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Glad You decided to buy your own tools and DIY. this units is so small you don't need them to install. I hate idiots techs, that goes for idiot city inspectors too. OLE!Pearl Sutton wrote:
Peter VanDerWal wrote:
Pearl Sutton wrote:
One of the things I want is DIY installation, any idea if this is something I can do? I hate dealing with insatiably techs, they tend to piss me off...
Well, it's definitely doable, I did mine. Whether or not you can do it depends on you.
You'll need a good vacuum pump, I spent about $115 on mine(new). Probably not the pump I'd select if I did this for a living, but for doing 2-3 installs it was more than adequate.
I splurged and bought a micron vacuum gauge, that cost another $132. If you want to be absolutely sure you don't have any leaks (or water left in the system) you really need something that can measure down to 100 microns or less.
Typical cheap vacuum gauges have a needle that is almost 1 psi wide(or even wider), there are about 51,715 microns in 1 psi. So not only can't you tell the difference between 50 microns(great) and 50,000 microns (horrible), but you could be leaking hundreds of microns per hour (that's bad) ,or even thousands, and not be able to tell with a cheap gauge.
Altogether I spent about $350 or so on tools. Around here the HVAC guys wanted $2,000-$3,000 for installation. $350 and a few hours work were worth it to me.
Insatiably techs? What a weird typo I made there, missed that... I'll blame spell check :D I think I was trying to say installation
Hm, good info, thank you, I'll think on it. I could probably do it tech-wise, and I appreciate the tool specsl :) My thing is usually if you get install guys involved on any of it, they don't like to do just the part you want done, they want to do it all the way they always do it, and they don't understand all the other factors that are involved in why it is the way it is. They don't care about the whole design, and how things fit in, and rarely want to understand, just steamroll over you "This is how we do it!!" Yeah, well, I am not a fan of the results you get when you do it that way.... Could be I'm just an alien :) And I haven't done anything more than chat with any of the local HVAC guys, but what I heard didn't give me the feeling "yes! This is who I want to work with!" the feeling I got was "this is how we do it, because this is how we do it, no other input wanted."