Derek Cole and workshop participants explain why HVAC units fail: dirt and dust on coils and filters act as insulators and reduce efficiency. Replace air filters every 30 days, even if they look clean. They also cover installation details like building rain diverters and ensuring watertight gaskets to protect units from moisture.
What exactly was that? A bug. Put it on a video.
Say, this is a girl fighting a bug. The main problem we see in these Season is dirt. Dirt is the biggest cause of most spray downs. So it goes back to changing your filter, checking your filter, make sure your unit's clean, tuned up before the season starts, because most of the breakdowns we go to are dirt related.
You know, when we deal with integrated circuitry in the studio, you can actually create a chain, like a wire almost, a connection with dust.
Right.
It can just— the electricity, and you can arc something out and blow something just because it was dirty.
Yeah, because heating and air is all about heat transfer. So if you have dust, dirt, or anything on that coil that's trying to transfer heat, it is going to act as an insulator. It's going to prevent it from being as efficient as it usually is. So therefore, it's harder to cool or harder to heat, and then it's going to work harder and things are going to go out.
How often should you be changing out your air filters in your home?
You need to check them every 30 days.
Every 30 days.
Also a common problem is I've heard before, my filter does not get dirty, so I don't need to change it. Well, that's also a problem because that means the air is not going through the filter, it's bypassing the filter, and the unit is getting air which is unclean, unfiltered, and dirty air into the system. So check your filter every 30 days, change it, make sure it can breathe again. The unit, especially in this last heat, is running a marathon, so you want it to breathe You don't want it to breathe up a straw and have to suffer. It's going to break down.
Way out to the sides with the folds in and make sure we watertight this right here with the gasket and make this rain diverter and make it direct the rain down. I didn't— I did it to try to prevent how to make a 3-sided shroud is what I was trying to do.
Yeah, what do you think? Before he gets too far along, I think that's fine. It's just that heavy rain from above, I think we just put a rain diverter I don't think we need another. Put another one there. No, just a diverter on the top.
On the top of this?
Yeah, right here, just to prevent direct rain. Because anything that hits the side here shouldn't be at, you know, that's the case.
You don't need to make this like this unless you want them.
And I want them like that because it still could condense, like on a dewy morning, fog or something. Still want to roll them back this way, see what I'm saying? But when heavy rain hits, I don't want to put pressure on it.
Yeah, you only get two of them? No, just one of them. But what happened to the other one, you think?
We never had one in the Badlock Construction.
No, we had one, so we had to have it. Maybe we borrowed Tate's. That's possible. The service toolkit comes with it. That's expensive.
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