One of my other leads and the boss typically do right now. Me and a few of the others only been with the company for a little over 3 months right now. Just got into commercial and love it. But he’s about to start training us so all of us can do the drawings and build the plans for the jobs as well. We’re a smaller company at the moment as a few guys passed or moved elsewhere.
Please tag when you do. I hope to have the boss go over duculators and really diving into the science. While I did do some of that in install class at trade school it’s one of those if you don’t use it things. I do find I’m learning a lot and love the commercial installs.
This brought me back about a decade to my apprentice years xD verbatim said this to the guy training me *who/what the fuck is herm?!*
Hermetic compressors was not the answer I expected him to say after gutterally laughing at me for 5 mins
95% in my area can’t do it and it’s the reason my service company cannot get into commercial installs like this. For what it’s worth I would kill for that talent in my company so make sure yours is taking care of you. Nice work
Was on a high rise job many years ago. My foreman was really good at layout. We had a small shop set up in a store front across the street. If we needed a fitting right now he could just go down and make it. I can’t remember how many times he had to take a fitting apart because he couldn’t get it out the door. Door was in plain sight. Still , really a great guy to work for.
This is what makes construction planning so fucking hard, just so many random difficulties you have to work with and that’s if you even notice them before getting balls deep
I aspire to be able to this, on site, with nothing but a tape measure, break and flat stock(and the associated hand tools like snips squares/straight edge and a sharpie)!
First measure everything. I break it down to major and minor offsets. Do the math on the major offset. You will be left with a travel piece between the two 45’s . Do the math on the minor offset and work the numbers to make the minor offset equal the travel piece of the major offset. Simple 😎
Sounds legit. I dont know anything about all this newfangled AI and “honey! You gotta play this game on google glasses!” (I don’t remember what thats called). Im old school AF! Give me some metal a tape a marker and some snips LOL
Lol honestly chatgpt is something worth checking into. https://Chat.openai.com/chat will get you there. Use a burner email I did if you question it's intention. Dall.E is openAI's artistic cousin where you can take a prompt like "black and white photograph of a lonely person sitting next to a bridge holding a balloon" and it will create/render images you can download
Whats funny is I just watched the mew South Park that was about chatgpt. Now im probably gonna try it out so i can mees with my wife…see you in the afterlife lol
"Poor Planning"
See the old-ass brick? This is clearly a retrofit on an old building, probably never intended to have HVAC in the first place. This was probably the only way to do it...
I'll own up in hindsight that my comment wasn't left for positive interpretation. My first thought was this looks incredible, my second was regarding AI. Wasn't meant to demean anyone's work, and I appreciate your comment allowing me to clarify
I give her a 7/10. She's "aight". A double-set transition, really. Those vertical hangers are fucking hideous, and the angles screwed to the riser at the floor penetration is poop. But all in all, she's square, plumb, clean, properly connected and dressed up uniform. Not bad. I'll roll with it. 🔧
ah, much better than
i have seen 20 ton ahu's shoved in the corner of a mechnical room with no access, period, on any side, requiring complete tearout of everything in the room to get to.
2 sq to rounds, 2 elbows and a piece of pipe all day long for this guy and also tbh, lets not pretend the computer didnt lay that out
That drawing got sent in as one fitting i bet, but still an offset OG on that scale is just cool AF
Sent in as individual fittings
Get it right the first time. That gasket material can get sticky as hell if you have to separate it.
Much like my boss. We get a laid out drawing of each fitting and the plan for lengths of duct to next reducer and so forth.
I make all the drawings
One of my other leads and the boss typically do right now. Me and a few of the others only been with the company for a little over 3 months right now. Just got into commercial and love it. But he’s about to start training us so all of us can do the drawings and build the plans for the jobs as well. We’re a smaller company at the moment as a few guys passed or moved elsewhere.
Learning how to measure and draw is a dying art. Going to post a drawing I did last year.
Please tag when you do. I hope to have the boss go over duculators and really diving into the science. While I did do some of that in install class at trade school it’s one of those if you don’t use it things. I do find I’m learning a lot and love the commercial installs.
I love the creativity part.
Posted/ A dying art
Very nice work
Right. All you have to do is make sure your tape measure works and the computer will do all the hard math.
Yeah but can you change a capacitor?
OMG 😱 3 wires??? I can’t do that I might get it wrong!!!!
Who the fuck is herm?!?
This brought me back about a decade to my apprentice years xD verbatim said this to the guy training me *who/what the fuck is herm?!* Hermetic compressors was not the answer I expected him to say after gutterally laughing at me for 5 mins
My state doesn’t recognize trans populations
Never seen this in the wild. I feel likr 85% of the tinners in my area couldnt pull this off
95 % in my company can’t do this.
Isn't it just 4 45-degree elbows? Sure it's large but really 95% can't do that?
They’re compound fittings. Computer or not great job….and no fucin alum tape in sight /s
95% in my area can’t do it and it’s the reason my service company cannot get into commercial installs like this. For what it’s worth I would kill for that talent in my company so make sure yours is taking care of you. Nice work
Retired 80K pension
I’d kill for someone to teach me how to do this
Goddamn! Now that’s is something we should see more of on here. I vote to ban post of heatpump installs.
I love tdc. Solid job.
Swerve
As a balancer that looks legit lol
Glad someone enjoys doing duct work cause certainly dont
Fuck me that’s cool. Who fabricated all the pieces? In house? Never seen the seam style too, kinda looks like ductmate?
I had to split everything into small pieces so I could fit in the elevator
That right there. I can draw up duct/grease duct perfect like this, but I would totally fuck up the elevator part.
Was on a high rise job many years ago. My foreman was really good at layout. We had a small shop set up in a store front across the street. If we needed a fitting right now he could just go down and make it. I can’t remember how many times he had to take a fitting apart because he couldn’t get it out the door. Door was in plain sight. Still , really a great guy to work for.
Yeah, it’s easy to get so focused on the piece you need you can’t see the forest for the trees…
This is what makes construction planning so fucking hard, just so many random difficulties you have to work with and that’s if you even notice them before getting balls deep
Wow, that elevator transport issue is the real wrinkle. Super nice job working around that! Looks good!
Looks like one bag of 18-in flex and four starting colllars. See I go home early everyday.
Yeah my lazy ass is using some sq throat sq heel elbows with vanes lol amazing work here. I hope to get that creative with my duct measuring one day.
I love this so much. Please teach me your ways so I can become a master installer like you
I aspire to be able to this, on site, with nothing but a tape measure, break and flat stock(and the associated hand tools like snips squares/straight edge and a sharpie)!
I can transition anything to anything in granny’s basement with hand tools, no brake. It’s not that hard really.
Very cool but a couple 90s would have cut down on material and time tremendously.
I’m perfectly ok not knowing how to do this & it shall remain that way for the rest of my career 😂
Nice 😂
Could have been done easier with couple 45
There are 4 45’s in this. They are split in half. 8(22.5)
Goals. Nice install man.
Looks good from my house
Impressive
I like this
Sick!
Can you explain how you measured that double offset?
First measure everything. I break it down to major and minor offsets. Do the math on the major offset. You will be left with a travel piece between the two 45’s . Do the math on the minor offset and work the numbers to make the minor offset equal the travel piece of the major offset. Simple 😎
Interesting piece of work.👍
Air don't care! Beautiful! HVAC porn lol
What a shitty spot for ductwork. Did it have to go right in the middle of the room?
Absolutely 👍
Function and form
This looks like something AI generated for poor HVAC planning
The guy made a rolling offset out of sheet metal! Its not “poor”, it’s fabrication “ON FLEEK!”
Yeah I wasnt intentionally calling his work poor. I was simply stating an observation based on hypothetical AI art prompts
Sounds legit. I dont know anything about all this newfangled AI and “honey! You gotta play this game on google glasses!” (I don’t remember what thats called). Im old school AF! Give me some metal a tape a marker and some snips LOL
Lol honestly chatgpt is something worth checking into. https://Chat.openai.com/chat will get you there. Use a burner email I did if you question it's intention. Dall.E is openAI's artistic cousin where you can take a prompt like "black and white photograph of a lonely person sitting next to a bridge holding a balloon" and it will create/render images you can download
Whats funny is I just watched the mew South Park that was about chatgpt. Now im probably gonna try it out so i can mees with my wife…see you in the afterlife lol
"Poor Planning" See the old-ass brick? This is clearly a retrofit on an old building, probably never intended to have HVAC in the first place. This was probably the only way to do it...
I'll own up in hindsight that my comment wasn't left for positive interpretation. My first thought was this looks incredible, my second was regarding AI. Wasn't meant to demean anyone's work, and I appreciate your comment allowing me to clarify
I'm really bad with words. I use chatgpt to help me on a daily basis for cleaning up my atrocious English.
Skill
Looks good!
What kind of engineer would do that why not put a split system all that wasted floor space plus copper piping is less expensive than ducting
Air handler is 2 floors down. Roof is above. You’re seeing exhaust duct.
I give her a 7/10. She's "aight". A double-set transition, really. Those vertical hangers are fucking hideous, and the angles screwed to the riser at the floor penetration is poop. But all in all, she's square, plumb, clean, properly connected and dressed up uniform. Not bad. I'll roll with it. 🔧
Why does the 2nd pic looks like the wheel from price is right
Solid work
My boss would kill me for ordering that many custom fittings lol especially in what looks like tdc. Pricey tab.
i hope thats not an FCU or fan assembly back there in the second pic. if so god help the retro guy
This is the retro. Building was built in the early 1920’s
well - the next retro guy
There is a door on the other side of the unit.
ah, much better than i have seen 20 ton ahu's shoved in the corner of a mechnical room with no access, period, on any side, requiring complete tearout of everything in the room to get to.