Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre Q a live stream. If you're old enough, grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not, stick with apple juice. put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat.

and now let's cue up the intro music. Thank you Swords, thank you thank you thank you Foreign foreign how are you guys doing I Hope that you guys are doing well. Hopefully you guys are having a nice Memorial Day weekend and uh, let's not forget the reason for the holiday of course. Um, it has been a nice weekend for me I wasn't on call this weekend and uh, got to hang out, do some stuff around the house, got some housework, done some house projects, um, finished up and edited the video.

my third part of my house HVAC video was up. If you guys haven't seen that, you definitely want to go to the channel. but there's going to be lots of spoilers in here because we're going to be talking all about it. so it is what it is.

But um, yeah, I Uploaded I filmed um a good part of that video on Saturday morning and I had actually filmed a good part of that video all the way back in December and then just never edit it. and then when it was time to start making that video I went back to the footage and I realized it has Christmas trees and Christmas decorations in the background and it was like oh yeah, that's kind of awkward. So I re-shot it it was I hadn't done anything since then so it wasn't a big deal. blower door number was still the same.

all that good stuff so it all worked out. Uh, Friendly neighborhood maintenance man. Thank you very much for being a channel supporter for so long. I Really do appreciate that if you guys are watching this depending on what social media platform you're on, um, it's all good.

I could care less which platform you watching on I Just will say that like if you're on Facebook you have to authorize Facebook to use your name. otherwise it just says Facebook user if you're on LinkedIn uh Facebook um yeah, it's LinkedIn and Facebook Um, it's it's cool. But the thing is is that there is currently right now just about a hundred people in the YouTube chat or in the YouTube live stream and there's a whole chat going on over there. So again, feel free but you might feel like you're missing out if you're not on the YouTube stream.

Okay, uh, this this streams. All my social media platforms are all under Hvacr videos so if you just go to YouTube Hvacr videos, You'll see the live video will pop up right away and then you can see the actual chat. So lots of familiar people in the chat today. I See, Um, hello everybody I Hope that you guys are having a good weekend.

Um, it was definitely a cool one. Like I said, got some housework done, some little projects here and there satisfied some Curiosities in my brain and I'm going to address some of those too. Uh, currently right now I got way too many fires going um I'm currently remodeling my backyard I shouldn't say I right I have people doing the work in my backyard but it's still a lot of work. My wife and I both are having to make a lot of decisions.

Go get a lot of plants and different things and and then our whole yard is just chaos right now because it's just been a couple weeks, you know? so hopefully within this next week. I Think we're gonna have 90 of it done. and then we just got to work on a a hill that I have in my backyard that needs to be re-landscaped so we'll be doing that as time goes on, but it's going to be nice to have my yard back. My dogs have been banished from the backyard for almost a month now.

Um, and uh, so I'm sure they'll be happy to get back out into the main yard. So yeah, but it's been just nice, you know. Just as they've been finishing things up, we've been being able to see our yard get finished even more and more. and it's really cool and we're not doing anything extreme.

we just I used to I I live on a half acre and um, it was all grass before and we reduced it completely down. so I took all the grass out of the front yard, made it all desertscape, eliminated a lot of water usage up there and then in my backyard I'd say I probably took out maybe 40 percent of the grass uh, you know and still left quite a big piece of grass, but probably took about 40 percent of it and then uh, put a bunch of desertscape and decompose granite and different things all around the yard so it's been cool. hello Scott Thank you very much for that super chat I really do appreciate you. um Scott's a good friend of mine.

he says hit that like button to show support and that is a really important thing no matter what social media Creator you are following any interaction is better than no interaction. Okay, of course, don't be jerks in people's chats and different things, but you know, uh, interact with their content and it helps them on all the different social media platforms. So if you're watching this, give it a thumbs up. Whatever platform you're watching on, it'll definitely help out the channel to grow.

Okay, so for the new people that are coming in right now I Do these live streams Monday evenings typically work permitting and you know, sometimes I take holidays off, but today I didn't. But we do these live streams on Monday evenings to just kind of answer and consolidate questions on my channel. Okay, obviously I make YouTube videos under the the social media platforms Hvacr videos on all of them and uh I get a lot of questions and a lot of emails and so I like to consolidate a lot of the more common questions and answer them on a live format. and it just kind of is better this way because I can interact with the chat.

So if you guys do have questions or things you want me to talk about, do me a favor and put them in the comments section and put them in caps lock caps lock Helps me to see what's an actual question for me and what's a conversation between other people because there's always great conversations going on in the live chat too. And I welcome that you know, don't don't feel like you're offending me. I know the whole routine. You know there's a whole nother side to these live streams and that's the live chat.

People are helping each other out, answering each other's questions. That kind of stuff. So um, let me see, that's funny. You'll see.

uh, we have another side yard. So we have a side yard that they've been banished to for the last couple weeks. So uh, let's see what else Happy Memorial Day It says cool right on. So um, one thing I want to talk about? um and let me answer this question.

It says the place you work ahead. Um, so uh, Cleison I don't know if that's how you say your name. He says that the place that he works at has an air handler and when it runs out of one of the vents, it's Extremely Loud He's curious what causes that uh, the the the velocity of the air is moving too fast for the type of the grill and it's making some sort of resonating sound or whistling sound is what? I'm assuming. So they definitely have some airflow work to do within the ductwork.

That's probably what's causing it. You know it could be something. Again, this is a very loaded question. and I don't know your circumstances, But essentially, if you're moving air at two, uh, too high of a velocity, too fast, right? and it's moving past metal objects or, um, you know, a supply register is way too close to the actual air handler.

Things like that, those can all cause loud air coming out of the vents. Um, you know, obviously undersized duct work oversized equipment can all add to it too. Okay, so as equipment gets more efficient, right as we're increasing the Energy Efficiency of stuff, we need to be more and more precise. When we are calculating the sizing of our equipment, we need to make sure that we are sizing things right also.

So I've been going through this process on my home HVAC Project right and learning more and more about the building science side of things and learning more and more about load calculations now. I've done load calculations in the past and I thought I was doing them right. But when I actually started doing the research and my buddy Adam Muffet has been helping me too and explaining things. and then I have a lot of other good friends in high places and they've been trying to help me to understand the equipment sizing.

I realized that all of the equipment as far as air conditioning goes that I have sized in the past I've sized incorrectly and I've oversized. Okay, and it makes sense because on the equipment that I have installed in the past. basically. um, actually I didn't install the equipment in this house, but I installed the equipment in my mom's house I installed the equipment in my office and all of it's oversized.

And you know, because I was afraid of the load calculations right? I've been having to come to terms with the fact that we need to trust the science. Okay, if you input the correct data, the math is not going to lie when you figure a load calculation for your house, but it's so important that you input the right data. So for those that don't know, I've been replacing the air conditioner in my house and it's been a thought process now. My brain works differently than a lot of other people's okay.

when I am not in a rush I prefer to do things at my own pace and it takes me a long time. So I've been working on this home HVAC project for coming up on a year now. Okay, but it wasn't until probably January that I actually ordered my equipment maybe even February that I actually ordered my equipment. It was a long process of me educating myself, learning how to use a blower door and what a blower door can tell me how to use a duck Blaster What a duck! Blaster can tell me how to interpolate data you know.

Learning about the stack effect and all this stuff has been very enlightening and it's it. just takes me time to process all of it and come to conclusions and come to decisions. So on my last YouTube video, I went ahead and made it public which I've been sharing little hints over the last couple weeks here and there. Some people have caught on to them, some people haven't but I decided to reveal the equipment that I chose for my house.

Okay, so I took in this last video that actually just released. it was actually today. no yesterday. yeah, yesterday's today's Monday Um, but in the video that I released I decided that I was going to go with Carrier Infinity equipment.

okay and I also revealed that we calculated the um the load for my house and I came in right just I'm talking 2000 BTUs above for the heating load A two ton heat pump system. Okay, uh, my cooling load I'm right at the number as far as my actual cooling load. Okay, so um, a lot of people when I revealed in that video were a little bit concerned and frustrated. There's a lot of comments back and forth and there's a lot of reasons as to why I did things okay.

Now I'm going to get to the comments in the chat real quick and then I'll get back to my story. Okay, so let's see what we got going on in here: Is the house slab on grade? Yes, it is slab on grade meaning that I have a con concrete slab right and the house is sitting right on the slab. So yes, isn't a half ton oversized acceptable And we're going to get into that right now. Okay, now first and foremost, I'm going to say that I am not the utmost expert, right? But I do have General understandings and that's what I'm going to go into here in just a few minutes.

Okay, um, and and you know I'm not perfect and I know I absolutely know that I'm gonna have problems with my Carrier Infinity system. Okay, because every system is going to have a problem. I'm going to do the best job that I can, installing it right and also having some fun with installation. And maybe some of my installation stuff might mess some stuff up.

But you want to know? The really cool thing about all of this is I'm documenting the entire process and I can promise you that I'm going to document everything that happens to my home system even if it's my own fault because I've clearly shown all of you guys that I'm not afraid to show my mistakes. I'm not a afraid to show my weaknesses because every time I get corrected and told that I did something wrong, Guess what? It's a bummer, but it's also something cool because it's an opportunity to learn. Okay, so I'm I'm not a person to be afraid of showing people my vulnerability. so I'm going to show you guys the whole process.

Okay, keep going through the chat real quick. Uh, do I take power factor into consideration When selecting equipment for home? No. I did not take power factor into my uh, consideration on that. Okay, um, let's see.

All right. So why did I go with the two ton and why don't I just put in a three ton inverter system and let it ramp down to the two-ton load? Okay, the system. Now again. I'm not an expert at this, but the system is designed to operate within its entire range.

Okay, it's designed to run at a really low low range and it's designed to run at a really high range as far as BTU output. Okay, and we want to make sure that we're getting the full use of that range. We're talking from the lowest to the highest. Okay, the Energy Efficiency is obviously going to come in into play with that, right? So you want to make sure you're putting the right size equipment in your home.

Now, there's some things that I am taking a gamble on, right? My heating load is ever so slightly low, right? and I'm going to get into that in a few minutes. I could put in supplementary heat strips right? That could Aid as a backup in a really low ambient condition and can also Aid as a help during defrost to kind of temper the air when it does go into defrost because I am installing a heat pump. Okay, I could do that, but I don't want to. Okay: I'm not going to be installing heat strips in the beginning on my system because I'm using this as an experiment and I want to learn through this process.

So I did my best to get the equipment size correctly. When we made a selection, we chose the Carrier Infinity system. It's the Vna4 system. Um, and uh now I want to install it to the best of my ability and let it operate.

and I want to see the system's data I want to see the numbers I realize that I can install a heat strip right now and just not use it, but it's there when I need it. but I just don't want to go through the extra effort right now. Okay, what I will do is when I install my air handler because I currently have a gas-fired furnace and it's 115 volts. So I am going to have to pull new power to my air handler.

actually have the breaker sitting back here because I have Old Cutler Hammer Breakers So I had a special order them. Um, but uh, I'm making sure that everything's going to be sized appropriately. The wire size is going to be appropriate in case I have to add the heat strips in the future. but I'm just not going to install them yet is the idea with my system? again? it's going to come out I am going to install voltage phase monitors I'm I'm sorry voltage monitors and surge protectors I'm installing all of that.

Okay, I'm gonna go crazy with that kind of stuff. So I'm going to do everything I can to protect the equipment. but I do know that there's going to be issues now. One of the cool things look: I'm paying for my system I I did not take any discounts.

carrier doesn't know who I am right? They don't even know what HVAC videos is. so I'm not asking for anything from anybody I paid for it myself. it was stupid expensive. Okay and I'll tell you right now for my two ton system in California Okay, I paid a little over eight grand.

Okay I know that's expensive I know that's not dealer pricing right? but I didn't want to have any obligations to a distributor or a manufacturer I wanted this to be a true raw opinion of my equipment I could have started emailing people and asking for discounts and asking for better prices and stuff, but I didn't right? I went back and forth. That was a lot of the decision making with this entire project. Okay, now the only thing I did do is I made a deal with both of the um, uh, blower door companies right? Retrotech and the Energy Conservatory and they loaned me all of their tools. Okay, um, that's that's really the only deals that I have on this.

Okay, so um, and I'm and I'm learning through the process. Okay, but I I did make a deal with both of those companies and they both understood that this wasn't going to be about whose tools were better. That's the coolest thing about this was when I made that deal with him I said this is not about showing your tool or your tool or saying they're the best. this is more or less showing the process of how I learn.

And here's the tools that you can use in this. Okay, so both of them know that they're going to be in these videos. Um, so it's It's just a cool process, but that's the only deal I made with anybody. Everything else I'm paying for out of my own pocket.

Okay, so let's see what else we got going on in the chat real quick. Um, okay. cool. I'm reading through right now.

Uh, reading through the chat heat strips easy enough on those, but you don't know how often I need head heat let alone back up? Yeah, so my climate I mean our design temperature is actually like 37 degrees Fahrenheit where I'm at. but in reality it doesn't get that cold on average. Like This was one of the coldest winters that we had and uh I think that on average it was 45 48 degrees all winter. Okay, now of course there were some extreme days where it was cold and we had some rain and stuff.

but it's I want to experiment with this and I want to see with these new heat pumps that we have, right? Because heat pumps are different from when I was a kid coming up in the trade right? they would freeze up. They were just horrible, right? But now we've got these amazing or this amazing technology and all these different heat pumps and I'm sorry, but a lot of the manufacturers they you know. Yeah they have different names but they really are all the same. Concepts Okay, it's just a matter of what components they choose to put in their systems.

They're all really doing the same thing. So anyways I chose carrier infinity and uh I I again I may put the heat strips in after the fact, but not quite yet. Okay, so let's see what else we got going on in the chat. Um, see what I'm missing Am I going to make a hula hoop? Oh no no.

I'm not going to make a hula hoop I'll leave that one for Jennifer Okay, all right, um, let's see what else. All right. So why go through? So when it comes to my system? No. I didn't want to oversize the inverter I'm not trying to throw crap at the wall to hope that it sticks I want to design this and follow the codes and the standards as much as possible.

and again to preface this on the system. um Adam My buddy Adam from the overtime show Adam Muffin is like, you know, doing 40 of the work on this project. I'm doing the physical work and Adam has been really helping to be a go-between for the education side and he's really been helping me to understand more and more about sizing my system. He did the load calculation for me I Bought software to do the load calculation just so that I could simply show you guys right? but I'm not the one really inputting everything I bought it.

Uh, we're using the quick model software not being paid for any of that stuff, but it's a really cool 3D modeling software that has uh, load calculations in it too. So it did a really awesome job. but Adam's been helping me with almost all of that stuff. So um, let's see.

Jason says most people don't know that those hyper heat models the extra heat produced in cold temps is due to the inverter speeding the compressor up to 200 300 percent. Yeah, and it is amazing. So my system, the Infinity System has a DC compressor that's completely controlled by an inverter and it's going to ramp up and slow down. Okay and you know and I'm gonna say this too, right? and I'm not trying to be a jerk, but but a lot of people are like dude, you're going to have so many problems with the carriers.

Why? Like people are asking me, why did I go with these systems that take proprietary parts and stuff because it it I Want to try the new technology I Like new technology but at the same time it's awesome footage. If it breaks, you guys get to see it. You guys are going to get my real opinions and I thought about that when I was choosing systems. Now of course I didn't choose what I thought to be the worst.

I'm hoping that my system is really awesome, but if it turns out you know there's problems with it. I'll get footage of it and it'll be cool. You guys will see my real opinions. So um, all right, let me cross off a couple questions that I already answered.

So I answered that when I got a list right here next to me. So why going through like Okay, so this is a question that I got a lot in the comments. Surprisingly too, this video did amazing on Tick Tock the little smoke video showing the air leakage and stuff. Uh, but you know I got so many comments from people saying that I'm wasting time by using all these fancy tools that I should just put a new system in and just be done with it.

Okay, but here's the thing. Our industry has been struggling for so long and they haven't been following the proper procedures. We as an industry have been doing things incorrectly for a very, very long time and that needs to change. And and I'm trying to change that now.

I Started in the industry doing things incorrectly right and I was taught that way, but we grew out of it, right? You know the industry was different back then and we need to make sure we're doing things right, especially with this new technology in this equipment. It's so important that we install everything right? So I've been trying to do that now when it comes to why measuring you know blower, door numbers and stuff because I knew that I wanted to reduce the size of my equipment and I wanted to make a dramatic effect I knew that my four ton cooling system with a hundred thousand BTU furnace in my 1800s square foot home in Southern California single story. Okay, it doesn't need a four ton and it doesn't need a hundred thousand BTU furnace I bet. Well I know that we can get away for 24 000 BTUs on the heating load for this house.

Okay, it's like 24 23 000 BTUs it's like right at right at the edge. Okay and the cooling load is right at 23 000 BTUs So you know my house doesn't need a four ton and so that's why I wanted to use a blower door I wanted to measure and see so that way I can better understand and learn I don't do well learning just from Reading I Like to experience things I like to get my hands in there and it helps me to grow. You know? Let me tell you one of the best motivators when I'm filming footage and this just gives you an insight to me. Okay I was filming the footage for Sunday's video on Saturday morning.

okay and I started filming and I started making mistakes right? just little ones and then I was like oh shoot I need to I need to be better but it was almost like a fear inside of me. like I don't want to show completely incorrect stuff so I dive deeper and deeper and deeper as you know within reason to understand things better and you know so the the the videos you guys that watch this stuff actually motivate me to do better Because sometimes yeah, you know that person that told me why I'm wasting all this time and you know, wasting all this this energy doing what I'm doing and I should just throw a system in there I mean there's a tiny bit in my brain that thinks that way there is, you know. But knowing that I've got I get to film it and stuff that motivates me to want to do better. So I'm not this perfect person.

but but why go through all that trouble? Because if we know the air leakage right under living conditions in our homes, we measure at 50 Pascals. Okay, and we can figure out the leakage rate depending on whether or not we're pressurizing or depressurizing the house. We can measure that and then we can quantify that into something that we can imagine in our head. you know? So um, I can sit down and do the math and I can quantify my blower door number and tell you guys that it's you know this size of a hole like that's the kind of cool stuff that you can do to help people better visualize things.

But let me tell you something. once I started going down the path of doing the blower door on my house, the hamster kept spinning in my brain and I'm calling my friends over at the Energy Conservatory and I'm like guys, how does this work and they're taking the time to explain things to me I can't tell you how many conversations I had with the Energy Conservatory and they were just simply educating me right and helping me to understand. but then it gets my brain thinking so something that's really interesting and I showed in one of the videos and I and I said it in the video I think it was maybe the second video when I was um, looking at my existing furnace us and I'm watching it I'm using a smoke pen and I'm noticing that it's pulling air into my return right? because my return, my furnace is not sealed to the the plywood that it's sitting on, so it's pulling air underneath. So that kind of stuff gets me thinking going well.

I wonder how much that air because that's open to the attic, right? Because it's uh, the combustion air comes from the attic for my furnace closet and uh, you know, so how much of my existing system is is being decreased because of that? Like that's the kind of stuff that starts going and it gets really interesting when you start going down that rabbit hole. So measuring air leakage should be a standard in all homes now. I Thought that way before I did this home project but it just further Quantified it in my head we need to be measuring every single home just because it's a housing track, just because you know they were all built at the same time, doesn't mean every one of those houses is the same. Things can happen, things can change, change, people can inadvertently mess things up, and infiltration is a huge variable when it comes to sizing our equipment.

Okay, so measuring air leakage into the home is critical and I absolutely hate regulations. but I really think it should be mandatory for every install? I Really do? Um, because if we make something like that mandatory, you know then we can start being better in installing better And you know, helping you know, reduce the load on the energy grid. All right. So let's keep going here.

Um, so I already answered those two questions. Uh, you know these tools that I'm using Are they a waste of money? No. I mean you know for the for the if, as long as you're buying them for the job, tools are are something that can help you greatly. Okay, and I think that I'm really seeing this Amplified right now because you know in the beginning of my channel I used to get people telling me to stop making videos or getting frustrated at me.

Um, you know and I'm starting to see that coming out in this video, people just being frustrated and I really think that it's because of a fear of wanting to learn something new and the reason why I think that is is because I kind of feel it inside too. Um, and I You know tools are great I Really think tools help us, You know? and they help me to better understand things. So I don't think tools are a waste of time, you know or money when it comes to these, you know? Energy Efficiency Measurement Tools No, Um, let me see. uh Jason Johnson says he remembers when he was still an install.

the hers rated certified um, it at 1.6 air leakage on a four ton system with 16 supplies and four returns. Wow. Um, all right let's see what else we got going on in here. Okay, so um I got a lot of people asking me about the the smoke pen that I was using in the video on Sunday and it's uh, it's from the energy Conservatory it's a fog puffer.

Uh, you can get it from Truetechtools.com and it's it. Looks silly, but it's actually pretty genius the way that it was because they tried to make a very inexpensive smoke pen. Okay, and what they actually did was they, uh, they took an E-cigarette and engineered it into the fog puffer and then put a fluid in there and they use a turkey baster with an air Inlet on it and it's like a super super low-cost smoke puffer and it's pretty genius. All you got to do is charge the E-cigarette put it back in there, and it's a really cool little thing.

So you definitely want to go check that out. Just go to the uh, Truetechtools.com look at the uh, the Energy Conservatories tool section or Tec and look up for their fog puffer. Uh, it's really cool. I don't know if anybody can put a link for that in the chat.

Any of the moderators that really cool? Um see what else we got going on in the chat? Have I ever had a unit leak under vacuum? but under pressure doesn't leak? huh? you know? I I may have had something like that. some that sounds familiar, but you know what starts to happen with me as I hear so many stories from you. all that are sharing them in emails and different things that sometimes they start to cloud my judgment. Did that actually happen to me? or was that a story that I heard where someone said that something would hold a vacuum? I would really start questioning your connections, your hoses, your gaskets, that kind of stuff of course.

First see what else? uh um, why not install? Oh I already answered that one. Um and again I'll answer it because I know there's a lot of new people in here. Why? why do I not want to install heat strips on my system? The the heating load is about I think 2000 BTUs or something like that under uh, or over what? The system can deliver right? The capacity of my equipment can only produce so much and uh, the house actually requires a little bit more heating capacity. but I decided to go with a smaller unit rather than the massively oversize my unit.

and um I'm not going to put in supplementary heat strips because I want to see and experience how it operates without them first. It's like a big experiment for me. So um I realized that during defrost we might run into some issues where it might take a little bit longer to defrost the coil and stuff. That makes sense I want to experience that? So this is just kind of a fun project for me.

um Mike had asked me why I replaced all my lights in my house and he doesn't understand that. he. he's saying basically the cost of the lights versus the energy I'm Gonna Save just seems silly, but I think he's missing the point I I didn't change all my lights to save electricity in that aspect I changed all my lights to help air seal the infiltration coming from the attic because there was massive air leakage around my existing can lights and so putting those LED inserts was a solution where I got a more efficient bulb. but then also, um, had, uh, an air sealed can light.

It's airtight. Well, pretty airtight now so that reduced the blower door number the amount of leakage on in my house. So that's really why I changed the can lights. What's to be able to air seal? um Henrich Is really worried that my load calculation is not enough for my house and he says that he worries about heat gain from my appliances and he's curious how long it will take for my system to cool down the house well during Peak load conditions.

My system is basically designed to run 24 7. okay, under Peak right? But that doesn't happen very often, you know? So my system is going to run be via the inverter and slow down and ramp in theory at a low rate almost all the time constantly tempering the air in the house. Um, so I don't know how long it's going to take. it's going to take a while, but this is all part of the experiment so you know.

But what are the odds that you're really going to be pulling your house down from 100 degrees down to 74 in a day? That's not going to happen really. what you're going to do is maintain the temperature. So um, Caden was really curious if air leakage inside my house is really that big of a deal. I Got a lot of people asking me about the video where I use the smoke puffer and they were saying what's the point because that type of an air handler is basically going to be under a negative pressure for most of the air handler and that is true.

but if it's under a negative air pressure then it's going to pull air from somewhere else, right? It's going to pull air from the walls. It's going to pull air from the attic. In my situation, if I didn't fix my house, it would pull air from the attic because there's combustion vents going into there. Okay, so air sealing is very, very important and you know I got a lot of questions too.

Like that was stupid. The video that people are saying it's stupid. The video that I made where I was testing just my air handler. Why? like I don't understand why people think that was stupid.

you guys. these videos are really just the workings of my brain, right? Stuff's not always going to make sense to everybody else. Why I do things I'm particular or particular, right? I'm really weird, so you know I that's cool I think it's good footage, so that's why I'm doing that just to kind of measure it I'm curious, you know. I'd love to get my hands on a 80 furnace and measure the air leakage on that.

I'd love to get my hands on all kinds of other equipment, you know? Um, let me see what else we got going on in the chat. Did the load calc include my office? No, we did. We decided not to use the added heat load from my office in the load calc of my existing system because I plan on adding a supplementary system into my office. That was my decision.

so instead of keeping it part of the load, we are going to make it its own supplementary system eventually. Okay, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. We'll get to that. Probably not this summer.

I'll just deal with it through the summer. maybe next year or something. Um, we'll get to that. But the thought behind that was let's say that someday I outgrow this office in my own house and I stay here.

Well then now this room is going to be over cooled and overheated. Uh, because it was going to be designed for a computer system and I don't think that this studio is going to be in this office for the existence of the time that I'm living here. I do plan on moving the studio into a different area. so I don't want to design the house just for that crazy load I wanted to Design This House As if anybody else was going to live here with a normal family.

Okay, and we did take into account the bedrooms, the occupancy or the you know, occupants and the um, the appliances too. That is all part of the heat load calculation that we did for the house. So um, Mike B says he sees a Mr Cool system in the future for the office. Oh man.

I would love to install a Mr Cool system and just leave the line set coiled up on the side of my house just for the internet to blow up. Uh, do I still have combustion air in that closet? Uh no, there's no water heater in that closet. The only thing that is in my house is in a utility closet. In the occupied space is is my furnace.

That's it. My water heater is actually out in the garage. So um what I'm gonna do actually too? Uh well. anyway.

see I'm not going to go into that because that's for future videos, but we've got to do. We've got to bring fresh air also into this new system. So we're going to be bringing fresh air and we're going to do it a little bit different. You know, probably not the smartest way.

but you'll see. Um, all right, let me see what else we got going on in here. That's funny. How often have I used the wrong contactor like in the I let the Smoke Out video.

Um, it doesn't happen that often. I Mean you guys have basically documented my work for the last three or four years. I Mean if it's if I did it, it was usually in a video. So um, Dustin says that he had to slightly adjust his home's load because his son is a gamer and it's starting to impact his comfort.

Yeah, and that is something again. I'm gonna have to add a supplementary unit into here for that. So um, all right. Uh Drew Said do not use flexible duct work because it will reduce or it will have less CFM is exactly what he said.

uh Drew Flexible ductwork is pretty common in my area and uh, if installed correctly, Flex Duct does work you. You have uh, factors that go into Flex Duct. you have pressure drop, You have things you have to be consider. but if you install it correctly which I'm gonna hope and try to do my best installing it I think Flex Duct is going to work just fine.

Okay, but hey, if it doesn't it'll make for great content for you. So uh Misha said that he has designed and installed over a hundred million dollars in equipment and he thinks my load calculation is too small. I Can't tell you how many of these comments I got I Probably can't tell you it's probably four or five from different people using a number to kind of impress me to say that they know what they're doing because they've installed over this much money and Equipment Okay, that? sorry. okay um, we're using the science and we're trusting the science.

If I'm wrong, then you guys are all going to see it and you're gonna get and I'll make the footage of it. Okay, but we're trusting the science and doing the load calculation for my house. So um, a couple more questions. Uh, why didn't I just install mini splits in my entire house? Honestly, the mini split thing just having them in every room I'm just not into the look I'm just not.

Maybe someday, just not something. But there's some other factors of the Mini Splits too, the amount of work that's going to go into running line sets to every mini split and making sure that those line sets are accessible right? because um, you know if you install them on a wall, then the line sets are going to have to go up. and if you ever have to pull the head off, you know you got to think about all that stuff. So um I really wanted to go with the forced air system I really wanted to have Central return I Like that and that's what we're doing.

So um Trevor had suggested that I install voltage monitors on the equipment. That's a hundred percent part of the plan. voltage monitors and surge protectors on my equipment for sure. So um, all right.

cool. Let's see what else the chat has to say. Um Flex ducts should be sized for four percent compression. You can deliver the air 100 and then also I learned too that uh, for Flex duct to actually work correctly too, you're actually supposed to stretch the duct for a certain period of time to allow it to completely pull the memory as much as possible out.

and that actually is factored into the air delivery of Flex duct. So that's something that I Never knew until we started doing this research and learning that yeah, to do a proper install Flex deck. You're actually supposed to give it a nice stretch for a certain period of time to try to help to pull off the memory and you'll get the best performance out of it when you do that. So that's something cool that I learned.

Um, Vrf is uh, where it's at said Joshua So it's interesting Joshua Because I got a challenge because my dad is watching me do this project for my house and my dad lives by the ocean. so he lives in a total different climate. see here in Southern California we have a micro climate. we have Micro climates all over the place.

So I live in the Inland region. it gets you know, 110 115 degrees in the Summer where my dad lives. it's like 85 degrees in the summer. okay um, it's by the coast and they have a lot of humidity and he told me that he wants Vrv Mini Splits all in his place because he has like a three bedroom two-story town home.

So I'm kind of intrigued by the challenge. but then I'm like oh man I don't want to start another project right now I'm still working on mine so thought that was funny. Um so I may have an opportunity to do the Vrv stuff eventually. um uh Jason says that by going with an inverter I can even get a little Wilder and Zone my house.

the system will set itself properly. Yeah, you know we could do all kinds of stuff with it so it'll be fun. It'll be fun for sure. Um Mario says no company for me, not on the heat load.

Oh man, we'll get there bro. we'll get there. So all right, well um see what else we got going on in the chat? Nick's saying don't forget to insulate my return box definitely? Um, we're definitely gonna do that for noise and stuff and we got a couple things coming out on that so there'll be a lot you know. I'm sure there'll be a lot more videos about this.

so um, right on. Well I am gonna wrap this one up. it has been cool I Appreciate you guys! We're gonna cut it a little bit short because it's a holiday I Want to go spend some time with the family and I hope that you can enjoy the rest of your evening. Uh, look forward to some work that I have to do this week so that'll be kind of fun.

Uh, hopefully I'll get some footage out of that. Got a couple Cool Jobs coming up? Um, so yeah. I Really, really do appreciate you all. Okay, I am going to uh, queue up the outro music.

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