Happy Father’s Day & Johan on Air Conditioning

Jim starts by wishing his dad a Happy Father’s Day. He then brings his son Johan on to talk Conditioning. Jim also takes a call on hot water line leak and an answers a couple email questions.

Episode Transcript

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out same as always, any homeimprovement question you have, feel free to
pick up the phone, give mea call and hey, I'll see what
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it is Father's Day today, butwe're still here to take calls and answer
questions. I've been actually working onwell. I've said we're doing floors in
the house right now, so meand my son Johan, and my grandson
Charlie, who's five years old,have been working. I'm putting in the
floor and it amazes me how Charliecan look ahead and see what's got to

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be done as far as moving stuffout of the way and setting pieces into
place. It's gonna be a goodhandyman someday down the road, probably another
year or two from now as althoughyeah, I don't think it's gonna take
very long anyways. If you havea home improvement question seven one three two

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a home improvement question seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.
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what I can do to help youout here on Texas Home Improvement, your
total home improvement source. And I'mgoing to take this opportunity to wish my
dad a happy Father's Day. Youknow, I talk on Mother's Day about

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Mom and I working together to figurethings out to get jobs done, as
far as when we were remodeling rentproperties they had and stuff. But you
know, sometimes it's not in whatDad's tell you what it's what they don't
tell you. And my Dad's famousline that we all still throw back at

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him and tease them about it isI don't care how you do it,
just get it done, which meantwe had to figure out how to do
it. And you know, quitefrankly, that helped as much as anything
to be able to visualize when peoplecall in what the problem is and how
to address it. So Dad,Happy Father's Day. And for everybody who
knows him, who I get thisquestion quite often, Yes he is still

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alive. So happy Father's Day Dadagain. Seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. Anduh, I'm gonna bring Johan on for
for a minute here, because youknow the weather has been just unbelievably hot,
and as most people can predict,the calls for air conditioning have skyrocketed.

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And Johan, welcome back to TexasHome Improvement. Thank you. Now
I know the call The calls reallyspiked up starting what Wednesday or Thursday?
It was? Yeah, Thursday waswhen it really popped. Yeah. When
when when we started pushing the thetriple digits as far as the heat index

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because the humidity levels went up,temperatures went up, an ac started getting
stressed out. Yeah, I thinkwhat happened this year is that it was
relatively mild summer and then it wentfrom a mild spring yet mild spring,
to all of a sudden one hundreddegrees without much ramp up. So the

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systems that normally kind of peter areout over the course of a month or
so just all had a problem allat once. Yeah, we never we
didn't really have those ninety five toyou know, one hundred degree days.
It just all of a sudden wentfrom ninety to one hundred and one.
Yeah, it's probably been the busiestweek that I can remember since I started

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running this AC department. So rightnow, if somebody's having issues with their
air conditioning system, and obviously youknow it's it's a week end, a
lot of texts are already busy,there's limited texts available. What can a
homeowner do in order to help getto Monday, well tomorrow. It's amazing

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how many houses that we go tothat it's nothing more than a dirty filter
or maybe a reset of a breaker. And those are things that as a
homeowner you can definitely look for,is seeing if you get a fresh filter
in there, and if you tryto cycle the system on and off that
may turn it back on. Okay, well you mentioned a tripped breaker cycling.

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The system is not going to fixthat though, Well it's there's been
some power searches because the system isstrained so much that it's been surging at
people's houses and so we're seeing alot of that right now. Okay,
so they need to go to theirbreaker panel and reset it or is it
an internal that when they shut thesystem down and turn it back on,

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its automatically. No, no,at the breaker panel. Okay, okay,
So the secondary thing that people arefinding their coolant levels are low the
system ice is up. That's right. Well, you can put a charge
in there to try to get toa well, you can have somebody put

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a charge in there to try toget to where you can get a replacement
part. But there's not an easyfix really for a do it yourself or
when you start getting refrigerant leaks,right, I mean, the first thing
you need to do is if it'siced up, shut the system down and
let it thaw out. I mean, otherwise you're just gonna make matters worse

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and run the risk of burning upyour compressor. So beyond that, yeah,
you're you're going to be facing havingto bring a tech out in order
to take care of the the issueand get the right coolants in there.
Now. Yes, yesterday, whenI was broadcasting from Florida Core, I

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had someone stopped by and talk withme. In fact, we had her
on the air. She was havingan issue where AC companies were telling her
she needed to replace her system simplybecause our twenty two wasn't available anymore.
Well, that's definitely not true.Yeah, that's what I told her.

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Yeah, and I'm going to repeatthis today because I know it's a different
audience on Sunday. Our twenty twois still readily available. Yes, they
can't make it anymore, but thateverybody knew that the date was coming where
they couldn't manufacture it. The manufacturersproduced a bunch of it thinking they would

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get a gold mine out of it. They got more on their in their
hands now than what they anticipated.And quite frankly, the cost of our
twenty two has come down from whenit was at its peak after they put
the band on it, because nowthey're starting to be stuck with some of
it, trying to get rid ofit, and so it has come down
a little bit So if you dohave in our twenty two system and it

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still working good and just needs somefree on put into it, put it
in. Don't let somebody tell youyou have to replace it over that.
But keep in mind the only reasonit's low one coolant, it's got a
leak somewhere, and so you probablyare looking at needing to replace it before

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too long. So yo one,But one last thing before I got to
take a break, here is thecost of AC systems. Over the last
twelve months, they have just skyrocketedin price from the manufacturers. Has that

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slowed down any yet? Yes,a lot of post COVID everybody was saying
supply chain issues, supply chain issues, and so we went from having maybe
two price increases a year to duringthat twenty twenty one timeline having more like
five price increases a year both ofthose years. But they've stayed relatively stable

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for at least six months now.So everybody needed to gear up to cycle
into the new twenty twenty three seerstandards. But once that happened, it's
it's been fairly stable. Now.Okay, all right, well I'm gonna
get ready and take a quick littlebreak here and we'll come back with more

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That's seven one three, two,one two five eight seven four and again,
any home improvement question you have,feel free to pick up the phone,
give me a call and I'll seewhat I can do to help you
out here on Texas Home Improvement UYO one with regarding air conditioning. I
got one more question for you.Uh, I mean, shut Charlie off

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there, Okay. You know sometimesI have people who call in and they're
trying to bring their house down tosixty eight and you know, sometimes even
as low as sixty three degrees,and they have a hard time understand why
the system won't do it. Now, I always sound, look, you're

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gonna you should get down into themid seventies, but you're not gonna.
It's not designed to, especially inthis heat, to get down into the
mid sixties. That's right. There'sa couple of pieces to doing load sizing
on equipment. One of them istrying to satisfy the heat load, which
is the heat from the outside tryingto radiate in. The other is the

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humidity and trying to balance those two. You have to pick a coil that's
going to both cool but also ringthe heat out of the air. So
if you try to go too big, some people just intuitively think, let
me just go bigger so I cankeep it cooler. Well, if you
go too big, you'll lose yourability to get the humidity out of the
air. So it's important to getthe right size. The problem with that

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is that a manual j load calculationis designed for ninety five degree outside air
temperature at fifty percent relative humidity,and so when we hit these one two
hundred and five degree days outside,we're now exceeding the loads that that house
system was designed to be able tohold. And so those are normally calculated

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with an indoor set point of betweenseventy two and seventy five degrees. So
you could imagine if you've got atwenty degree differential between the indoor and outdoor
on your load calculation, if youroutdoor goes up five degrees, your indoors
going to go up five degrees too, So you may only be cooling down
to eighty degrees inside on a reallyhot day, and that's all the system

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is going to be able to giveyou. Now, that's one benefit to
doing something like a true variable speedsystem, because in those kind of system
archetypes, you can oversize a coil. Some they come in only one one
ton increments instead of half ton increments, so you can oversize it and it'll

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still be able to account for thatand keep the humidity low while also satisfying
those really really hot days outside.Okay, and what about the dual speed
on a two stage compressor on theoutside, dual speed fans and such for

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humidity control? Oh yeah, yeah, So in our kind of system types
that we build routinely, I putin a lot of true variable speed,
but also we put in a lotthat just have a two stage compressor outside
and have a variable speed blower inside, and that can also help do the

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humidity control. And those come inone ton increments as well. Okay,
all right, Well, I'm gonnajump onto a call here real quick is
to hang on there and uh,let's see here seven one three, two,
one two five eight seven four Chrisand Alvin, Welcome to seven forty
KRH. How can I help you? Yes, Jim, I've recently had

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a week and a car affiance comforthot water lines and the plumber that ended
up fixing call. My attention tothe fact that there's a lot of blue
green around the soldering right, andI'm concerned that this is the thing to

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be everywhere else in the house.Twenty two years old had it built.
But can you tell me is itworth my time to get someone to fight
my house or should I try tofind the local the places that could eventually

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leak in house again that I mustmyself. Yeah, but let me ask
you a quick question. I mean, it's twenty two years old. I'm
making the assumption this is the firstleak. Correct, yes, sir,
this is and what leaked the hotwater line going to a lavatory in the

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bath? But was it a jointor was it the pipe itself just sprung
a hole in it or what?You know? It was right down scream
an inch down, scream of anelbow. Okay, in the half inch.
You know, I assumed it wasa velocity problem. Yeah. You

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know a lot of people don't realize, but you know, water running through
a pipe will put wear on it. And it's one of the reasons that
you don't hear me recommend recirculating systemsstay on all the time so people have
hot water, because it literally willwear out the pipe. I mean that
that little river that's in the bottomof the Grand Canyon made the Grand Canyon

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right, So just like the waterwill wear the shorelines, it will where
the sides of your pipe. Withthat being said, I don't think the
green that you're seeing is going tocause you a major issue anytime soon.
Will it? Over time? Causeleaks. Yes, but we're probably talking

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not just years, but probably decadesfrom now. Well, hear what you're
saying. The plumber that fixed it, that people that originally installed it didn't
wipe whatever treatment they did to thetubing prior to making the solder connection.

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They didn't wipe that at all.And so I'm assuming it's throughout the house
where there was another connection of thewell, and you're correct, it probably
is throughout the house that way,or at least several of the joints,
because there was more more than likelymore than one person doing the soldering when

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the house was built. Typically asthere's going to be two or three of
them out there, you know,solder everything together. So can it happen
again, Absolutely, But be honestwith you, and we do a lot
of replumbing of houses, I wouldnot recommend that you replumb it at this
time. If it starts, ifit happened again, then yes, I
would say, hey, you probablyneed to go ahead and replumb it.

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But typically advertisements for company that aboutand pipes the house, right, is
that the same thing you guys do? Oh yeah, yeah, we do
the same thing. Okay. IfI ask for somebody to come out and
give me an estimate. Yeah,you asked for Alton to come out,

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and he'll come out, take alook and go over at all with you.
Give me that first name again,please, Alton A L. T
O N. And what is thename of the company? Do West?
Do you dash West? And youcan reach him at seven one three four
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three zero zero four yep. Thankyou very much. You bet you
take care And with that we're gonnatake a break for news, traffic and
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Texas. It's not here to behere, it's Jim Dutton. Hey,
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at them to last, how longyou want to use when such and Johan,
one of the things I did wantto address with you is at due

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West, we are offering some reallygreat extended warranties. I mean ten year
parts in labor now, that's right. Yeah, we um recognize that in
the industry, the industry is movinga lot towards the tenure labor warranty so
we made the decision to match that. So you can get now a complete

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system installed with the tenure essentially bumperto bumper equipment plus labor with from the
factory. A twelve year on yourcompressor in a ninety nine year on your
heat exchanger. So, but onecaveat on that that equipment has got to
be registered in order to receive that. And so it amazes me how many

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companies don't bother registering their equipment.Yeah, so if you don't do the
registration, it'll come with a fiveyear per the label on the side of
the box. But we register andthen send those registrations to the homeowner every
time so that they feel confident thatthat equipment has been registered. Okay.
So and yeah, I don't knowif you can answer this question, but

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ninety nine years on the heat exchange. The rest of the unit doesn't last
that long, and when you goto change out the system twenty years from
now, it's going to need adifferent heating system. So where's this ninety
nine years gonna Well, it's uh, it's so that they can define an

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actual number to rather than just sayinglifetime. Okay. So, in some
of the product literature it says lifetimewarranty, but when you actually look at
the registration material, that's ninety nineyears that you're getting there, got you.
But that being said, especially inthe Houston market, we have much
more of a cooling season than wehave a heating season. So it's not
uncommon for somebody to go through twooutdoor unit condensers and two indoor evaporator coils

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before they actually need to replace afurnace, unless, of course, they
want to upgrade to the newest efficiency. Right. Okay, so I mentioned
when we started the show we've beenworking on putting in the floors, and
Johanna and I have been working onIn fact, we didn't stop working on

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it until five after and the showstarted at six after. But our third
wheel, who's been helping us,has been dying to get on the radio
and say something. So Charlie,yes, what did you have to tell
us you wanted to talk on theradio? You're on? Well that was

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a nice way to keep them,boy, it wasn't it. Maybe I'll
start by saying Happy Father's Day myself. Oh well, thank you. You
want to tell your dad Happy Father'sDay? Okay, I'm gonna shut your
mic back off now, Charlie.All right, So again, if you

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got a home improvement question seven onetwo one two five eight seven fom,
we'll see what we can do tohelp you out here on Texas Home Improvement
again seven one three two one twofive eight seven four And Johan, since
I have you here, I havea email question that did come in and

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it's actually in the Dallas area littleElm but from Pam, and she says,
I moved into a house last Augustin twenty twenty two. A month
or six weeks later, I kepthearing this boom boom sound in one of
my spare bedrooms, which is alsoon the other side of the garage.
I talked to one of the foremanof the development and he said, it

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is some kind of fan in theattic and I need to call the HVAC
installer to come out and look atit, which I did. The HVAC
technician went into the attic and hesaid he unplugged or disconnected whatever it was.
Now I'm concerned maybe I should havehave them reconnected. Do you know

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what this is and what it does? Thanks for your input, Pam.
Now, it obviously could be sometype of exhaust. Man, But I'm
betting because this is a newer home, you know, built in twenty twenty
two, it's probably an encapsulated house. And I'll bet you that's the intake.

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Absolutely, Yeah, forced air fromoutside. And what that guy just
did is caused this lady a problemthat's gonna start plaguing this house with humidity.
Yeah, because that you have tohave a certain amount of air infiltration
in order to have a healthy house. And when you have a house that's
so well sealed up that all thewindows are tight and the insulation in the

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walls is tight, you have tohave supplemental ventilation to provide an appropriate amount
of airflow in that house. Andthat's also the reason I always talk about
foaming the walls, leave the atticwhere it's breathable, because that helps with
that problem as well. But definitely, if you've got one of those fans

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that's in there for bringing in freshair into the system, it's there for
a reason. And yes, itdoes need to be hooked back up,
Pam, And you know if thefans making noise, it's not a complicated
change out to get it working likeit should. And given that this house

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is as new as it is,it should be under warranty still at this
point, I would also input thata lot of HVAC texts do that kind
of procedure all the time because theydon't necessarily understand the engineering behind it.
They know the operations of how atraditional system is operated, but these are

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take a little bit more advanced engineeringto understand the airflow changes that are needed
in a house of that type.Well, at the very least, they
have to go through the continuing educationclasses to learn about these new systems.
That's right. You know, there'sa lot of trades that have the old
school way of thinking, and whenyou're getting into the AC world, we

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always got to keep up with thetimes because we're the evolution of our technology
is ever changing because of the standardsof energy efficiency that are required upon us,
and so if you don't keep upwith those changes, then with these
new home developments, so politically correct. Now, see the way I would
have said that is you've you've gotto keep up with all the changes because

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the EPA and the government and theirinfamite wisdom want to keep changing the rules
and moving the line, and wegot to keep up with where they're moving
things to right. Ron are indifferent, They're moving it absolutely. Yep.
Even just as something that is asroutine to to my team as a variable
speed system is out of reach ofa lot of quote unquote old school guys

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that don't stay up with the currenttechnology because it does take some special training
to understand how to work on thosesystems. Well, and I know I
got to take a break here,but you know you bring that up a
lot of times. Homeowners will bringup well, I don't want to put
that in because the system is toocomplicated and too much can break down.

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But those systems, one of thenice things a bottom is they can actually
be monitored off site to know whena problem is approaching as well. Yeah,
you know how vehicles of previous generationsthey would just come up with an
engine light and you wouldn't know whatit is. And then the cars of
today, when you are driving downthe road, it'll if it has an

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error, it'll actually explain to youwhat that error is. Maybe it's a
tire that's low on the front leftside. Yeah, I'm tired of getting
the text from one of the salesguys. It's driving them one of the
malibus that keeps texting me that it'sgot a low tire. But that's a
different story. But yes, goahead. But for us, the technology
of today, there as sensors inthose systems that we can diagnose the problems

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from our office chairs, and whenthey come out in site, they can
they can read on their screens exactlywhere the problem is. So you don't
spend time with the guy trying todiagnose and figure it out, and you
also spend less time down because we'renotified. It may understand that there's an

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issue before the homeowner even understands there'san issue. Well, I would I
would make the assumption that helps withhaving the right parts when you go out
as well. Absolutely, So I'lltell you what I got to take a
quick break. If you've got ahome improvement question seven one three two one
two five eight seven four, Andit doesn't have to be a question about
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their head in the sand and say, oh, I don't want to deal
with this right now, I'll dealwith it later, And later turns into
a month, a year, fiveyears, and before you know it,
that little problem that could have beensolved with preventative maintenance is now a full
blown foundation problem that requires underpinning.You know, when people call early enough,

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you don't have to do full blownfoundation repair. You do some root
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to Texas Home Improvement. Home improvementadvice, tips and information for you and
your mama. Here's Jim dot Hey, welcome back. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven fourThat seven one three, two, one
two five eight seven four let's seehere, Johan, We had an email

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come in six minutes ago about airconditioning. It's from Thomas and he's in
Garland actually, but he says,what is the main cause of temperature variation
from the AC events? In myhouse? I have some vents that blow
colder and they are further away fromthe unit than others that are closer.
Could it be an issue with theducks or possibly a blower motor issue?

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Any suggestions on who I might contact? So why would the further away ducks
or vents be blowing colder than theclose ones? A couple things come to
mind. One, there's different typesof insulation ratings for ducting, and so

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if somebody accidentally threw some return insulationon a supply side, that's could be
heating up a lot in the attic. Another big one is that not everybody
does a great job of putting togethera supply planum and so you have to
get some lament or airflow off ofthat blower and down that duct run before

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you start splitting off and go indifferent directions with the air. So when
people are reusing ducting or maybe theyare doing some crazy sizing to get a
coil fit up to a blower froma furnace, those don't always get very

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good airflow off of them. That'swhy we when we put a system in,
we're putting in a coil that boltsright up to the furnace, and
then we're putting in a new supplyplenum that's coming directly off of the other
side of the coil that's the exactsame size to fit up to it.
Can you use the duck work,but the plenum you change out, that's
right. Yeah. Now, oneother thing that can cause it is as

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the duck work ages, depending onwhat type of duck work it is,
sometimes it starts splitting open. Yeah, there's Yeah, there's a lot of
ways to get the connections wrong becauseyou've got to connect the inner liner and
seal that up and then put theouter insulation around it and seal that up
too. So there's a lot ofplaces where eric can get sucked into that.

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Yeah. So really, what whatdoes which what they need to do
is have a technician come out takea look and see you know where the
make sure that one that the duckwork is all in good shape and two
then check the flow pressures and thingslike that to make sure that it's getting

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the proper air flow, not justthat the duck work looks good. That's
right. And yeah, you cangive due West air Conditioning you call,
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Improvement with Jim dot All. Right, yohun like a man said, it
ain't gonna fix itself. So howlong you think it's gonna take us to
finish that room that we're working on? Oh? An hour? Do you
think we'll do it in an hour? I think so. That's good because
that's the same time frame I wasthinking as well. But before we get

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back to working on the room there, I do want to take a moment
to wish all the dad's out therea happy Father's Day. And John happy
father, say to you, Charlieis your son. He's my grandson,
but he is he is your son, So a happy fathers say. And
again, I'd like to wish mydad a happy Father's Day. And Adam,

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my son, my second son,who is expecting right now, even
though he's not a father yet,we'll wish him a happy pending Father's Day.
As well, and you don't forall the dad's out there, you
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dad. So you know, putin the effort work with your kids.
Teach them, but make them workbecause that teaches them for a lifetime.
With that, have a good oneand we will visit again next Saturday and
Sunday, starting at two o'clock righthere on seven forty ktrh. On before

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we go, let's talk about DueWest plumbing. We've already talked about foundation
repair and they're conditioning, you know, if you're having a plumbing problem,
And we did talk a little bitabout it with the guy who had the
leaking copper line. Look a lotof times it's nothing more than that copper
line was leaning against the nail andthe dissimilar medals touch each other. And

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that's the reason I tell you don'tget in too bigger rush to replumb the
whole house because you have a singleleak. But that's how we approach everything
at due West. We'd look atit from our customer's point of view.
Keep in mind, we do teachour guys the house is the customer.
You just have the privilege of payingthe bill. But by looking at it
that way, we're going to dowhat's right for the home, whether you

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still own it or you sell thehome. To keep everybody on an even
keel and keep everybody out of trouble. So if you've got plumbing problems,
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