA, has more of a coastal temperate climate, that borders sub tropical climate. This is probably why you can get quite humid summers there.
@@KenKen-ui4ny while I am southeastern PA it used to get quite cold here but that has stated to change about 15 years ago.
Finally this week it finally overnight hit 27 degrees.
And it's now November.
Im worried bout press fittings leaking
I don’t think I’ve seen a press fitting rated for gas. There may be, but not the press fittings I use.
@@HVACGUY I was talking more for refrigeration with the new refrigerants coming out
That CO meter needs replacing there’s no way to get 2 ppm outdoors
Just curious, what kind of watch do you have? Thanks for the video.
Apple ultra
Thank you, I'm in the market for one.
And I thought I was messy.
Hi, Curtis,
Great pipefitting video!
How old is that furnace-early 1970s?
Not sure
5 commercial breaks in 18 minutes WOW
the union wont rust as easy!!
Curtis can yall use galvanize instead of black iron pipe and fittings in Georgia. In Alabama all black iron?
Yes. And black pipe is forbidden underground altogether
Is not code to place the CO2 monitor within 20 feet of the furnace or gas device?? Or is the rule just 12-18 inches off the floor??
Hi bro from west Alabama
What’s up
@@HVACGUY are u ok
@@jamierushingsure. I have bad days like anyone else . But, I’m good. How bout you?
@@HVACGUY it ok
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Definitely looks like galvanized pipe not black pipe?
👍👍😊😊
You ain’t no plumber
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