Bryan interviews Chris with A/C Easy Tee about a game-changing drain-cleaning product. The A/C Easy Tee is a PVC fitting that allows you to access the top of the drain line and easily connect a shop vac, hose, or source of compressed air for cleaning.
With the A/C Easy Tee, you just need to use a straight fitting with a shop vac, and you can clean the drain pan. The product also comes with an angle tool to block a path to the air handler to force the water or compressed gases out to the end of the drain. Hose nozzles also fit in the Easy Tee.
The Easy Tee differs from your typical 3/4" tee because it's mounted on the line differently and is a lot more functional as a result; the Easy Tee makes it much easier to access the upper part of the drain than a traditional tee and has a tapered design. However, it works well with two access points, including a traditional tee, to clean out the whole drain.
Initially, A/C Easy Tee wasn't supposed to work on condensate pumps, but a pump adaptation has been in development.
You can purchase the kit with the adapters, but you can also purchase tees individually at supply houses or in a contractor pack of 20. The tees are fitted with high-quality O-ring seals and are secure.
You can purchase the A/C Easy Tee contractor pack on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Tee-Contractor-Pack/dp/B0752YWW1F/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ac+easy+tee&qid=1597940882&sr=8-1, but you can also learn more about the product and company at https://aceasytee.com/.
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With the A/C Easy Tee, you just need to use a straight fitting with a shop vac, and you can clean the drain pan. The product also comes with an angle tool to block a path to the air handler to force the water or compressed gases out to the end of the drain. Hose nozzles also fit in the Easy Tee.
The Easy Tee differs from your typical 3/4" tee because it's mounted on the line differently and is a lot more functional as a result; the Easy Tee makes it much easier to access the upper part of the drain than a traditional tee and has a tapered design. However, it works well with two access points, including a traditional tee, to clean out the whole drain.
Initially, A/C Easy Tee wasn't supposed to work on condensate pumps, but a pump adaptation has been in development.
You can purchase the kit with the adapters, but you can also purchase tees individually at supply houses or in a contractor pack of 20. The tees are fitted with high-quality O-ring seals and are secure.
You can purchase the A/C Easy Tee contractor pack on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Tee-Contractor-Pack/dp/B0752YWW1F/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ac+easy+tee&qid=1597940882&sr=8-1, but you can also learn more about the product and company at https://aceasytee.com/.
Read all the tech tips, take the quizzes, and find our handy calculators at https://www.hvacrschool.com/.
I'm here with chris from ezt ac, ezt, easy ac ezt and we're going to talk about what ac ezt is and how it works. Ac ezt is a pvc fitting. Most of all, our products use a three quarter inch: pvc pipe. You can tee this right on the air handler gives you the ability to clean it out from here.
You can use this straight fitting with a shop vac. It's versatile stick this in here and vacuum it out. Okay, so this actually goes. This actually passes through.
So that way, you can actually clean out the drain panel, with a shop vacuum suck out your drain, pan yeah, and on the flip side, when you go with the angle tool, you can stick this in here and it blocks it off to the air handler and Forces, the okay all right, so this would be you know: nitrogen uh, air pressure or whatever, and you have the other option of a hose hose nozzle fits in there and you can flush it with a hose depending on which region you're in i, you know, didn't Realize this whole everybody does something a little bit yeah they do. Yeah yeah do not bring a hose in my house, so you use nitrogen or a shop vac, and you can shop back it from the outside and then hit it from the inside. With the light nitrogen and get stuff moving, but it is on an older system - that's got a lot of build up. You should put some chemical in there and help break up that stuff.
Uh, the there's drain cleaners and the new bright blue works good and with the diversity product that mastercraft works very well, and so what makes this tea different than like a typical three-quarter inch tee that you're that you're gon na find glad you asked a typical tee. Is right here which traditionally forever has been mounted on the line like this and you can't it's not functional. You could stick something in there at an angle and try and blow it out, but you're. You know generally you'll see this with a pvc cap on it, but you can't clean it out and originally the first ezt was put here the first down point, because when it's here you can just pour your chemical in it.
So this is ideal to have both right and you can pull your chemical in there flush it out, but this was getting neglected. You know stuff can build up in here. So if you have two points of access, you can clean this out and flush. The drain on both both measures - and it looks like this is this - is kind of specifically designed to accept the cleaners.
Is it actually tapered? Yes, it is oh okay, so inside the pvc it's actually tapered, which is unlike a typical t, okay, and we did experiment. I wanted this to work. I wanted to come up with a tool that went into a standard tee, okay, but the id is different between spears, alaska and et cetera, so different brands are different and you can't make one. This gave you a good seal, so we had to make our own tea to facilitate that huh.
So actually it sounds to me like um, it's kind of a standard tee that you would keep on an install truck or service truck. This would just be the standard t that you'd keep them yeah. I have an ac company is why i come up with this and we use them on every install and then every time we touch a drain. We put one on it's built into our cost. To go out to do it and then on a recall i mean you have a system that you just did a premium tune-up on it can back up, there's all that build up in there. So you do come out you're there. You know five minutes and you get a good flush and your technician isn't trying to avoid cutting it back apart again, which it needs to be cut back apart again, if it doesn't have this right to do it right right originally, when i wrote the instructions for This, i said you know, but do not use on condensate pumps, but i realize you know a lot of the market uses pumps, so i have a pump sitting here to show you how you can use it on a pump this hose fitting with that hole there. You can stick it in there to pressurize it with a hose, and then you can put this fitting in here.
It has a hole in the side. So when you stick your shot back in here and turn it on you're going to get the suction plus the pressure of this blowing it through it, so it gives you a really good flush, and typically that would have this is this is showing the waterless trap, But typically, typically, you'd have a p-trap, an actual trap yeah, but they wanted to showcase their waterless trap because it's clear you could see and also has their treated rope that has silver and copper in it. Yeah, that's copperhead yeah we're going to show that in the next on this end. You can take this straight fitting and stick it in here, and it isolates this and then, when you take a shot back, you can suck your pump out all the standing water can get sucked out.
You can hit the other side with the pump sprayer and flush it to the corner. Okay, typically, if it's dirty, it should be pulling clean, clean yeah, but you know on a maintenance issue and your commercial or something you're there, every three months. It's a quick way to do your service got it another bonus um. We get crack drain pans.
So with this thing, in this location or in the down location, you can plug your drain by sticking that in there and then you can fill the pan with water. I would actually test it interesting without cutting anything yeah generally, we'll cut it cap it and all yeah, and what we do is we take a gallon of water and we'll put some food coloring in it, so it's red or blue or green, and pour the blue Water in there and if it drips blue, we know it's a cracked pan without having to physically pull the coil and guess at it. Interesting it's just a time. Saver and a little insurance got it.
So can you buy the teas separately from the services you can? The tees are sold. This is a 20 pack here for contractors, it's the most economical way to buy them, they're sold individually in supply houses, and the kit is sold like this. It comes with both fittings and the nitrogen adapter in one kit. Interesting - and this is all you need on the service truck to do your work. Another thing i wanted to show over here is that the the caps actually have a seal in them. They actually have an o-ring in them. It's a high-quality, buna o-ring. I did that because o-rings crack and rubbers you know, can be fail on you, but that you know o-ring is uh.
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