Freezer Too Warm / Stop Cutting Corners!
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- There is nothing I hate more than fixing lazy ass peoples hackery. Do it right the first time or go home. How to fix a warm freezer! Maintain it, invest time into learning how it works.
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Why was I bitching about this call more than normal? I’m tired. I’m tired of the half ass work done by others. I don’t care about the money, that time has passed when you have already had someone else out to make the repair. I believe in doing it right or you can go home but don’t have me clean up your miss when I already did my full day. If you can’t understand that then I’m not the video channel for you. I have a personality that will share anything I know but I can’t teach someone to care about what they do. That’s a personal decision that person has to make for themself. Thanks for the support I get from my awesome viewers✌️
Amen brother, your the outlier in this industry, the guy who actually cares to fix it right. I love your videos. You are a grade A technician. I have learned a lot from your videos.
I feel you half of theses supermarket racks are butchered half the time 😂😂
You the man Rick!
Sometimes I go for days just fixing other people's screwups .
Hearing you bitchin' is half the fun , you should hear the colorful language that comes out my mouth while working !
I for one love the bitchin.... I watch for 1, the knowledge, then 2, for the bitchin!!! Keep it coming!!!!
I’m very good at it. 🤣 at least that’s what my mom used to say.
"Term/fan switch. USE IT!" Love it Rick.
Yeah, yeah yeah lol I should've called her the thing a ma Bob down by the witcha Ma Call it
I see you have Chris’s hat on. Just got my new one in the mail on Saturday.
He gave me that new one when we meet for dinner when I was in Cali last year.
Laziness at its finest. Good job correcting things.
How about this: we have All the right to bitch about things when they are done the lazy way. Great work and video. Thank you.
Sounds good to me.
Going behind someone is what I hate. My old boss would make me fix it myself. That is what needs to happen in a lot of industries.
That’s how things used to be.
Retired now but have never used or seen PVC used in a WIF. Always ran copper, heat tape and insulated and p trapped out side box.
Same here. Not retired, but always use copper and wrap the heat tape on the outside, then insulate it.
i recognize that rooftop. Good luck with them lmao
Lennox Junk
@@HVACRSurvival not only that but the make up air if i remember correctly grenaded few years back and we gave em a quote to fix or replace. said it was too pricey and then they were wondering why AC wasnt keeping up and doors were hard to open
I do not like working there, Sam I am. It’s hard to get paid to me. It’s not worth it so I don’t like their green eggs and ham. 😂
Can’t fixed stupid but sure can charge for it. Fucking love it. Just smells like money to be made.
Damn strait. 🤣
Great job 🙌🙌👍👌😊🍀🍀
@ 4:37😂😂😂😅
Just fix the issue and stop trying to up sell the customer. 😅😅😅😅 the door is fine haha great video 📹 👌 👍
I figured a bed sheet would work better than that door but we got fighting about the thread count 🤨🙂
ROFL on your comtary but so true!!! Sounds like lazzy techs before u
I was trying to be as fun as possible to make the situation bearable.
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11:55 “Can’t fix stupid but you can charge for it” 😂 my new favorite line.
Fully understand when you’re tired and frustrated you start bitching to yourself. I’d be more concerned if someone wasn’t 😅.
Thank you. Sometimes I get stupid messages about it.
Agreed. Rick should make a shirt with that on it...
Yeah and he's absolutely right! I have fixed other's hack job too and it really is infuriating. That line is perfect
@@bradwilmot5066Agreed!
the GFCI red all the time, it's could be bad and stuck on, but it sounded like it tripped and reset so maybe ok.
I had a few bad ones last year(new out of box), red light stayed on power passing out and through both. but it would also not trip/reset, I thought I wired them wrong at first( done that before with head up my rear). but no, they were 100% bad legrand from menards. 😑
A person really can learn a lot , it’s your verbal trouble shooting with years of experience / knowledge, thank you
I was really ticked on this one. Thanks for your feedback! It truly helps me know if I’m on track or not.
I detect a note of cynicism in your demeanor, after 50 years in the trade you will be totally cynical. I am now referred to as the mean old guy that fixes crap.
By the way, 2 screws and you can flop the terminal board out of the way .
Right on John 👍🤜🤛. I’m coming up on my 30 Th year next July
Your knowledge & work ethic are admiral, Great Video, thanks
That’s very kind of you, thank you very much for the feedback and support
You said it You cant fix stupid but you can charge for it. Hey makes for easy service calls
My wife laughed at that one😅
Two screws and 7 permits, sounds like a government job to me.
😂
Thanks sloppy wiring makes any technician grumpy, I know from experience
People get what they pay for.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Again. "You have to get a permit and a whole crew for pulling 3 wires?" Great video man. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed
I don't blame you for bitching i hate going behind half ass co workers or fixing other people's butcher jobs
249th Thumbs uP
I had a rule when running jumpers , no talking
When we’re done , we can talk
Same Rick cant do lazy or stupid does my head in day after day people shit me.
Rick, I feel your pain. Lazy people are the bane of my existence. Sometimes I wonder how people wake up and remember to breathe. Great video as always and hope your weekend was good. Never long enough.
That is a really good one lol I like that one. It wasn't too bad and I was even on call but it's not Monday morning yet. Anything could happen yet tonight lol not really laughing.
Best AC Guy Ever!!!! I watched every single video. The younger generation will never understand and wont care to learn this trade. Makes me sick.
Thank you very much Shaggy! It means a lot. I basically work alone and my viewers are my peers.
Ill be the first to admit, couple times ive just pulled off the X on time clock and called it a night. I'll always leave it on return though to come back and replace the term.
And that's fully understandable. You sometimes can't do it in the middle of the night, but this job was done in the middle of the day originally and it kind of shits happened a few times. Obviously I couldn't go into it in the video, but you can put pieces together.
the more you work the more you find the more you have to do
Oh yeah, i wanna eat there! Where's that at?😅😅😅
🤣 it’s a secret you don’t want to know.
We will pretend like we didn't see that switch behind on evap lol
Good job Rick, It took me all day to run that conduit on the roof, cut me some sympathy, Rick, haha, just kidding.......
I knew it was you 🤣👍
"lets be careful to not get zapped", wimp! where's your thrill of adventure seeking. 🤣🤣
I zap myself somewhat frequently so I recall how bad it feels and to not do it again, then of course I do it again anyway. 🙄
I prefer to not get zapped. But it happens.
U fix your own home freezers and refrigerators ??? What about your vehicles ?
Yes and yes. I don’t know concrete, not great at carpet and haven’t done much roofing but I do about anything i can because people disappoint me on a regular basis
Lets fix this lazy or unexperienced technician problem with the 5 year apprentice program. Ask your boss to provide you with a greeny fresh from hvac school. The apprentice will ride with you to every job for 3 years minimum. 5 is better. Are you and other experienced journymen willing to do this? Is your company willing to spend the money to train the apprentice for 5 years? Unlikely.
When i was the apprentice, I was on every job with the journyman for 3 years solid. Worked with the company for 5 years total. Are there any other solutions? Any ideas?
I have no problem with somebody riding with me. I mean in reality I'm bringing several thousand people with me every time I record a video and we do have an apprenticeship program but it's only once a week for a few hours for four or five years. I've even helped teach it, but I see where it's lacking and I actually have talked with my supervisor on having people ride with me but like you said if they're already making in the mid $20s as a total rookie, it's kind of hard to have me at top pay and add them too because now your company cost of labor is more than what charging or damn near close to it. Yes I'm in Ohio where we cant charge the crazy money some companys charge in other states or larger citys. Are population in under 40K people.
💪❄️👍🇺🇸 great vid. Staff could care less about equipment their attitude is if it breaks who cares someone else will fix it n owners can't fire them because they r desperate for employees. Nice watch
Absolutely 💯
I have pulled x before in some situations ,why not pull it of on roof and do 30min.if you already in the evap, why not just change the dtt,i could see if it was 6pm and evap was a block of ice and cant get to dtt quickly. But he was already in there,why didn't he just change dtt?
I would guess it’s harder for another to notice it. The paper work said it was checked. That’s the bs part of this.
Hey this is Matt HVAC in Minnesota Dom question do you wear your iPhone watch on your right hand? Also, how do you like that watch thinking of buying one thank you love your videos.
Yes, Matt, I love the watch and I wear it on my right wrist and I am right handed. I don’t conform to the norm. 😁
Ive bypassed the DTFD to get through the weekend before, but they will not work right without it. Eventually, you end up with ice all over everything. Just had to do it weekend before last because fans were not coming on.
And I agree that's totally fine. There's definitely a difference between a temporary fix and a permanent half ass fix.
We had a saying in the industry that I worked in. "There is never enough time to do it right the first time but there is always enough time to do it right the second time!"
Very True
I need to start engraving my tools, too, since we all carry pretty much the same tools. I understand your frustration... instead of focusing on the main problem, you end up working and cleaning up someone else's shoddy, lazy work.
Exactly!
Rick, I appreciate your honesty about shoddy work by people who don’t care how their work looks! Thanks again for taking time to do the work correctly !
I always love your bitching refrigeration calls. It’s literally what every refer guy is thinking when we see this kind of crap . Nothing wrong with being mad at seeing shitty work when it’s not that hard to do it right
😅 I am very good at it..
I run into this type of shit all the time in South, Ga. Awesome video as always!
Thanks brother! It sucks for sure
I hear you Rick - just left a job - customer had another company install the walk-in equipment last week. They wouldn’t come back, said they didn’t have any R404a on their truck? I’ve never seen so many half assed mistakes . Lots of hacks out there . Good video .
One of the videos I did a few weeks ago where I change a Txv on a used piece of equipment. Another company underbid us on was the same situation. Yet they want us to work on their stuff after they gave the profit to someone else and said we were just way too expensive. Well, our cost have gone up to.
@@HVACRSurvivalyup - I hear that all the time ,your To expensive . Restaurants are notorious for having bottom of the barrel companies do the installs but then complain about shoddy contractors . Also lots of smaller businesses buy walk ins and refrigerators from auction houses/ then have their maintenance guys install .
Didn't spot a P trap on that drain either? Although going by the door and the unsealed hole through the wall it's not going to be a major source of air infiltration...
You’re lucky if you can even get paid. I’m not going overboard.
It's annoying when it's another company's mess but when it's a coworker that's even worse .
I come across other people's messes a lot but then I don't wanna put them on blast so I have to fix it and not say anything which is 10 times more frustrating !
I think we can all relate to your pain that day Rick !
And thats why I didn't say another company but said another person. 😠 and it keeps happening over and over.
I’ve had similar problems in a different profession. I always go back to the one who was there before and pester them to explain why they did something or chose to ignore something. The company appreciates it even if not all the people do, but surprisingly, some of them actually do appreciate being spoken to, since they recognize that you could have blown them in but chose to talk to them instead.
You hit the nail on the head quick and dirty payday on Friday and I don’t live here and don’t give a fuck back when I got started in my career and shit like that happened you were showed the door goodbye have a nice life
And that's what I said needs to still happen. I'd rather work late with good other workers than to have a bunch of half workers and then have to go back and fix it. Not saying this happened from one of our employees, but I'm not saying it didn't.
Rick, it was probably going to take them months to get the permits and the 7 people out there to supervise. They did what they had to to get by. 😂
Right 🙏👍👍😉
Dye is so stupid, they should learn to how to leak check. They even make it easy stupid these days with a dtek stratus.
Bingo 👍👍
Was that a wire in the drain , heater ? Love utube
Excellent channel ‘ stay polite
Heat tape.
I thought it was so bad that you had to pop your pill box out! Haha, makes a handy terminal box!
🤣👍👍
I have never ever seen Heat tape inside a PVC drain line inside a walk-in freezer.
And no trap
It probably was taped at one time. Did you notice the hole through the wall not sealed 🤣. This place is a dumpster fire.
Good Stuff Rick! Love the videos!
Thanks Ryan, It was the same person, this wasn't the first time.
I'm just getting into the refrigeration side(wine rooms), how,canmI tell if a door's seal is not good? What symptoms am I looking for?
Possibly high moisture in the box, most common is just visually inspected and see if it has tears, rips or gaps between the magnet and the door frame.
@@HVACRSurvival Thanks
As always thank you for the videos. You are my number one go to channel I learn tons from you as I’m coming up in the trade.
Awesome! Thank you!
the ring on the defrost clock seemed awfully floppy loose. I have a feeling you'll be back for that one( or someone else will). never seen them with the outer switch ring floppy loose like that and can only imagine it will be interment silly-ness. 🤔
It must of been the angle. It felt normal
@@HVACRSurvival it looked like it was wobbling all over when rotating it.
Hey man, do you know any good schools? I'd like to be a commercial tech in the future.
Or is it best to find a good apprenticeship? I ask too many questions lol
Apprenticeship is really good if they have it well developed. You’re gonna learn most of it in the field anyway, but you do need to understand the basics. I wouldn’t spend much more than 15 grand on school. Heck I spent 11 K back in 95 so it’s somewhere in the mid twenties to 30 now and there’s no way in hell I would spend that.
TOO
A pill organizer with no pills 😢😅😂
Small bag trick I learned on TH-cam so you know it’s gotta be good. 😆
PVC pipe for walk in freezer and not insulated.also i don't see the pipe heat element ! I don't know what to said.
Heat Tape was seen at the back of the coil and went down the drain hole. You also seen the heat tape when I repaired the drain line and had to pull the heat tape out to rerun the pipe. I mentioned we normally insulate it. This was not installed by us, they have problems paying there bills so I'm not spending any extra time or money than needed.
@@HVACRSurvival sorry Sir I am not saying you didn't do the job right! I mean the beginning of the video. The last person was doing the horrible job 😭. Misunderstood
It’s all good man.
Excellent fix rick 👍
Yea man, if you’re going to do a job. Do it right. Can’t believe how lazy some people are.
Great work . Half a** work brings money with it.
To, two, too.
Do you want a cookie? I could give two shits. Did you know what I meant? I fix shit for a living. I don’t get paid to pencil whip things.
I work on live stuff a lot but I use insulated tools , not sure if it actually makes it safer but at least it makes me "feel" safer 😅
@ 3:16 😂😂😂 always funny speaking of the last guys who were in there before you 😅
Rick, just before 10 minutes, I love your sarcasm. Yes, why can't it be done right the first time. Was it possible this was on the weekend and couldn't or did not have the parts and then there was no followup? However, no excuse for no followup. A lot of times I was not given a job because I would take too long but, I was always given plenty of time to go out and fix the screw-up. Keep your videos coming Rick.
no, because I know who did it and when they did it and I read the description of what they did and it was all f--king lies. That's why I pointed out what I pointed out. Oops I just gave it away. Oh, and did I mention this happens all the damn time. And nothing gets done about it.
🤣 I got a good chuckle out of the intro. Thanks for that, Rick
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Steve
Great 🎉 job.... Service work is always a pain when you got poor craftsmanship from installers and other people that take no pride in their work...
Proud of you 💯👊😎👊💯
Thanks brother 👍. cool name!
Hi Rick, I enjoy your videos especially the bitching which is mild to what I would say.
Well unfortunately, I had to cut out the real bitch session where it flew. But I have to do it and get it out of my system to make it mild again.
My old job was like that and being the tattle tale didn't even do any good. That's why I had to leave. It gets old especially when they do it on purpose and know better. Hope you're having a better day.
I deal with the same thing now.
Real techs work with live wires. Nice job as always bud.
Thanks 👍. I wont do over 250v total.
Great video. Thank you for sharing. Have a nice weekend
Thank you! You too!
Great job Rick
Great job Rick.
TURN AND RUN!!!!!! RUN FOR YOU'R DAM LIFE RICK!!!!!
Believe me, this is a deadbeat store. I would prefer not to even work at. That's the reason I didn't fix all the other shit. We have to collect every other time to get caught up if we even get caught up.
Cry baby lol forget about what other people are doing do what you have to
You either don’t get it or you’re that guy. At least I fixed it
@@HVACRSurvival 👍 good but Be happy that your doing the right thing. Your crying about doing the right thing which beats the purpose
I also hate when people cut corners. Working as a hvacr techie in Sweden. There's many times I use bad words and getting upset, specially when the company I work for gets new customers, and I come to their half-ass working units with many "mr handyman" solutions. And sometimes it's a big f***ing mess to sort it out. 😉
You're telling me they do things half assed and Sweden where everything is built with precision? What the hell??? I thought it was just us that did shit half ass.
@@HVACRSurvival To be honest. Some contractors cut corners here as well. I hate that. But most of the contractors makes good efforts (It's always some dirt in the cake no matter what). Still we got very narrow regulations about everything. I worked for an another hvacr company for not even a year, where we was told to cut corners, by the boss. I couldn't stand that, so I went for another hvacr company, where I'm still at.
I haven’t been told strait up to do it but I’ve felt it implied at times. But people know how ocd I am and I’m also hard on people when they do it so that makes it near impossible for me to be that way. I try to work the way I preach even when I don’t want to.
@@HVACRSurvival Welcome to the club of lovely ocd 😁