Man I really appreciate that you're not one of the elitist repair people that get super upset when homeowners or other mechanically/electrically inclined people attempt to resolve their own issues. You're polite and helpful, and you clearly understand that homeowners aren't trying to sabotage you before you show up. Many of these folks are just trying to save what little money they have and fix their own problems if possible. Kudos, brother.
Season's greetings from Canada, Steve. Our temperature today is -28C with windchill of -35C. With all the things learned from you I keep our 95% efficiency furnace in good working order keeping us warm.
Thank you for your contributions to the plumbing,heating,and cooling profession.This has helped me improve my skills and boost morale. Keep up the cool videos and helping others stay sharp !!
It's amazing Steve, how all your years of experience pays off, simple fix for you and you make the other dude shine! Class act friend, Merry Christmas, remain blessed 🙌
Great video! But something is bothering me about the location of the exhaust vent location! Apparently that area is a sort of ~playground area~ and anytime the furnace cycles on, carbon monoxide is spewing out,, until the temp. in the house satisfies! If those children are playing in that area regularly,, especially on quiet breeze-less days,, they may be harmed!!! Steve said that that house is like a day-care and someone needs to look into this!!!!!!! PLEASE STEVE!!!
Been a service guy for awhile and never thought to put a vacuum on the pipe and blow out any debri awesome trick thanks Steve for all your awesome videos
Happy holidays Steve, before I retired I work for the city in Detroit and came across a lot of sabotage on the job. Most of the time we had to work with what we had, if I had a switch with that type and the connection was broken off I would take the tip of a exacto knife break it off and was able to stick it in where the connection broke off. I hope this helps you never know when the trick will come in handy, best regards Wolfie
lol, I was expecting a dead Rat ... when I moved a low return duct in my mothers house in what was our downstairs playroom as kids I found dozens of toys from the 50-60's ... worst part was I think I dropped most of them in there ; ) .... well Steve, you found the issue fast and gave him the "shine" and a few laughs .... have a Merry Christmas and give Molly a scratch on the head from us !
Great bit of diagnostics and repair Steve. Happy Christmas. Thanks for all the videos. Might be better to put 4/5 foot onto that exhaust to get it away from the playing children. It would also allow intake to be risen from the ground.
We had sewer gas in our elementary school restrooms, the kids were going on the roof and filling the vent stacks with the ballast off the roof. They also make caps for this situation .
Steve you need to get a digital manometer.. you could save a lot of time trouble shooting pressure switch ,vent pipes, heat exchangers , exhaust - ventor motor and others.. Normally pressure switch don't go bad
Great troubling shooting skills as usual, repairs, and explanations. Also good video as usual explaining your steps to the final repair. But what stood out for me is when you said " screwed glued and tattooed " I have not heard that saying in decades :). Also love your dog !
Absolutely amazing! I have a nephew that used my VCR as a garage for his Hot Wheels car when they came to visit once, the wife said it won't load my workout tape, I opened up the door and bingo there was the car...
Yep, seen that one before and of course it was a daycare house. You are lucky you were able to blow it out if the put rocks down the PVC venting you might have to cut it apart. I have wondered if a Pipe Snake would ever have to be used. Good Job Steve.
Steve, I will give you a tech tip for once. Use your manometer and check the inches of WC on the hose going to the pressure switch from the inducer. It should be roughly double what the pressure switch is rated for. If its not, then you have a blockage in the exhaust pipe. I can usually troubleshoot a system like that within 15 minutes.
Great idea to use the vacuum. That combustion intake is some BS. Manufacturers spec is probably above Anticipated snow level. I’d repipe that myself. Anyway I’m retired now from the gas company in Vermont. No more on call. Life in Florida is awesome
I have had two this season so far , one was a cigarette pack and the other was 2 rubber duckies lol . Before I replace a pressure switch i always put my manometer on the ventor . Merry Christmas Steve
25:16 Congrats to your daughter Steve for becoming a Front-end Manager at Lowe's. I'm a cashier at Lowe's been with the company for a year going to be 2 year's on September 8th!. I work at the Frisco Store in Texas!.
Didn't expect the kiddy toys. They always have birds in them. Quick diagnosis with unglued and too bad when you got to fix one thing just to figure out what's really wrong with it, but you'll have that. You are very entertaining; in case no one has told you lately. And again, I say! OMG Miss Molly! You sure are a cutie patootie.
I did a pm at a place once all the units were working got a call 3 weeks later that none of them were working. went back out and they had put a new roof on and the roofer cut all 3 pvc vent pipes to put the boots on. took me some looking to figure that out.
Dear Steve. the Day care centre probably started as a large house, then made into a day care centre. I would lift the intake & exit ports to bring it up to standard. the intake port is all ready sucking moisture into the unit rusting out the chamber, Having an exhaust port at at child height is enough to have the childcare centre shut down is the gas Co2 entering the playground aria. or you may install a new unit when it fails next time. I love watching you solve problems, Mis Molly & the Chooks the only GIRLS allowed to give you any cheek, love the VAN it sounds like a CHARFCUTTER. Happy New Year. Good health from Australia 38C today.
First thing to do is remove intake pipe and then try the furnace. One poor guy had his 3" intake pipe blocked with leaves showed him. He paid the bill. Week later came back. He put a white nylon stocking over the inlet pipe on the out side of house. It was raing that day stocking got wet, yup, no heat. Removed stocking it worked. Felt sorry for him, no charge for the 5 minuted call. Nice video, just brought memories.
Steve, my son is in the cold northeast like you are. When he had a new system installed I questioned not having some kind of cover over those vents. They refused to install those caps because there is humidity that exits there. They claim during the winter those caps will eventually ice over and block the vents. I too was afraid of critters entering those vents.
that reminds me when I was 3 or 4 in day care; the neighbor would watch 8 or 10 of us, and they had an oil burning boiler to heat the house. out back, us kids were really interested in the oil filler pipe for some reason, I think because it had a metal cover on top that was hinged, so you could lift the cover up and fill it with oil. anyways, we stuffed all kinds of things down the pipe, like sticks and rocks and a few glasses of kool aid. needless to say, they weren't too happy in the fall when it was heating season and all that stuff was in the tank and pipes!
My favorite preschool calls is when the toilets for the whole school wing are backing up into the building and everyone swears no baby wipes are going down the toilets. One of these days I’m going to leave the wad of wipes we pull out on the snake in a zip lock bag taped to the wall for proof.
I'll bet, that was the first time you found a dinosaur in the pipe!😅🤣 Happy holidays! 🥃🥃🍺🍺🍺🏌🏻♀️🎯 Stay safe. Retired (werk'n)keyboard super tech. Wear your safety glasses!
HHMMM, I noticed you put some tape on that door safety switch so you could test the furnace with it running. The furnace was still running when you put the doors back on. Did you forget to pull that tape off the switch?? Luv the Vids! :)
So based on my understanding of these furnaces, the higher the efficiency the more the likelyhood of condensate being present in the exhaust? The only part I didnt understand when reading up on furnaces was why 140 was the magic temperature for whether or not condensate would be present, wouldnt it be boiling point? Or is 140 the point that water evaporates more quickly or something? Idk, this is interesting to read about.
Nothing to do with temperature, and it's not 140 degrees. It's a negative 1.40 pressure switch. Inducer creates a negative pressure on inlet side which must be greater than -1.40 inches WC in order for pressure switch to close. The exhaust gasses are cooled below dew point in secondary heat exchanger. That's where the water comes from and it is sent down through the trap and out the drain.
I had to bail his sorry ass out 🤣🤣🤣 You sure got a way with words 😂😂😂 Good entertainment ... We need it more than ever now a days ... Thx for sharing 👍🎅🎄🕎
I love how Steve repeats things over and over when talking about a problem, its hilarious.
Same 😆😅🤣
Me too
When he’s brazing a pipe and keeps singing “burnin down the house” the whole time……funniest thing ever
@@andrewbechtel5821 steve has a better sense of humor than anything on TV
Steve reminds me of Jimmy 2 Times in Goodfellas! I'm going to fix the furnace...fix the furnace!
Man I really appreciate that you're not one of the elitist repair people that get super upset when homeowners or other mechanically/electrically inclined people attempt to resolve their own issues. You're polite and helpful, and you clearly understand that homeowners aren't trying to sabotage you before you show up. Many of these folks are just trying to save what little money they have and fix their own problems if possible.
Kudos, brother.
Season's greetings from Canada, Steve. Our temperature today is -28C with windchill of -35C.
With all the things learned from you I keep our 95% efficiency furnace in good working order
keeping us warm.
Thank you for your contributions to the plumbing,heating,and cooling profession.This has helped me improve my skills and boost morale. Keep up the cool videos and helping others stay sharp !!
It's amazing Steve, how all your years of experience pays off, simple fix for you and you make the other dude shine! Class act friend, Merry Christmas, remain blessed 🙌
Great video! But something is bothering me about the location of the exhaust vent location! Apparently that area is a sort of ~playground area~ and anytime the furnace cycles on, carbon monoxide is spewing out,, until the temp. in the house satisfies! If those children are playing in that area regularly,, especially on quiet breeze-less days,, they may be harmed!!!
Steve said that that house is like a day-care and someone needs to look into this!!!!!!! PLEASE STEVE!!!
Me: What did you find, Steve?
Steve: My technical answer is, "The kids have been putting shit into the exhaust pipe!"
horses and dinosaurs
Been a service guy for awhile and never thought to put a vacuum on the pipe and blow out any debri awesome trick thanks Steve for all your awesome videos
Nice job Steve but you forgot to take the tape off the door switch!!!!!!
This reminds me of the Little Rascals TV show always getting in trouble. Nice catch!
Wishing you, miss Molly, and all subscriber's have a nice relaxing holiday weekend. 👍🎅🐶
I’ve been watching for years. Knowledge and entertainment that’s why I keep watching. Thank you very much. 👍🏽
Happy holidays Steve, before I retired I work for the city in Detroit and came across a lot of sabotage on the job. Most of the time we had to work with what we had, if I had a switch with that type and the connection was broken off I would take the tip of a exacto knife break it off and was able to stick it in where the connection broke off. I hope this helps you never know when the trick will come in handy, best regards Wolfie
lol, I was expecting a dead Rat ... when I moved a low return duct in my mothers house in what was our downstairs playroom as kids I found dozens of toys from the 50-60's ... worst part was I think I dropped most of them in there ; ) .... well Steve, you found the issue fast and gave him the "shine" and a few laughs .... have a Merry Christmas and give Molly a scratch on the head from us !
That's one badass accent you have it makes me happy just listening to you not to mention the want to toss back a few brews.
Thanks for putting out a vid everyday steve and i hope you and Molly have a great holiday
Been watching for years. Awesome Happy holidays
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to Steve and Molly, Stay safe..
Great bit of diagnostics and repair Steve. Happy Christmas. Thanks for all the videos.
Might be better to put 4/5 foot onto that exhaust to get it away from the playing children. It would also allow intake to be risen from the ground.
amazon sells a cheap scope that connects to your phone , has a light at the end, helped me troubleshoot this exact same situation
We had sewer gas in our elementary school restrooms, the kids were going on the roof and filling the vent stacks with the ballast off the roof. They also make caps for this situation .
Bird screens!
You have the best videos Steve, Happy Holidays to you and Ms. Molly. 🐕 😊
Good troubleshooting Steve
Steve you need to get a digital manometer.. you could save a lot of time trouble shooting pressure switch ,vent pipes, heat exchangers , exhaust - ventor motor and others.. Normally pressure switch don't go bad
time is money though.. lol
Merry Christmas Steve and Miss Molly !
I loved the phone call, two guys bustin each other's balls! Lol.
Great troubling shooting skills as usual, repairs, and explanations. Also good video as usual explaining your steps to the final repair. But what stood out for me is when you said " screwed glued and tattooed " I have not heard that saying in decades :). Also love your dog !
Absolutely amazing!
I have a nephew that used my VCR as a garage for his Hot Wheels car when they came to visit once, the wife said it won't load my workout tape, I opened up the door and bingo there was the car...
My neighbor told me that his kid put a peanut butter sandwich in the VCR because “it was hungry”.
@@picklerix6162 lol
Nice seeing videos like this. There's not much available on a commercial scale in the UK.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Damn kids 😆 that’s funny 👍🤘🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸 good find Steve lav
Yep, seen that one before and of course it was a daycare house. You are lucky you were able to blow it out if the put rocks down the PVC venting you might have to cut it apart. I have wondered if a Pipe Snake would ever have to be used. Good Job Steve.
Steve, I will give you a tech tip for once. Use your manometer and check the inches of WC on the hose going to the pressure switch from the inducer. It should be roughly double what the pressure switch is rated for. If its not, then you have a blockage in the exhaust pipe. I can usually troubleshoot a system like that within 15 minutes.
it should roughly be double the rating unless its a trane/american standard. they dont get double the reading
They should run both the pipes up the wall higher out the reach of the kids and snow! 👍
Agreed, no real need for a screen then.
I found a duck on top of the heat exchanger during an annual service. I was like what the duck?!! LOL
Great idea to use the vacuum. That combustion intake is some BS. Manufacturers spec is probably above Anticipated snow level. I’d repipe that myself. Anyway I’m retired now from the gas company in Vermont. No more on call. Life in Florida is awesome
Merry Christmas Steve. Hope you and Molly have a good one.⛄🎄🎅🏻
I have had two this season so far , one was a cigarette pack and the other was 2 rubber duckies lol .
Before I replace a pressure switch i always put my manometer on the ventor . Merry Christmas Steve
25:16 Congrats to your daughter Steve for becoming a Front-end Manager at Lowe's. I'm a cashier at Lowe's been with the company for a year going to be 2 year's on September 8th!. I work at the Frisco Store in Texas!.
Didn't expect the kiddy toys. They always have birds in them. Quick diagnosis with unglued and too bad when you got to fix one thing just to figure out what's really wrong with it, but you'll have that. You are very entertaining; in case no one has told you lately.
And again, I say! OMG Miss Molly! You sure are a cutie patootie.
Crazy find... Good find...
I did a pm at a place once all the units were working got a call 3 weeks later that none of them were working. went back out and they had put a new roof on and the roofer cut all 3 pvc vent pipes to put the boots on. took me some looking to figure that out.
Do you ever get more than 4 inches of snow around there? Looks like that would clog the lower elbow.
Usually can only jump the pressure switch in sequence to the board!
Just a though you can change the micro switch. 3mm screws to replace the rivets.
Fricken toys in the exhaust, Hilarious! Thanks for sharing Steve!
Dear Steve. the Day care centre probably started as a large house,
then made into a day care centre.
I would lift the intake & exit ports to bring it up to standard. the intake
port is all ready sucking moisture into the unit rusting out the chamber,
Having an exhaust port at at child height is enough to have the childcare
centre shut down is the gas Co2 entering the playground aria.
or you may install a new unit when it fails next time.
I love watching you solve problems, Mis Molly & the Chooks the only GIRLS
allowed to give you any cheek, love the VAN it sounds like a CHARFCUTTER.
Happy New Year. Good health from Australia 38C today.
First thing to do is remove intake pipe and then try the furnace. One poor guy had his 3" intake pipe blocked with leaves showed him. He paid the bill. Week later came back. He put a white nylon stocking over the inlet pipe on the out side of house. It was raing that day stocking got wet, yup, no heat. Removed stocking it worked. Felt sorry for him, no charge for the 5 minuted call. Nice video, just brought memories.
Merry Christmas may you and your family have a peaceful and Healthy New Year. Bill N LI NY
I haven't run into that before, hilarious 🤣 ⛄🎄
You remind me of Scotty from Star Trek.
He always found out what was wrong, no matter what.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Steve.
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and your family Steve. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all.
Steve, my son is in the cold northeast like you are. When he had a new system installed I questioned not having some kind of cover over those vents. They refused to install those caps because there is humidity that exits there. They claim during the winter those caps will eventually ice over and block the vents. I too was afraid of critters entering those vents.
Some manufacturers void the warranty if you put any sort of cap over the exhaust or intake
They will ice over in cold climates especially if the wind hits that side we'll even have pipes freeze over without them
@@MrBrioke 100% we Never put anything screens on and this is very true that warranty can be voided if so
It’s true, and it’s a shame because it’s the obvious solution to critter control, but it risks causing major issues.
that reminds me when I was 3 or 4 in day care; the neighbor would watch 8 or 10 of us, and they had an oil burning boiler to heat the house. out back, us kids were really interested in the oil filler pipe for some reason, I think because it had a metal cover on top that was hinged, so you could lift the cover up and fill it with oil. anyways, we stuffed all kinds of things down the pipe, like sticks and rocks and a few glasses of kool aid. needless to say, they weren't too happy in the fall when it was heating season and all that stuff was in the tank and pipes!
Nice job Steve
Great job Steve. I would consider extending both pipes higher if possible? Merry Christmas!!
Good job Steve.
Man what a shop vac. Blew that shit right out. Good job as always 👏
What about the water leaks from the transfer box area. Bad gasket , maybe cracked ventor motor casing.
My favorite preschool calls is when the toilets for the whole school wing are backing up into the building and everyone swears no baby wipes are going down the toilets. One of these days I’m going to leave the wad of wipes we pull out on the snake in a zip lock bag taped to the wall for proof.
Plastic fibers in personal and disposable household cleaning wipes should be illegal, in my opinion.
That was one of the funniest finds though. Great work!
Hes a gem and cracks me up, also knows his job
How about using a manometer to see if you’re getting a proper vacuum instead of guessing and putting the tube to the ear?
Merry Christmas Steve!!
Happy holidays!
Happy Christmas 🎄 Steve and miss molly wishing you a very safe 🙏 Christmas ok
From Charles
Haha laughed my ass off when I saw all the toys! It was Christmas presents to you Steve.
Great video. BTW, You forgot to take the tape of the switch.
hahahaha... that's awesome. Merry Christmas from Houston, Steve. Hope you have a great one! I've greatly enjoyed watching your videos!
HAHA Flippen Kids, Kids sent the toys to Santa via thru pipe. Merry Christmas Steve and Miss Molly
I had a good laugh seeing the toys
My electronics repair shop in the 1990's kept getting computer floppy drives from a daycare center with those flat toy pieces inserted inside.
Had a no heat way back kid's flooded a Lennox Pulse heat exchanger that was fun
Love the exhaust into a playground 😲
No wayyy I’m speechless wow those damn kids😂😂😭 good catch! I knew there was a blockage somewhere in there
Great guy, funny as hell lol
Steve thanks for your great content buddy. Keep em’ comin 👍🏼
Great 👍 buddy
I'll bet, that was the first time you found a dinosaur in the pipe!😅🤣
Happy holidays!
🥃🥃🍺🍺🍺🏌🏻♀️🎯
Stay safe.
Retired (werk'n)keyboard super tech. Wear your safety glasses!
given the way it continued to run while placing the bottom blower compartment cover, did you remove the tape over the switch?
25:59 - you can still see the tape. Left it on for future testing?
OMG Steve!!!!!!! Good find
HHMMM, I noticed you put some tape on that door safety switch so you could test the furnace with it running. The furnace was still running when you put the doors back on. Did you forget to pull that tape off the switch?? Luv the Vids! :)
That was a good one.
So based on my understanding of these furnaces, the higher the efficiency the more the likelyhood of condensate being present in the exhaust? The only part I didnt understand when reading up on furnaces was why 140 was the magic temperature for whether or not condensate would be present, wouldnt it be boiling point? Or is 140 the point that water evaporates more quickly or something? Idk, this is interesting to read about.
Nothing to do with temperature, and it's not 140 degrees. It's a negative 1.40 pressure switch. Inducer creates a negative pressure on inlet side which must be greater than -1.40 inches WC in order for pressure switch to close. The exhaust gasses are cooled below dew point in secondary heat exchanger. That's where the water comes from and it is sent down through the trap and out the drain.
I'm sure the exhaust dissipates quickly, but it's weird to discharge it into a play area for little kids... right at face level for them.
I had to bail his sorry ass out 🤣🤣🤣 You sure got a way with words 😂😂😂 Good entertainment ... We need it more than ever now a days ... Thx for sharing 👍🎅🎄🕎
Merry Christmas Steve and Ms. Molly. Keep the videos coming,, great work.
At 1:43 that dude in the pickup truck was definitely shitting bricks when Steve tried to avoid that puddle 😆🤦♂️
Got to love them kids.🤦♂️🤣 nice find Steve.👍
Steven, please tell me the model of your vacuum pump
🤣🤣🤣🤣too funny, I think I would add a screen & 3’ to that pipe lol. That’s one for the history books. Merry Christmas stay well.
Hello from the great state of Michigan
Did you get all the toys out?
Why do they have the exhaust in the playground?
great job steve eddie leak master plumbing
Stevo, how many times did you find toys clogging the toilet?
Never a dull moment!!!
26:01 Door switch is still taped.
@ Steve Lavimoniere either that heat exchanger has been replaced or that secondary heat exchanger is leaking or inducer motor leaking.
Too funny! Great Christmas video Steve.
Lol, Steve. Merry Christmas :)
Reposition the intake pipe and point it upward
Great video
Definitely the dinosaur! They get ya everytime!