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16 minutes and so much explanation that will never turn a low class bad customer into an understanding one. But I guess it may sway the decent ones that may just be a little ignorant. There are people out there who would deny anyone and everyone an honest living if they could. If they had the drive and ability, and weren’t just talk they would learn about auto mechanics, hvac, plumbing, carpentry, appliances and fix it all themselves, all the while in spite of being the local grocer or something complaining that his business is slow because nobody can afford the groceries since he took all their jobs. This was clearly a sensationalized narrative, many times these people aren’t grocers or offer much of anything back to the general public! 😂

You can probably save on that after hours call center by just forwarding voicemail messages to the on-call tech! It still doesn’t mean that tech doesn’t deserve time and a half round trip pay for getting dragged out after hours so your customer still has to pay. 😂 Never blow your customers off with your techs lips, or your own for that matter!

You lost me at Lennox😂😂

That is the cost of doing business. In years past businesses took out ads in newspapers weekly. They purchase billboards. They had flyers in marriage mail. The website you’re doing now is far less expensive. Explain to me how going out and putting a capacitor in that cost $12-$15 can justify a $500 bill to homeowner? i’ve heard them on the weekend at night in a senior neighborhood to be charged $2000. That is criminal.

I appreciate the info you put in here man. It’s discouraging to see all the comments from people that either don’t seem to understand or don’t want to understand…but that’s a problem that will iron itself out in a few years. Between R22 and R410A being phased out, The average homeowner and DIYer is going to be in for a nasty reawakening with everything going full-on communicating, VFD and inverter-driven systems for the sake of efficiency. People complain about pricing now calling it a “ripoff” but I honestly believe it will come to a point where the average homeowner simply isn’t going to be able to afford to have unsubsidized cooling and heating.

I'm having this same problem with my board.

I just had my gas valve replaced because I was having same issue.. New one worked, but stopped firing up due to low voltage.. everything replaced and worked... 2 weeks later... same issue.. and will only fire up when I tap on the gas valve where the wires go into it

I’ve been interested in this little guy for a little while, and finally picked one up at grainger today. I’m hoping that I can remove my wire strippers from my tool bag to save up a bit of space. Thanks for the review man, it was super helpful!

The homeowner, the keyboard warrior, googlers, and non professional always knows more than the actual professional business/ service tech. All those associated business costs are expected. Charge accordingly ! When i have to pay for services, i have to pay.(bank fees, cell/cable, insurances, vehicle,taxes, milk, school, tools, training, etc) Big businesses have multiple buildings, CEOs making millions, private booths at stadiums, jets/super yachts. These folks complain that i want to be able to have a home, pay my bills on time, family vacations, and a retirement plan. Know your numbers, charge accordingly ! You have an electrical/ mechanical fault. The investment to make you happy. Comfortable, safe again will be $xxxx. Never give them the opportunity to order part online. If you diagnose it, and they refuse you to do. And they fix themselves, If they get shocked, cause a fire, or additional damage, They will have a lawyer/ law enforcement following up with you because you "the professional" told them what was wrong. Be smart. Know your worth. Charge accordingly.

Looks OK but I am wondering whether the load rating (500lb) is true when legs are extended. I need to know if it will hold the weight of a 140-150lb laundry dryer when I lift it off the washing machine to do a repair on the washing machine. Anybody know for sure please?

So I had an issue with my furnace this year. Turns out the inducer motor wasn't initiating, and the board on the gas valve controlled this. I was quoted 950 before taxes to replace this part, and so I declined and did some more research. The part was 350 online, so I bought it along with materials and two pipe wrenches, all equaling around 450. It took me about 2 hours to fix the issue. Overall, I paid 90 for the service call and 450 for the fix. I can not understand why it would cost around 500 for 2 hours of labor. You could say 4 hours total for a technician to get the call, diagnose the issue, and fix it.

Excess charges is why I repair my own HVAC. I maintain spare parts and replace before they fail. Such as motors at ten years of service. Capacitors every year with made-in-USA.

Thanks @Honesthvacguy, you saved me a ton of money and headaches! I had a cracked and leaking condensate pan on my furnace, exactly like the one you replaced in this video. The company that installed the furnace wanted over $1000 to do the exact repair you did in your video in 50 minutes. I couldn't stomach that, so got online, found the part, and got it delivered for $160. However, after I installed it, the thing had a very, very loud whistle, so loud I could hear it a block away. So I thought I had gotten a defective part, and was going to try to get another one. (It still would have whistled, though, I'm sure.) The key was to remove that yellow disc in the inducer motor intake, as you showed in the video. For some reason that restrictor disc doesn't cause a whistle with the old transparent yellow pan, but it sure does with the black replacement pan! After I watched the video, I took out the inducer motor, removed the disc, and presto, the whistle was gone. I originally didn't want to do this job myself. If the HVAC company had given me a reasonable price, I would happily have let them do the repair, but their quote was outrageous, and I knew it. Needless to say, I won't be giving them my business any more. Thank you again for your video!

Where does the filter go

So im getting 9 flashes. But the pressure switch is fine. Swapped with the switch with my main floor unit (same unit). Swapped thermostats and bases. Still getting 9 flashes. Ideas?

Where is your ground connected to from the multimeter

When the AC guy gave my friend an itemized bill with a $10 replacement parts, but charge $147 for small debris removal and hosing the overheated unit with water, couldn't help but say "that's a fat load of surge price huh?". Can't help but feel ripped off.

My number 1 call for HVAC is this sole proprietor that has a stocked van. No other expenses that I don't care about. He has decades of experience. All the stuff you rattled off in this video ensures that I understand very little of my money goes into the repair....most of it is paying for a bloated operation that has nothing related to what I need.

Still overpriced. $20,000 for a 4T American Standard complete system? Nope. Roughly $8,000 for the equipment alone. $12,000 for everything else. Bs

how do you find c wire

My furnace starts up and when it comes time to ignite the burners, it trips the circuit breaker at the fuse box and of course shuts down. What could be the cause of this?

They’re not overprice if you have no idea how to fix your system and we do. You’re paying for our efficiency, knowledge, experience, and usually we have the parts on our van. Some people are just cheap scapes.

What is the wood looking surface made of on this Disston OmniTable? I bought one from Wintools that is made of shoe-box board.

Some of these AC companies are horrible !the customer is at their mercy,they ping pong all over with the cost 💲 when you call them and they says the price is s amount you say I can’t pay that they suddenly go down to another price so in the first place why can’t you give the customer a fair price? Rather playing games

Where is the UL lamp located in this system? Thanks

Nice tools but you suck

We have an ML180 but our trouble-code panel appears to be different, odd. Have an issue with 4 blinks, which is said to be the high limit switch. But testing it’s voltage (one sided ~28v and both (close to 0v drop) it check out fine, same with resistance (close to 0 ohm) and continuity (has continuity). But the furnace will run for anywhere from 5-30 min then shut off. I think eventually it goes into lockout and won’t run at all until rebooted. Any suggestions ?

I see that the table ends are a bit thin. Would I be able to use a table vise with this?

Nice. Make so easy, I came across the same problem. Had to get my senior tech on it, couldn’t get the bit*% to stay on

What does solid red mean?

My lenox gas got check he said the second motor is dead and wants to replace the whole furnace, it’s 10 years old!

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Great work! Las Vegas will benefit your talent!

pretty sick standing jumps you did, you should do par-core

Well said brother! Keep it up man!

Don’t forget that the technician gets hourly pay for lots of hours that he didn’t bill. Maybe it’s slow. Maybe he takes holidays and vacations. Maybe he spends time working in the shop. Non billable hours. And then what profit you do get to keep, you split that with Uncle Sam! And the one tax that makes me the maddest is the county taxes that charge by the sales price no matter what your expenses were! And most people buy a hammer and they pay a tax when they buy it. We have to pay taxes on that hammer each and every year! And then you have to pay your cpa thousands and thousands to figure what your taxes will be! Plus you got payroll taxes too and you gotta pay for the payroll. I did like your video though. I like you too. I’d love to hire someone like you!

Costco now has it for 59 dollars.

No wonder Internet sales for those HVAC parts and equipments are booming. Let's take an example, if Amazon is using that method and passing the cost to customers, you will never be able to buy an item for $30 dollars delivered to your door, imaging all the men hrs put in just to deliver an item to your door, not to mention the cost of running a amazon company and the cost of making the item. You can't just use that method to justify the marked up price. All those costs are called an investment into a business, and hopefully there is profit at the end. Anyway, I hope that kind of marked up business model is working out for HVAC industry, because when things are getting expensive and unaffordable, people will look for alternatives such as learning and servicing their HVAC equipment themself. It's not that hard.

I’m of the mindset, “who am I to say what a companies operating costs are”. If you don’t like the price, shop around. Fuel isn’t free, the guys time isn’t free, hell they don’t even care that with fuel costs currently, my guys time, the offices time, what I had to pay for the lead (through Yelp or Google) I am into a service call $65 minimum out of pocket without factoring in any subscriptions, operating costs etc etc.

Having a/c is luxury

Why didn’t you include your vacation cost, daycare for your kids, family expenses, food, etc., into charging 10x to the homeowner. 😞

Company i work for charges $150 PER 1 LBS of refrigerant, whether its r421a in place of r22 or r410a. What do you think of that? Its flat rate, so it has its time built into the "task" I see what the cost is for it per lbs, it seems high to me for 1 lbs refrigerant though. Anyone in hvac tell me what you think about that price.

I love when a homeowner calls and before even telling you the problem they are having, they ask you how much will it cost to come out, and when you tell them your diagnostic fee they say “they’ll call you back”. The best is when you diagnose a homeowners faulty part and give them the cost of the part and they turn their phone around to show you how much cheaper they can get the part for on Amazon. My all time favourite is when you’ve competed your job, invoiced and collected the homeowner says, “hey, while your here would you just mind checking” and expect a free service of something else.

I don't think I'll get an answer on this 3 years after the video, but how did you jumper the call for heat if you threw the wire in your toolbag and then replaced the access panel preventing you from touching it?

$300 cap.. I guess I need to up my prices😂

Thanks got me working on one of the coldest days. Simple fix - no service call. Great video!

I don't think you mentioned the tools involved in troubleshooting and repairing the problem. Or the company having to pay federal taxes or workers compensation for each employee on top of offering health benefits. Don't forget about QuickBooks and paying your bookkeeper. The list goes on and on

What a shame to trash that 35 year old beauty with all the bells and whistles when you can buy a universal RobertShaw or Honeywell intermittent spark controller all day long on ebay or Amazon for under a hundred bucks. And here I sit with my rusty old faithful stripped down version of your Lennox G12. Geez!

Thank you, the problem I had waking up with 5 inches of snow on the ground and no heat is now wondering who to have do my servicing. Not wanting any of the big companies do it, want to help small business any time I can! They take customer service to heart because your satisfaction does more than any amount of advertising they can afford!!!

My system is not working, DOSENT even start