You see a lot of strange stuff laboring in the HVAC industry, however i am not just talking about the people who answered their door with hardly any clothes on either.
I am mostly talking about the do-it-yourself repair attempts where the homeowner try to save currency by fixing something.
This generally fails and they end up having to call out the HVAC professionals, love myself, in the end. Unluckyly, a bunch of do-it-yourselfers end up doing more destruction to their HVAC method and it would have been better if they had just called us out for the original issue, then this makes my job harder too. Not only do I now have more issues to fix, but I also have to worry about broken and missing pieces and trying to figure out exactly what the homeowner did to mess up their HVAC method that badly; Regular HVAC breakdowns are usually pretty straight-forward, but you just back track the problem until you find the solution. That’s not constantly the case with the do-it-yourself issues. There was this one do-it-yourselfer who used plastic plumbing pipes instead of HVAC duct. I could tell that there used to be HVAC duct in his lake house although he had ripped it all out and put in 3” PVC pipes instead. There were several layers of duct tape attaching the pipes to the HVAC Vents and the Machine itself. The homeowner did not understand why his HVAC method was not cooling and it used to. I told him both of us needed to replace all of the HVAC duct and he got livid and refused to let myself and others do that, he just wanted myself and others to repair his HVAC system. I eventually ended up leaving separate from doing any work at all because I could not repair his HVAC method separate from fixing the HVAC duct.