Justin Hernandez

Yea I've been busy I feel like I abandoned you guys, I will try to post some stuff soon. Hope all is well with you man!!

All these strange coincidence's happen to me all the time its funny. I had just bought it today and then a few minutes later Klein posts today's giveaway on Facebook..lol

The EMT stopped at the bottom of the air handler, they shoved a non-metallic seal tight into the EMT with no connectors. I removed the plastic seal tight, installed a transition fitting from EMT to metallic flex along with metallic flex to the unit. I wish I would have took some more pictures, it was not mechanically grounded before no ground what so ever. Now it is mechanically grounded and has a dedicated ground wire.

On Saturday it was 93 with a heat index of 96 and humility like 80%

Let's make this clear I don't find this stuff it finds me..lol Yup I go behind unlicensed contractors and clean up there mess, the crazy thing is homeowners are always complaining about my price. They seem to forget the fact that the other guy took there money did crappy work and now it all has to get redone.

They are all junk read my reply to Ricky. How much does a 40 gallon HTP cost, I'm not sure if anyone here even sells stainless tanks.

I think AO Smith is the best and there is studies about it Bradford White comes in second place. Honestly they are all junk nobody maintains them and the steel tank will leak eventually. Manufacturers just care about one thing nowadays PROFIT, they will cut corners anywhere they can to save money. In most places they will only sell either Bradford or A.O never will you find both being sold in the same area. So if your a plumber and you buy A.O of course you are going to say its the best and that Bradford sucks because you can't buy it and don't install it. I'm just making conversation here

Kinda like the president then

This is true but they sure can screw up the electrical wiring. I wish I had pictures of this gas tankless that they used dryer duct flex as the flue pipe. I had to rip it all out and put in a stainless steel flue which was expensive. If I remember correctly I charged them $2500 with permit. What happens is any time a new roof is done here the water heater flue pipe has to be upgraded to B-vent on final roof inspection. That particular tankless required stainless

Its code here, its crazy to think some places allow it in other states. No exposed romex allowed here what so ever anywhere it can be in the attic but thats it. I don't think its strict it makes sense to me. HAha, I tell all the water heaters, its okay one day I will give you a face lift when funds are available.

Interesting, that sounds like a bad idea about the electrical. I know a plumber that charges a ton of money for a water heater install he uses sharbites and just changes over to cpvc. I stick with the same pipe that comes out of the wall, maybe only once or twice I changed from copper to cpvc. On a heater that is copper and only needs two couplings and two adapters I could tear out the old one install the new one and clean up in two hours. That doesn't happen all the time but if I haul ass I could do it in two hours. On cpvc water lines usually only 1.5 hours, how fast does your boss want it done..lol I rip the box open and prep the new one while the old drains, most times it only drains to half and I just manhandle it out of the way. Slide the new in and just let the old drain while connecting everything. The fastest I ever installed a heater was ten minutes, what happen was the old one was stolen and I prepped the new one before I got there. Took it out the box put my adapters on glued a short piece of cpvc then threw it in the truck. There was no water to the property so I didn't have to fill it and the electrician was going to do the whip. It was funny because I just put three elbows, cpvc glue, and ratchet cutters in my pocket than just threw the tall 30 gallon heater on my shoulder and walked in the house. I was done in ten minutes I timed it..lol The homeowner was like, ''hey when did you get here'' I said ten minutes ago. Then he said is the water heater being installed today I said come over here look its done already. He was like damn your fast like flash. I will never be able to do one that fast ever again, kind of sad when you think about it. Hey if I used the sharkbite flex lines I could have done it in like 3 minutes just would have needed an elbow for the relief line.

Another Monday and another beautiful masterpiece of a Water Heater install. I swear I'm the king when it comes to finding crappy water heater installs, look at this art work. And to think I don't even take pictures of all of them or post everything, I would have a huge scrap book if I did.lol On with the show!! Of course what water heater install would be complete without having some sharks swimming around in the tank (sharkbite fittings). First cut a huge hole in the wall, don't patch it so the carbon monoxide from the cars in the garage goes it to the house. Not to mention its a fire wall so a fire will find that hole fast. Then find any pvc glue you have in the truck and glue a cpvc male fitting to the pipes. Now go get the sharks out of their sleeping bags feed them some pex and then release them. Don't put a pan under the heater in case the sharks tank decides to break and leak. Now we need to put in a small electric fence to protect the sharks from any unwanted visitors in case they touch it. I can't keep writing like this..lol So there's no pan, a mess of water pipes, a hole in the wall, romex wire, but the relief line is piped in so I guess its safe. We can't have romex exposed it needs to be inside a greenfield flex, it needs to have a connector on the tank not just shoved it the hole plus it needs to be 10-2 romex not 12-2. The icing on the cake is the guy left his business card on top of the switch, I will be calling him and congratulate him on his masterpiece.

You have no idea, last Saturday on Google hangouts we talked about HVAC for almost 7 hours live.lol There was a hangout last night that lasted 2 hours, and there will be another one tonight

Yea changing shower valves is the worst, I price them high with no guarantee that tile can be saved. Around here a lot of them are on outside walls where this is only an inch from the durock to the cinder blocks. We have just a 1/2'' furring strip attached directly to the cinder block walls and then the drywall directly on the furring strip. I would rather do a slab leak repair then a shower valve any day

Sweet!!! And a sharkbite too.lol I've been having problems with those Delta valves, the cartridge goes bad quick. I get lucky some times and just change the seats and springs. I had a call back on one a week after my warranty expired sucks to be them..lol

I'm close to the Keys its way hotter here than in Orlando or Tampa area during the so called winter. I haven't worn a jacket or sweater in years

I usually squeeze a fire blanket or a piece of sheet metal behind any pipe touching wood. then solder my fitting.

Yea pawn shops are way over priced here, I told the guy working there that all this stuff is stolen. He told me to leave..lol

I have never seen a furnace in real life we have no need for heat here. This is an air handler with heat strips, they never get used but code requires that they be installed. The last time I had a no heat call was three years ago, it was because they had a new born baby. They only ran the heat for two days after I fixed it, we have no winter here..lol

This unit has no ground what so ever not even a mechanical ground. If this unit would have a short and you touched the cabinet you can become the grounding point of the unit and be electrocuted. I rewired this unit all the way back to the panel and got rid of the seal tight that was just shoved into the emt. It was wired with #8 wire and the heater required #6. So I pulled 6's and a #10 ground wire and used greenfield flex. Now unit is ground mechanically and has a ground wire.

I'm the same way, for fast food lunch I always go to a major franchise. You can usually see what the kitchen looks because its right it front of you and they make your food where you can see them. A buddy of mines wife got food poisoning a few weeks ago he said dinner for the two of them was almost a hundred bucks. Talk about getting ripped off

\ Ice machines have tons of mold, carry all kinds of bacteria and diseases. Its hard to get them completely clean and its expensive labor wise and so is the cleaner that is use. So most places don't even bother to clean them its nasty I like when you find died dogs inside the wall in freezers, true story.

Most likely it is 30 amps unless a monkey wired it up..lol The smallest a Hybrid comes in is 50 gallons :/ but the crazy thing is the bigger the Hybrid tank the more energy efficient it is. If you want it to make coffee it will, you just have to believe it can.

I agree, I do have some out there that have become permanent because they never called back to fix it right. I guess they just don't want to pay any more money. I use them when the shut off at the street leaks by, you tell the owner he needs to have the city come out and change the shut off. But the owner doesn't care. I have some inside slabs and you tell them its just a temp until house gets repiped, but the house never gets repiped and they just cement back over it. I wish some people will just listen

What's wrong here?? This unit has no ground what so ever not even a mechanical ground. If this unit would have a short and you touched the cabinet you can become the grounding point of the unit and be electrocuted. I rewired this unit all the way back to the panel and got rid of the seal tight that was just shoved into the emt. It was wired with #8 wire and the heater required #6. So I pulled 6's and a #10 ground wire and used greenfield flex. Now unit is ground mechanically and has a ground wire.