Gas Furnace Change Out How Its Done
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- removed 34 year old 70 + gas furnace and installed new ruud 80+ gas furnace video from start to finish how its done out in the field start up and set gas pressure and combustion test up and running completed in one day ...enjoy the video LAVIMONIERE PRODUCTIONS,LLC
Nice tie-in Ole school metal work. Nice install will last long than us both.Got to keep Boss & baby mama warm.
This is just exactly the kind of thing I wish had been gone over, especially in this kind of detail, in my HVAC installation class. Thank you!
I personally don't mind using the flex gas lines, but I never run them into the actual furnace cabinet to the gas valve. I always use hard pipe for going into the furnace cabinet connecting it to the gas valve because I have heard of and read reports that the flex lines can eventually rub against the hole cut out where it enters the furnace cabinet and cause a catastrophic explosion or fire. In the mid-1990's this happened a few times (in Phoenix, Az.) and literally blew the roof off of peoples homes, so they finally made it a legal code to run the hard pipe into the unit and never use the flex line. It is fine to use a flex line only on the outside of the furnace, where it is not touching or going through any type of wall or metallic cover.
Thx. for the vids, the information, and the entertainment.
Next level bro.
God bless
Enjoy a craftsman doing his job he likes,looks like you enjoy sheet metal fabricating and figuring what it’s suppose to look like. Great job!
I have been going back and watching all your older videos, i do this while waiting on the next upload lol. Nicely done man..
Thanks for including the temperature rise in your start up. I think alot of guys forget this in their start up. Nice vid
Steven lavimonier your the man that can do it 💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍💯
Steve that is an impressive job, especially since it was in that tight space. I also liked it when you walked us through checking the gas pressure and adjusting it to get the combustion readings in the ideal range.
+Joe Bal good comment
@@stevenlavimoniere what tool doid you use for the combustion readings? Thanks!
hi! just got a new gas furnace after 35 years. I'm in an upstairs duplex, separate furnaces for upper and lower units. a new digital thermostat was installed in my dining room for it. I have the heat set to 70° - the apt. feels warm enough (I guess) but when I walk past the vents they're blowing cool - almost cold air. The furnace man gave me the "run-down" on how the unit heats up, how it maintains heat and how heat travels to my second floor. I was lost after his eons minute explanation. While I appreciated his knowledgeable attempt at his
make sure your thermostat is set to .....fan automatic....if its on fan on the fan will run all the time..there also is a post purge on the fan to cool down the heat exchange after a heat call so the fan will run for a while after tstat is satisfied ..
39 minutes is an amazing amount of time to install that.
Yea, tight install. Sometimes components need to be temporarily pulled to get room. Thats some nice work in a tight spot. Nice video, Steven. Thanks.
+Randy Kocian tight spot for sure
loved that duct work and your explanation throughout the precess. Your right introspect to "They d this in a book. great Vid!
Great install. One thing to note about the cross breaks: you bend them out to prevent the metal popping out when it fires up not just for appearance
I’m educatin’ myself before I install my new gas furnace for the first time. Steve has the best videos
Good lord
Great job and happy new years ✌️
Always love watching your videos. Your the reason I got into hvac! Was wondering where did you get that combustion book?
I'm surprised you dont have an apprentice with you,you'd be good to learn from with all you know
You make that tight nasty changeout look easy. Must be all the years of tuff jobs that you've tackled.😎
+HVAC/R Junky the longer you do something the easyer it gets
Thanks Steve. Great tips on how you panned that in. Nice looking work.
+zimsjeep glad you liked it
I like that u sealed the plenum with mastic, nice job Steve
Nice install Steven! Got to have those "cheat sheets." You can't remember everything!
+Brad1237202 good point
Steven lavimonier I like your utube videos are awesome 👍👍👍👍😎💯💯
That bloody gas line must have been fun . It didn’t look like you had any room for pipe wrenches.
Hope the homeowner pays you promptly for the excellent job! Lol. Great job Steve! Best time to do a heating install with all the nice weather finally here.
+Fireship1 still cool here
You have been doing quite a bit of work on your house. Nice, clean job.
Great Install , I love Ruud equipment ..
+barry hunt i like ruud/rheam furnaces also
About time manufactures are putting the capacitors in the front instead of the back now. Nice job
Another nice job Steve. Thanks for video!
+JOE Coulter thanks for watching
get to the part with the pooky...LOL Great video Steve, nice job. Man, they would need the fire department to get me out of that tight squeeze! LOL.
+Don Burton it was tight for sure
Nice job Steve and great video. We really appreciate your work ethic.
Nice!! Cool it was co-installed with your dad... :-)
I ben watching he's videos for years love this guy love to see move hvac. videos
Steven lavimonier you new gas furnace is cool
Thanks Steve, really Nice video.
That turned out sweet! A starkap on the hot gas vent will stabilize that draft even on a windy day. If someone were to put a piece of paper on the combustion air vent on the top of the furnace when running that situation would be deadly. If you timed how long the furnace took to shut down on the pressure switch, & monitored the ambient co levels around the furnace, you would see why Jim says put dual acting barometric & spill switch to shut it down within three minutes given restricted/misdirected combustion air or flue condition, it is the only way to truly make it safe for all circumstances. With the Baro & ss some miracle machines will rock & roll @ 3 to 4% oxygen, cuz you have control over the vent that sometimes can't remember which way it needs to go. Anyways thanx for teaching, I'm always evolving & learning thanks to guys like you & Jim. Every day's a school day in the ever changing laboratory we work in called the real world!
+Jeremy Calvin thanks for the comment
Thank you. You helped me spite my roommate Roscoe. I could never fully repay you.
Your videos are so helpful, i actually let the ads play through!. Figure its the only way i can pay you back. Thanks
Thank you Steven a lota lota lota info in one video.
+David LaBar yes for sure
Next level install and I really enjoyed watching this. Great point that you can't always go by gas pressure. Wonder how it feels to do HVAC in your own home, when you dedicate almost all your time to working on other properties?
+Michael Padovani my system was dew for a upgrade had to be done
Ive been doing installs for 5 years almost. I take pride in my work. Wether it be at a customers home or my own. I do the best work I can do just like I was doin my own! In this field you either want to do this or you dont. You cam only fake it so long withing this trade.
Hey Steve. Thanks for the great video. Always wondered how guys install furnaces in such tight spot :) Also very useful combustion test. Where do you get combustion test parameters? Thanks 👍
Cross break sheet metal with a screen door screen roller tool with sheet metal laid on soft surface (carpet)
Nicely done. Thanks steve. For inducer draft furnace 02 should be at 6-9%. U r a little low on O2. Ur testing point should be a little closer to the inducer motor. What is ur temp raise? Ur draft is terrible. Should be -0.01 to -0.02 and stable. Need fix the draft for sure. What cause that swing like that. Maybe wind idk. Yes u right we cant go with gas pressure. Oh ya u got the same book i got. Yes O2 from 6-9%.
Good video thank you. This ain't the Taj Mahal. Thanks again.
I see you went with a little ruud. You were talking possible York, but you didn't want to. Nice choice. Came out nice.
+Gary B ruud is a better unit then york i would say
Your a real working man!! Steve quick question is there a reason why you hard pipe in the gas line and not use flex gas line?
Great video that's cool how you installed the first one with your father
That stuff is SHARP! Do you ever get cut?
Loved the video with all the details. Thanks!
Beautiful looking install Steve
Where do you get a bender like that? I have to bend things by hand when I am stuck doing a furnace change and I have swooping Bend never sharp like that. That looks like the perfect tool. I've been doing this stuff for 35 years and always impresses me and some of your other videos some of the big jobs you end up doing by yourself some of the boiler replacements oil tanks. Makes me feel like a wuss after I watch some of your vids
" a man of my calibration", lol love it
nice work Steve!
+Jeff Moss thanks
Nice job Steve
Impressive install Steve. In your neck of the woods, do you have to do the combustion analysis?
Great job👍. I want to get into hvac!!
Great install on that Ruud/Rheem Furnace was that your house looks like your due for a new furnace
I wonder how DIY installers set these items like draft, gas pressure and measure CO, etc? Do the goodman furnaces come preset?
I'm in Indiana and we get some harsh winters temperature wise. It doesn't make sense to put a high efficiency unit in strictly for the savings. Same with a high seer rated a/c. The recovery on that cost sometimes can't be attained for 15 years. If you went all out on 3 stage equipment, your repair bills will wipe out any savings you made along the way. Not to mention the reliability of more technical equipment. You open yourself up for headaches.
Again I said "strictly for the savings". I realize that noise, air quality (good aprilaire filter with an 3 phase dc motor that runs on almost no electricity) if you run the motor 24/7, comfort of a more precise system... I do get that. But the majority of the people shouldn't be affording those high end systems. They need to save for retirement so when the furnace breaks they can afford repairs.
What gauge metal do you use. Looks good Steveo
No central air?
Nice job installing that one Steve! And by the way, you seem to know a lot about that job, is that your house?
The customer did all the work himself in the video.
Furnace fits like a glove, nice job Steve! How much difference is Jim Davis combustion figures compared to Tru Tech guidelines for combustion?
+Bernard Sobbe some differentes for sure . i think jim davis stuff is great i use both
steven lavimoniere Excellent Job Steve! How can I get one of those Jim Davis gas anilzer chart book.
Great job Steve as always, you showed a few more thing in detail and your theory on the setting up. Do you have to the class to get the book you was showing us CZcamsOHOLICS, lol . I could hear Baby going to town in the back ground, LOL. What a great dog she is. Just a little back ground on me my name is Rick and I live rite out of St.Louis on the Illinois side. Retired Air Force of 20 years in the sheetmetal career field, and now working for a 3 man heating and cooling company for 14 yrs. Don't get much training so when I see something that would help I try to get it. I have learned a lot on here, there are a great community of heating and cooling people here. Thanks Steve for sharing, I have learned a lot from you.
+Richard Mitchell yes i got the book from taking jims coarse
didnt realize this was your house at first haha
nice work, did you get paid well for this job, or was the owner a cheap ?
nice ...clean job...as always!!!
+George Siatos thanks man
Great video
Awesome and clean work man! Kuddos
Awesome video. Thanks for posting!
+efman2k3 thanks for watching
The drafts will help prevent mould in the basement next level.
get the nibbler in mama ! hehe...good work Steve
good luck Steve.
steven, thank you so much for your time in replying to my furnace concern. My thermostat is set on "auto" as you suggest and as much furnace guy suggests also. Temp set to 70° and apartment indicates it's 70° by 2 other thermostats put randomly about my apartment. I just can't figure out why "cool air" blows from the vents. It doesn't "feel" like 70° air. Furnace guy says to me, "Don't sit near the vents"..... I thought to myself, "The nerve!" Steve, in your professional opinion, why is the furnace blowing cool air when the cycle starts up again? I'm SO frustrated! I want to FEEL warm air blowing from the vents. Am I wrong? Am I missing something? I am open to listening to reason. Thank you. Steve
Next level, thanks for sharing.
+Darryl 603 thanks man
Got to love that banana oil on new equipment haha
Your tool is that not a unishear rather then a nibbler. just asking?
That was your own house? nice job.
+jm69charternet yes my own home
Am I wrong? I did not see the evaporator?
Steve, Nice Job
Another great install! What is the name of the book you were referencing? I'm interested in getting a copy. Thanks in advance!
Why didn't you add a coil for A/C or do u have it elsewhere
I have a question sir, there's a 1500 square foot block Foundation home that has a gas furnace in the hallway closet with ductwork in the Attic,, it doesnt have central air built in 1963. In theory, can you replace the gas furnace with a gas furnace AC combo and connect it outside with the fan and tie into the ductwork in the attic and be good to go,, even if the space has to be enlarged for the furnace is this something that's done often to homes with no central air conditioning? Thanks
So I have a 20 year old gas furnace in a condo I bought. I want to get it replaced with my home warranty. Is there a way I can be sneaky break it it a way that can’t be fixed and they won’t see or know I did it ?
I always use duct mastic to seal up any place that air could leak out of the duct so save energy
Here in Canada we don't have a choice it's 90 percent and up, no mid furnaces aloud
sucks to be you. Liberals fuck everything up.
hello steve happy new year where did you get that cross brake. question why do you need to cross brake the metal anyway.
@19:27 how did you get that front piece on if all four sides are s cleated?
That combustion test is 3.5 a standard number or is that furnace specific?
Does Jim Davis also teach Seimans Appogee classes?
Fieldpiece hoses suck . Can't use them in a greasy busy kitchen. When I went to the van for parts some Bozo stepped on one. Good thing I noticed the gauge / readout was on zero. Slice like a wet noodle. Buy the silicone red air switch hoses. Way more safer. Called up Fieldpiece acted like I was crazy. Told them could have been a possible disaster. A word to the wise!!!
Filter doesn't need encased?
excellent steve!!!!
beautiful plenum
Man couldn't they have ripped that out and had a wet system
the kind of heating is stone age
Nice install steve not an easy one
+k20aa stone ages or not it works fine
True steve not having a go at you
you did a damm good job fitting that looked very tricky
Where do you find ideal combustion ranges?
Was never taught this. Was always taught to adjust it to .05 rec on the gv
3.45 or 3.15ec and leave lo stage 1.4 or 1.2
great video
+Jose Gonzalez thanks man
How long does it typically take to install a furnace and duct work in a small house 700 square feet?
Replacing my furnace, which one you recommend
Hey brother what was that you used to cross brake?? It be much easier have that instead of lugging a 48" brake
Freeze!! CZcams police. Excellent work Steve.