Doesn’t matter what he thinks Ted. I’m in HVAC since 1988. If he would have had it serviced even a few times in the last 10 years you might have caught that inducer going bad before the warranty ran out. He would have gotten the part for free and just payed the labor to replace.

Now you know an "easter egg" is normally some sort of hidden gem..........and that's exactly what this is!

When you said there was an Easter Egg in the furnace, I thought that's what might have broken the draft inducer! Oh, to have heard the noise that probably made when the furnace ate it! It's disappointing that the distributor wasn't willing to fudge the warranty a bit in the name of customer goodwill.

It’s amazing how clean and rust free that unit is in that crawl after all those years! 👍

I’ve installed ICP units for over thirty years. Haven’t had many issues with them at all. Priced right, good warranty and very reliable. Thanks for sharing Theodore.👍👍🇨🇦

But wasn't the air handler in warranty when he called and made the complaint of loud noises and eventual failure? So shouldn't it be worked on under warranty since the noise and failure happened while under warranty. I guess the main question is, when did he call for service? If it was after the warranty time when he called for service, then yeah, no warranty work will take place. But if he called before the warranty expired, then I would think its covered under warranty since the air handler failed while under warranty still.

I agree on comfortmaker being great machines. We have one on the side of our house from 1996 with its original full charge of R22 and run cap. Has only ever needed cleanings and always works when we need it !

Thanks for all your hard work! People don’t realize the toll all that stooping and being on your hands and knees takes on your body! Knees, shoulders and lower back take a beating!

@OGHVAC

2 жыл бұрын

42 year's in the HVAC industry performing service, repair and installs has been BRUTAL to this OG's body. Residential being the worst compared to commercial and industrial service. Some basements, attics and tight crawl spaces are a nightmare. Ted is a tall drink of water as I am 6'2" which has been a curse and blessing. Great job Ted. Keep the videos coming. Thanks for all you show and teach the newer generation.

You had to perform an eggstraction procedure! Pretty nice well maintained home. I like the wrap around covered deck.

@toemblem

2 жыл бұрын

Reminded me of seeing a calf birthed but dryer.

That furnace layed an egg. Keep it warm and a baby furnace will hatch 🤣

WOW!….. I have NEVER heard of nor seen somebody use their return as a storage cabinet!!!!…. This guy sounded so nonchalant about “when he started storing stuff in here”!!! 😳🤣😂

Yeh, he ain’t gonna be happy about that. Those motors ain’t cheap either.

Wonder how many years it took for that egg to be found…best hiding spot ever….it would be interesting to see the egg’s effects during the summer months…

Another great video, If you serviced in the Midwest, where all the equipment is vertical, You have over head lighting, you can stand up or sit on a chair or tool box. I think your life would have been a lot easier. With my arthritis I couldn't sit "Indian style " on the ground like you do.

Bet that guy wishes he didn't drag ass on calling you when he first heard the noise. Something to be said about annual maintenance.

@jericosha2842

2 жыл бұрын

On the flip side, we come out and everything checks good and a motor fails months after and then they ask, "what's the point of maintenance when you were out 4 months ago?" Never ending battle. lol

I wasn't ready for a literal Easter egg.

That was great. 😄👌😄👌😄👌 Ted saved Easter.

@Knight805

2 жыл бұрын

Cool name!

There's one to share with the grandkids, some snowy night in front of the fire-!

ANY MORE TOURS OF THE NEW SHOP?

@OGHVAC

2 жыл бұрын

I concur! New shop/office update would be appreciated. Been following your progress.

Comforttaker “We suck eggs”

I like that Milwaukee fuel drill. I couldn't tell what the voltage is but I used the M18 driver and drill kit. Best set I ever had.

Could you imagine the size of that chicken that laid that egg ? Cheers

Your warranty just ran out but HERE have an egg!

Bad / worn ball bearings. Being a vintage computer collector, I've had some old hard drives from the 80s where the bearings sounded just like that. I also had a pool pump motor that suffered the same fate, got 100x as loud, and ended up pressing in new bearings. With new bearings it was so quiet it was hard to tell if it was running. The Easter egg in the plenum takes the cake!

@toemblem

2 жыл бұрын

Awww, come on guys, it's so simple maybe you need a refresher course. It's all ball bearings now days. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYp_27RsnK61aco.html

I think you should make a video talking about your career and how you began doing hvac and why along with what company did you start with. Basically just a timeline of your whole career because I think that would be really cool to hear you talk about.

Another great 👍 job Ted

Ted your a great guy love the videos. I noticed that flexible gas line without a dirt leg penitrating the cabinet and touching the cabinet. The vibration from the unit running could rub a hole in the gas line. I am seriously not trying to be KZread police just noticed a safety Hazzard is all.

One of my American Standard units with a 10 year P&L had a failed variable speed motor go out 10 years and 2 days. They would not honor warranty. It went out the week end of July 4th back in 2017. In the past 14 years, I replaced a Variable Speed module (under warranty) and the out of warranty motor on the upstairs unit. Not a bad record for my two 18 SEER Systems.

I watch your videos to learn stuff. After watching a lot I learned never buy a high efficiency furnace. My 80% unit is 30 years old and runs just fine.

Lack of engineers defining witch scew to use ;-)

Once I found a fried duck down the chimney lol 😂

I guess the Easter bunny forgot where he placed that big butt of an egg. Too funny. Finally nice to see clean air filters installed by a homeowner who cares about their system.

I have to save this was a eggcellent video.

Half expected y’all to disturb a dead pregnant easter bunny sitting in that return/storage space over the hole

Never seen that before. They're lucky it went all the way through.

Cowboy VS The Easter Bunny !

That's what ours sounded like when it went out..she was screaming at 4 am in the morning.

Hello from the great state of Michigan

That was some Easter Bunny! That is why we love these Videos, Birds, Rats, Snakes, and now an Easter Egg. What Next?

I see people make a lot of comments about Draft Inducer Motors. Regardless of brand, these motors (in my opinion) are maintenance items and periodically need replacing. I replace numerous in a winter season.

Might install and egg-filter on that return

Ted did you put this in that a hell of a return box mounted to the furance

Baker Brothers Supply....Wendall Purvis and his brother were countermen when Baker Brothers started in Ga. Some times when they were short of money they gave them stock in the company. When Wendall retired that stock was worth $1.4 million dollars. Kind of like finding that Easter egg.

At least there wasn't any Bee's or Snakes in it.

Eggcelent video, Ted

@--harry_

2 жыл бұрын

Eggsactly, what I was thinking!

Is that furnace venting into crawl? Saw the pipe from inducer elbowed out a few feet but not connected to an outdoor pvc pipe.

carefull !! if that egg hatches.........lordy !!

com on teddy u put that there he haww

I'd love to learn when the easter egg first went missing? Wonder if owner isn't a buddy of yours who added a litteral Easter Egg for entertainment value? Recently started enjoying your channel and I've seen a number of entertaining Easter eggs in a few of your video. ...rock climbing wall in home, drain pan literally on ceiling, zombies on skewer in Halloween sceen, etc. I enjoy being entertained while learning. Thanks

Hey Ted found a dead bat in a inducer assembly pulled it out and showed to the customer. She took off running hell I don’t know why

I noticed in your videos on furances the flue piping your using pressure fitting instead of dwv. Pressure fitting are shot radius and vent fittings are long turn radius which are the right fittings to use fyi

Good 1 Ted ... Thx ...

Thats one way for an easter egg hunt

What kind of tape was that? Sounded like duct tape coming off, but looked like foil tape on the other side.

Good job Ted.

the cowboys of easter and hvac theres yor dinner

Great fix

I use zip ties then seal after never had a air leak from that.

Give the egg back to the younguns, so they can hide it in the return again!

I bet of they did annual service that would of been picked up earlier and replaced under warranty

Is that a logical storage area? It wouldn't be in my house!

I have been looking for that since April........

That thing had a lot of rollout on ignition. Was the collector box ok? They crack all the time and the furnace can't draw enough draft properly. But, these things are backwards and always light violently, due to the fact ICP designed the ignitor to be at the end of the gas manifold, and not at the beginning at the first burner. Dumb.

My inducer was loud af, didn't know thats what pulls out the cm into the chimney.

Ted Saved Easter 🐣 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣 🤠👍🏻

Astonishing how clean the unit is. Interesting to us NO BASEMENT ACCESS from above. Must crawl in under the building. Storage in the return unit .

Who stores stuff in the return plenum?

Rollout on ignition?

Thick filters, and that roofing material on the return is definitely too restrictive.

sound muffled?

Does anyone in SC have a furnace mounted normally? :)

Besides the dislike for gas fired furnaces in hard to reach attic spaces, I especially hate gas fired furnaces in a crawl space with a dirt floor. How much dust and mold is sucked up through the system and into the house? When the tech first opened the door, I thought, oh good a concrete pad down there. NOPE! Dirt.

It's hard to stop an icp !

Why not use Panduit straps?

Late night for sure

You installed this? I thought you only did Trane.

Them Youngins had them a good time .

It might have been the Easter egg with the money in it!

Just can’t make this stuff up. Thanks

what a strange place to store junk

Ted for President!!

Notice fitting coming out of top of furance

👍

Sorry, the Easter egg is no longer under warranty.

Those fasco jakel motors are terrible. We keep several in stock because we get atleast 10 replaced every winter. Most don't even make it 5 years on a properly running system.

@justinh7957

2 жыл бұрын

And if its double piped you can here them screeching when you're walking up to the house

Seems like its always a crap chinese sleeve bearing that fails on those fan motors. The one item that is subject to the most wear and manufacturers use the cheapest part for that. The extra cost for a true sealed ball bearing would have been what, $5 or so which dwarfs this no heat call of maybe $400.

@gor312

2 жыл бұрын

From the sound of this motor, it was most likely a ball bearing. Sleeve bearings are actually about as reliable as ball bearings, when they are properly applied. The problem here is that these inducer motors are cheap garbage and run extremely hot, which dramatically shortens the life of any bearing. Ball bearings can be also highly susceptible to dirt contamination. If they had spent 50 cents more on nicer materials, the motor would run cooler and would last 50 years instead of 10.

You just exposed their hidey hole for their valuables.

Still better the 2eyes and 4 legs looking at you . Lol

🐣

Hardly a literal Easter egg in something!

Your camera picks up all kinds of critters, dust flying all around. Do you ever wear a mask in those areas? Would be bad to inhale some of that stuff.

10 years out of a furnace is pathetic. 11 also.

😳😳😳😳😳😳

Lol I found a Easter egg in furnace intake pipe

Was that the only return? Assuming the duct was larger, opening that hole up would improve the air flow.

@Freonleon

2 жыл бұрын

There two ducts coming off that trunk

Hahahaha eggy

Grind me a pound!

Ctfu 😂😂🤣🤣

I would have pulled the fan bud

First?!