Unit Evaluation - Setting the baseline

Tony Shelton

BS Detector, Esquire
Here is a unit evaluation I made for a customer who has hired us to clean his condensers (586 of them). That's 12k or so, but there's more money on the table and when we make money, it saves the customer money in the long run.

I took the time to open each individual unit. It took two of us three 5 hour days to do.

The pictures show what happens when the filters are neglected. These are practically brand new buildings and already 1 out of 12 or so evaporators need to be cleaned and I found three frozen solid. This is because most of the tenants are not changing the filters at all.

I'm certain that this will get $3-4k in badly needed evaporator cleanings. If he goes with the filter service it will be another $29k per year.

Even if he does nothing but the condenser coil cleaning this time around the effort we took will not be forgotten and as the units start breaking down in the summer I'll keep stopping in his office and asking him how his units are doing.

Next year when it it time for condenser cleaning again he'll understand the value of what we are offering.


I'll leave this public on youtube for 3 or 4 days.

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Are we going to cover this is Vegas? at the vegas roundtable

I haven't started work on an agenda yet. I've been sick as a dog with the flu since Sunday and just got out of the house for the first time today (except doctor on Tuesday).

Ron, I've got some info on meeting rooms here I'd like to email you. What's the best way to email you?
 
Tony

Got to ask some questions that show my ignorance. The condenser on a commercial unit is up there in the unit? And the filters for the register air are also up there? Are the condensers easy to clean or trouble?

My friend is staying at a hotel and a company came in, into each room and cleaned out the condenser? He was very impressed they had a cart with hoses and hose connections and mini power washer guns and a vacuum hose. He said the system was like a machine, fast and organized and they just rolled through the property. I don't know if they were local or not.

What you do with the electrostatic filters, thats newer or less common in the ac market, correct?

Obama may be the best thing for the country right? God uses whomever he chooses right.
 
Tony

Got to ask some questions that show my ignorance. The condenser on a commercial unit is up there in the unit? And the filters for the register air are also up there? Are the condensers easy to clean or trouble?

My friend is staying at a hotel and a company came in, into each room and cleaned out the condenser? He was very impressed they had a cart with hoses and hose connections and mini power washer guns and a vacuum hose. He said the system was like a machine, fast and organized and they just rolled through the property. I don't know if they were local or not.

What you do with the electrostatic filters, thats newer or less common in the ac market, correct?

Obama may be the best thing for the country right? God uses whomever he chooses right.

Condensers are always outside. If the condenser and evaporator are packaged on the roof in one unit it is called a "package unit". That type of unit is prevalent on one story buildings.

"Split units" are units that have the condenser outside and the air handler inside the building connected by copper tubes that carry the freon between the two.

Most one story buildings in this area have all package units. Two story and up usually have a combination of the two.

Changing filters in a inside air handler up in the ceiling panels is a major PITA. We try to avoid them. If we take them on, we charge accordingly.

The best option with split units is like you described with registers below, but some buildings ust the space between the ceiling and the drop ceiling as the plenum and the filters get changed in the air handler up in the ceiling. PITA.

Those hotel units are a different goose. I don't even think you have to have license to work on those in most states, they are just window units. I haven't looked into doing those. My guess is they are using something similar to carpet cleaning equipment to clean them. (Which probably works great).
 
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