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Comments (3)Funkill, cut to the chase and call in a consultaion from a professional well & pump company. Ask up front what the charges will be, and if any of the upfront fee can be credited back if they end up performing some or all of the work. I problaly have a hunch as to why you are getting a poor response from the local irr guys, and that is because they are slammed with work right now. In this business i view it as all of the bears (landscape clients) come out of their caves and all freak out over their landscapes & irrigation en masse. The kind of work you have for them to deal with is complicated in the general scope of work, and there are easier pickings for them out there. Sorry about this, it is a fact of life.The flow goes into the easy route...If I was called out to your place, I would only do it after you had ruled out well/pump problems and then go from there. When we do work on existing systems, we do all of our work on a Time & Materials basis, informing you along the way as to what your available options are, as fiddling around someone else's system sometimes takes much more time than you can imagine, and if we had to bid it it would give you a heart attack. Many times it is more cost effective abandon the old system + re-design and install a more efficient system. All of this I would advise up front on the phone before even making an appt. so the client is totally informed, and this also serves as a pre-qualifying tool as well, as there is only (1) of me, but lots and lots of potential clients out there, and the ones who are really serious about getting a quality + trouble free job installed are farther and farther between these days, thanks to the 'Home Depot' mentality and the proliferation of unlicensed folks out there masquerading as the real deal......See MoreI completed my DIY Air Handler Installation
Comments (10)Day 4 Update: I'm well into phase 2 which is the heat pump portion of the install. Yesterday I removed the old HP and brought the new HP to the site and set it on a new condenser pad. Today's fun project was crawling thru my crawlspace removing old refrigerant line and installing a new 50' lineset. My wife fed me the tubing thru a conduit feedthru I made thru the foundation of my garage right next to the air handler. Surprise #1 The lineset went thru the conduit just fine but hit a stub of a 2X4 hanging below a beam in the crawlspace. It was just a spacer for a water pipe but as luck would have it it was perfectly in line with the conduit feedthru. That was fun cutting off the stub laying on my back. Threading the lineset was slow going because the route was S shaped instead of a straight shot. I had to gradually bend the shape after every 4-5' was fed thru. It's now hung and tie wrapped with nice gradual bends. This time I got lucky since I have about 1-2' extra from a 50' spool. Surprise #2 It was really nice of Mueller to provide a 90 degree ell in the end of the lineset. However it now points 180 degrees from where it needs to to connect to the air handler. Trying to turn 50' of installed lineset 180 degrees just won't happen. I'll guess I'll just have to use a street elbow fitting. Next weekends fun project with be brazing all connections and doing leak testing, evacuation, final charge and checkout. Doing a project like this gives me newfound respect for the pros that do this type of work day in day out....See MoreWhirlpool bath wouldn't shut off
Comments (0)Hi all, We have a Pearl whirlpool bath/shower set up. Its about 10 years old, with very little use to the Whirlpool, which is on its second pump. The first one needed replaced around the 2nd year. :( Anyhow....I decided to clean the tubing/tub and use it again. I began filling the tub. I was to fill it 2" above the highest jet. I noticed the start/stop button began flashing, but thought I just wasn't remembering how it works. Then, when the water got above the highest jet, the jets started working. I pressed the on/off switch and it wouldn't respond. I let it run for 20 minutes, thinking it might turn off automatically (which it usually does).....but it didn't. I finally turned off the circuit breaker to that area. I opened the apron up and tried to test the GFCI that the pump is attached to, but its not working. My question is........why would the pump get stuck ON, if the GFCI was broken?? This is pretty disconcerting. I might have just been using the whirlpool, not noticing it was stuck on, and wouldn't have had the GFCI protection. :( Thanks for your help. P.S. Would there be a danger in using it for the shower now, as long as the pump is disconnected? How am I supposed to check that that GFCI is working? .........just maybe monthly see if I can trip it and reset it??...See MoreFan Wire Installation Issue
Comments (2)Connect that black wire to the power in wire on the fan switch instead of the power out wire to the fan....See Moremorz8 - Washington Coast
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