What Are The New Technologies In Heating and Air?

On the Check A Pro Radio Show today a listener called in with the following question - "What Are The New Technologies In Heating and Air?"

So another great question.  Here to answer that question is a heating and air conditioning expert, Brandon Day from Daycool Heating & Air.

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
I love talking to home service professionals today because there's so many things that are new technology changes all the time and in the air conditioning world there's changes constantly.
Brandon Day is joining me from Day,
cool heating and air to talk to us about new technologies.

(00:22):
Hello,
Brandon,
How are you?
Great to have you here?
Ok.
So there's always something new and,
and,
and I'll,
I'll preface this by saying you go back,
I don't know,
50 years and there was always advancements in H VAC technology.
But I think there's more and more now because as we get smarter and more technical,

(00:47):
we're able to grow from that last point and go up.
So what are some of the new technologies available for people in their home in terms of air conditioning?
Kinda,
you know,
they're always trying to integrate anything really like Amazon products,
anything into air conditioning,
but as far as actual stuff that would help,

(01:09):
that's not been around a long time.
Well,
it's been around but nobody knows about it as a product we offer like it's for duct ceiling,
it's called aero seal.
And essentially the best way to explain it.
And that's how we,
we explain to customers.
It's like fix a flat for your duct work.
Oh,
we're able to seal duct work in an existing home without demolishing sheet rock and,

(01:32):

making a lot of what's the best way to say it would be,
inconveniencing the customer moving stuff in the home,
moving,
you know,
having to move everything out of the house,
do duct work,
put it back,
what have,
And it's actually,
you know,
in a new,
new construction home,
you have to seal or your duck has to be so tight to a certain percentage in our area.

(01:53):
We're able to seal past that requirement in an existing home.
So how do you do that?
It's got a machine that hooks for the duck work long.
I mean,
the,
the best way to explain it is a bit.
We have it all built in a trailer and you have to run this big plastic,
lay flat tubing all the way to the duc system and it has uh um instruments,
I guess would be the easiest thing to say in a,

(02:15):
in a there's a process to it,
it essentially is pumping this mist of glue through it,
it it through the duct system and it has to leak to seal.
So,
meaning we pressurize the duct,
you pump this glue and you can see it leaking everywhere.
So it clots at the cuts at the,
at the,
at the leaks like blood.
But at a,
at a cut,
you can't line the whole duct work or you would create resistance which would slow air down.

(02:40):
So this only seals the,
the holes and you,
we,
you,
you're able to measure the CFM,
which is how much air is,
is lost with the machine.
And I mean,
a basketball of air losing is the average,
um,
lost when we're,
when we're doing these existing homes and we're able to seal that up.

(03:02):
It takes about five hours but it's,
it's way more affordable than a $10,000 duck system.
And,
and it can add you,
you're not introducing the dust and humidity into the home as well.
Not only,

it's,
it's more of a comfort thing but the equipment doesn't run as often because it's not adding that excess,
excess humidity.

(03:25):
Yeah.
No,
that's a great alternative to having to rip everything out.
,
it's,
it's,
it's a dirty,
messy job to do that.
You may have to break into the walls to do that in many instances.
And then you got the waste,
meaning now you gotta throw all that stuff out and start over.
So it saves money.

(03:45):
It's gonna ultimately save time and waste.
And what I like about it too,
it sounds as though it's going to be even probably better than installing new duct work because it's gonna fill every possible hole to begin with.
So you're able to keep the existing structure of it and fix any possible leak.

(04:05):
And what I mean by that everybody is when you have a new duct system put in ok.
By the average HVAC company,
there could be some minor leaks in it to begin with,
right?
We actually,
we've had to do it,
the new construction,
you know,
you have to pass the duck test here.
So builders are calling in to do it just so they can seal to get the inspection passed so they can move on and,

(04:29):
and get the house sold.
Interesting,
interesting stuff.
Brandon.
Thank you so much for joining me today here on the program and answering these questions.
No,
thank you.