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Hello, everybody good evening: how are you guys all doing this evening? I am doing okay. The weather is super nice over here in Southern California. I'm sorry for you guys in the Midwest and back east, where it may not be so nice, but out here we're having nice 60 65 degree days. So it is very nice we should be able.

You guys should see me. Okay inside the chat. I see it be a few people saying they can't, but I should be on there: okay, cool all right on. Let me know if y'all got everything in there should be coming through nice and good cool right on okay.

I keep making all these mistakes on this and hope that I can get it right one day, so cool. I was watching just before the someone in my youtube comments today had mentioned something that made me search out. Super Dave Osborne on on YouTube and then I've been caught in like a Super Dave Osborne loop all day long for you, young guys, you may not know who he was, but he's a comedian that used to do a lot of late-night way before my time. But I always thought his comedy was just funny because it's it's not meant to be serious, it's meant to be so stupid.

You don't have to think about it and it's just silly stuff, but yeah. I just just got caught in a loop where I couldn't stop watching his stuff that and his little sidekick Fuji just yeah. I could not stop on that. So right on cool, I'm glad you guys can see me okay, so um.

So I wanted to start out by addressing a question that came up in the chat or actually yeah. I came up in the chat earlier, so I thought it was a really important one. It's Joe gee, I know he's in here somewhere and he he asked how what he can do to stand out he's applying for an apprenticeship is the way I understood it and correct me if I'm wrong and he wanted to know what he could do to stand Out in his application process, so I'm gon na kind of address this in a broad way and talk about anybody. That's applying for a job.

Okay, as a business owner, I'm gon na go over some honest things that really make up persons stand out to me. Okay, when they're putting in an application - and you may not agree with these okay, but I'm just telling you as a business owner what honestly stands out the most I'm not necessarily saying this is how the things I base my hiring off of because some of these Things might sound a little strange okay, but it's the things that make it the easiest for me to evaluate a person and find out if they're, a good fit. Okay, obviously technical skills. But let's, let's step back from the technical skills.

And let's talk about an apprentice. Someone who wants to come into this trade, okay, one of the things that I have always pointed out. You know about people, so this may not apply to you Joji! Okay! Sorry, if I do, is that your name by the way? Tell me what your name is. It just your screen thing shows up as Joji, so the first thing is is, let's see an apprentice comes knocking on my door.

He sends me most of the time I get an email from one of them. Okay and they send me an email and they say: hey, I'm looking for a job, a local teacher turned them on to me or something like that. Okay, the first thing that really really helps is, if, as a business owner, it helps me to remember people and for someone to stand out if they somehow have a photo attached inside of the email, okay and or with the resume. I know that sounds silly, but it helps me to remember that person because you got to remember I'm getting so many resumes a day not a day.
I shouldn't I'm not that popular, but I mean a month. Let's just say that I probably get 10 to 15 resumes a month, okay and I'm not necessarily always hiring, but if I see a resume that stands out, I'm gon na pass it on to my friends or whatnot. Okay, but something that really makes you stand out is if there's a photo attached to that resume. Okay, I'm gon na tell you something that nobody has ever done and would really make that person stand out is a link to your social media.

Okay, if you had a link to your social media, then I could put a name to the face: okay and maybe not necessarily for me, but there's a lot of companies out there. We don't do this, but I've heard of a lot of corporate companies that make you actually unlock your social media, so they can look at it. Obviously, that's not something that we are gon na do as a service company, but I'm just telling you guys honestly. What's gon na make you stand the most okay, you know businesses, you know they want to.

They want to hire people that are trustworthy, that are honest and they don't want to have to guess whether or not you're gon na be a good person. Okay again, I know this sounds super controversial guys, but I was just reading an article about this and it and it really makes sense: okay, a visual aid, a picture of you and then a link to your social media. That's gon na make you stand out above everybody because everybody else, not everybody else, but a lot of people are afraid. What's in their social media, they want to hide that because maybe they're not they don't have the best character or what not okay.

You know this is. This is definitely something I I don't know the legalities of it. I can't require this as an as a company, because this you know there could be like discrimination, things and stuff like that. But if you voluntarily provide a link to your social media to a potential employer, it's definitely gon na make you stand out.

Okay, that's that's a major wan na okay. Obviously, once you submit a resume and you go in for like the first interview - walk in the door with a DMV printout - okay, even if they don't ask it, for you - walk in the door with a DMV, printout, okay and flat-out. Tell them write up in the beginning. You can drug test me at any given time.

Okay - and you better be honest about that, because they might call you on it. I'm gon na be honest with you. Most companies probably won't drug test you, but the fact that it, you know it's. It's understood that you need to be able to pass.
A drug test is a big thing: okay, so walking in the door having a visual aid. With your with your resume a picture and maybe a link to your social media, a Facebook page or whatnot, okay go ahead and walk in the door with a clean, DMV. Printout, okay, be totally open to a drug test. Okay, because that's a big thing, that's gon na make you stand apart.

Just being honest: okay, I've had people like I heard a guy that had a DUI okay. Now it was still on his record. He was a great great mechanic and it um I'll get to the question here in just a second okay Zach, you asked: are you advertising for employees or is it YouTube viewers? I advertise like I just hired someone as a part-time employee, but I didn't necessarily advertise on YouTube. I have before I've just said it.

You know I'm looking for technicians, I really didn't hire from that bunch, but I did get a lot of resumes but still to this day, even without saying I'm hiring, I still get people emailing me asking me if I am hiring okay, so I will, you know, Entertain resumes if someone wants to send them to me, but the most recent candidate that I hired it's from the local community college and the the teacher. The instructor who's. Also in my RSS chapter recommended that this person come over to me and we went ahead and hired him. He was a good hire.

Okay, so you know, but I'm back to the story. I was saying so I I once hired a guy that had a DUI. Okay, it was, it was almost, I think he had like four months of it left on his record before it disappeared, okay and that technician this was a long time ago, but that technician was such a mechanic. He had no refrigeration experience, but he came from the construction side and he was a very mechanically inclined person and he had some really good references, people that we personally knew and we as a company, felt that it was worth it for us to go ahead and Hire that guy, even though he had a DUI, because he was, he was just something we couldn't pass up - okay and we as a company had to pay.

You know our insurance policies were a little bit more to hire him, and you know different stuff like that. But it was because he was honest: okay, be honest upfront, that's a huge thing. Okay, being honest, be humble okay, I always say that all the time just be humble, be totally willing to admit the fact that you don't know everything and that you're willing to learn. Okay, I try to say that to everybody every day.

I do not know everything. Okay, I I know a little bit about a few things and I try to share that with you guys, but just be a humble person all around in general. Being humble is really gon na help you guys, okay, so those are some interesting things. I don't know how much that's gon na apply to you.
You know, but really I mean that those are some serious things. Okay, give them. A visual aid provide a link to your social media, be open. Let them lurk your social media, page okay, let them look around and see okay yeah.

This is person that I want to hire. I'm gon na be honest with you. You know we're in the construction trades. We realize that you're not gon na be an angel okay.

We realize that we're mechanics. We realize that you do stupid stuff. I don't care if someone smokes pot hell it's legal here in California, okay, but they can't smoke on the job, and you know I mean it does it does skirt the line of being able to pass a drug test, but I mean it's just one of those Things what you do on your personal time, it doesn't really affect me now always be cautious about your your company's policies. I'm not saying it's the same for everybody, but you know I mean if you drink when you go home at night time as long as you're, not bringing it to work and it's not leading to problems, I don't care, I mean I can't control that anyways, but You know so we know in our trade that we're not gon na hire Saints.

I mean you know, I mean this is just nobody's perfect, so those are a couple things that I think can make you stand out. Hopefully that helps you a little bit, but I definitely think being honest with the the social media and a picture of yourself that that's gon na set you apart from everybody else, because just think most people are afraid. To be honest, most people want to hide stuff and then their employers find it and then it creates a problem. So just be upfront, you know this is what I got look at the I mean, let's be honest, dude when you, when you go in when you go to a trade school or whatever, look at all the other people in the trade school, okay, they're.

Just the same as you, they all make mistakes they all do. I mean you know so. Everybody's got an equal chance so long as you're willing to learn and you're mechanically inclined. You'll do well in this trade, okay, so another thing and I'll get to I'll.

Get to a couple questions in here, which is worse, a dope head or an alcoholic. I had them both and that's not neither one of them is good. The alcoholics are see, I mean they're, both scary, the alcoholics are scary, especially the functioning ones, especially. I've never found someone drinking, but we found people with drugs and you know we've helped them.

We probably went a little too far, helping them putting in through rehab. You know, there's there's a lot of them as a business. You have to be cautious about that kind of stuff, because, especially here in California, with lawsuits and different things, you know and alcohol abuse and drug abuse some people consider it to be a disease and not not saying it's not not saying it is okay, I'm just Saying some P, you know medical people do consider it to be a disease. So therefore, do you skirt the line if you fire someone for being an alcoholic? That's a discrimination thing right there, so you have to be cautious about that kind of stuff.
So you know we had a person many many years ago that we suspected had a drug problem. We confronted him, he said no, he was pretty good for a while and then we, you know we kind of really had a strong feeling that he had a drug issue. We put him through rehab and he came out of. Rehab was good for a little while and then he disappeared with our van for like two weeks.

We couldn't find him so and then, when he came out of his bender after the two weeks, we didn't have to let him go. He actually called us and said I made a mistake: I'm gon na bring the van to you. I really can't work with you guys anymore and he just dropped off his van so cross our fingers. That was the best-case scenario.

Nobody got hurt, but that's a scary thing. Okay, so, and you wonder why you know companies these days have to have GPS, enabled vehicles and different things like that, because I've got a ten thousand dollar vehicle. Well, I've got a actually probably like a fifty thousand dollar vehicle rolling down the street. You know the van probably cost twenty thirty grand and it's probably got ten fifteen grand worth of materials in it.

So you know I've got a giant investment rolling down the street and when I can't hear from that person even for an hour, you know I mean it's a problem. So that's why people have to have GPS and different things on their vans, because we have to be able to find them. You know so going off on a tangent there. We could go off on ours because I know a lot of people don't agree with GPS and whatnot, but it's the future just get used to it.

Okay, so we'll get to some questions in the chat here in a minute, do you want to address? Let me check to see if I missed anything out here: okay, cool! I already got that one! Okay, do you want to address another question that I had in the YouTube comments today? Someone asked me why they see more defrost clocks on a walk-in freezer versus defrost clocks on a walk-in cooler. Now, there's a lot of problems with that question, but this particular person wanted to know why he saw more defrost clocks on a walk-in freezer okay. So let's go back to basics. Okay, in order for us to change a box temperature, we have to have heat transfer right in order to have heat transferring from one medium to another.

So from the box air, the ambient air, the air inside the box to the refrigeration lines, we have to have a temperature difference in those two right. So if we have a 30 degree box that refrigeration line has to be at least a degree below that. Okay for it to get some kind of heat transfer, okay, now for it to get an effective amount of heat transfer, we have to have that temperature or that TD. If we want to call it okay to be a lot lower.
So on a walk-in cooler - and let's summarize, the TD is the evaporator temperature, so the temperature inside the evaporator, coil, okay, compared to the space temperature or the air temperature or whatever medium, is being transferred or is transferring the heat from. I guess you guys should understand that, hopefully my wording there makes sense so on a walk-in cooler. Typically, okay - and this is a rule of thumb - it could change a little bit, but typically your evaporator TD is gon na be 10 to 15 degrees. Therefore, the evaporator is gon na be 10 to 15 degrees below the box.

Temperature, okay makes sense so typical walk-in cooler, depending on what you're storing in it might be, let's just say like a beer walk-in, you know or a beverage cooler, they might run it at 40 degrees, okay, if they run a beer cooler at 40 degrees. All right. Our evaporator temperature is at least gon na be 10 degrees below that for it to have effective heat transfer. Okay, so that means our evaporator is gon na be 30 degrees.

Well, 30 degrees is below freezing right, okay, so now, let's think about when we have a walk-in cooler that we maintain at like 35 degrees. Okay, that evaporator temperature internally is gon na, be about 25 degrees, okay and that's just assuming a 10 degree TD. So that's why we have to have defrost on a walk-in cooler. Alright.

Now there is some older systems out there that it did not have defrost built in and there's different methods that we could do that. Okay, I'm not gon na get too crazy into that right. Now, but for the most part nowadays we maintain a much lower temperature okay before they change the health standards to 41 degrees. You know you had to have your your product temperature.

I think it was 45 degrees. If I remember right, it was before my time, but I think I remember some of the stuff you had to have a 45. So therefore you could run you know. If you were maintaining 45 degrees in your walk-in, then your evaporator would be 35 degrees.

Then it would be not you know it wouldn't be under freezing okay, so on a walk-in freezer, if they're gon na be storing ice cream in there you know just general product and ice cream for the most part, it's gon na maintain about negative 10 degrees. If it's gon na maintain about negative 10 degrees, okay, then your evaporator is probably gon na, be 10 degrees colder than that, so we might be at negative 20 degrees. Okay, so that's why we have to have defrost now on a walk-in freezer. We're gon na have a much more elaborate defrost, whether it be electronic or hot gas.

You're gon na have all kinds of sensors inside there. So it's a much more elaborate defrost system on a walk-in freezer on a walk-in cooler. Most of the time we can get away with an air defrost. So that's where they're gon na run the fans the whole time and they're just gon na shut off the compressor.
That would be like an off cycle. Defrost. Okay, that's gon na be a typical one. On a walk-in system, okay, I'm gon na look over here at the chat, so I don't get too far behind and see if I miss anything major, so I'm gon na just kind of screw up in here: okay, cool Ryan, tanner.

You asked pricing advice for new business owner flat rate compared to time and materials Ryan, I'm in the commercial side. So time of materials is the only thing that works for us. Okay, flat rate is not an easy sell on the commercial side, because most and especially in restaurants, they won't go for flat rate at all, so I can definitely understand the need for flat rate when you're dealing with a residential thing, because most it's it's been proven That most people want to know how much something is going to cost before they get into it. They like to be able to you know not have that variable of time and material kind of a rate.

Now I personally would have a hard time with that. As a business owner, because I've always been a time of materials person and if you're an honest company time of materials is better, in my opinion, even on a residential side, in my opinion, but you know again, you know you'd want to talk to someone that deals With some more residential stuff, highly highly suggest, you guys check out tersh bliss'it's podcast, the HVAC HVAC business mastery. Did I get that wrong? It's on the blue-collar roots network with Brian or service business. Mastery there we go am sorry tersh, but yeah service business.

Mastery Church covers a lot of these topics on his podcast. You know, and I think it's a great great thing for you guys if you want to know more about business ownership and stuff okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and keep on going down here. Dj sub air, you said clean and dressed yeah, but for HVAC don't go in in a suit and tie. I mean unless you're going to work for some big corporate company just going in in some blue jeans and a nice t-shirt.

You know: that's that's the perfect attire for me because you know or like work, clothes come in and work boots, blue jeans and a t-shirt, and I'm gon na be honest with you with me. So the way that I do my interview process is, I don't know how other people do it, but this is how we do it, so you come in for an initial interview and depending on the time and stuff, sometimes I might ask that person like I had One guy, oh so so let me step back so you come in for an initial interview and then, if everything goes good in the interview, then we schedule a time for the person to do a ride-along. Okay, then we do a ride-along with the person they ride. With me, for a day, they work with me for a day a day is not enough to find out everything about the person, but it gives me the gist of they know how to operate.

They can climb a ladder without freaking out. They can excuse me, you know, do that kind of stuff, so there has been times when, on the first interview at all with one guy, it worked out perfect where he came and did the ride-along. That same day I mean the interview went great. He was the perfect candidate, we shook his hands and said: hey how'd, you like to do the ride-along and you know we asked him when it was convenient.
He said now and I said: let's do it and so we went and did a ride-along. We went and ran some calls, so that's why I say for me, but again, I'm not saying for everybody, but I mean for my business come in in some work boots and blue jeans and a t-shirt and you know and that cuz that's you know, that's that's How we roll we don't need to be all fancy I don't need. You tie doesn't mean too much to me, so I don't even own a suit and tie myself, so I can't expect other people to come in in a suit and tie so. Okay, keep on going down here.

Yeah hiring someone with marital problems is not good, but I'm not going to discriminate on that. Okay, hiring. Someone with marital problems leads to a lot of issues, but again there's nothing. We can do to prevent that kind of stuff so keep on going down here.

I'm just reading down kept trying to catch up on this. So yeah. That's that's the interesting thing. Sorry, I'm just getting your comment here.

Zack where you said you you would fire them. You hate for that to be against their rights. That's the thing is, is I just have to be cautious? I I you just never know what these lawsuits these days so got to be cautious about that stuff. So um, okay, gon na keep on going down here, yeah, okay, just reading down through here, seeing what you guys are saying: okay, I'm back down in the bottom of the chat again here so yeah there's no need to have a suit.

Huh yeah kick a kiss-ass and match your clothing to the owners. Yeah, that's funny superior! So, okay, guys if I missed anything major NASA nastiness that you said you posted a question about cold plate evaporators and I'm wondering if they use static coils, if not, okay. So on the video that I posted today I'll go and address this question right now, so the video that I posted today was a chi rach region that had a cold rail on the top. Okay, now there's two different types of cold rails: there's a static, cold, rail, okay and a static cold air all has no air moving across as a heat transfer source; okay, they simply just put the pans up against the cold rail and the heat transfers.

Okay, there's no air movement across there that the region that I showed actually does have a cooling fan and it has a typical evaporator, but on top of that so basically below the cold rail down in the bottom right in the center. There's a for a six-inch fan and underneath that is refrigeration lines, serpentine back and forth in a cavity, that's about two and a half inches tall. That cavity has a drain in it. Okay, then those refrigeration lines after they serpentine through that cavity, come up and go around the rail and then they go through the center of the rails.
So that way, when they stack the pans, there's cold around the edges of each pan and then there's air moving up underneath it okay. So that's the the older Chi rack design was they used a fan motor inside that? Okay? So so that is not a static! Cold rail. Now, if you go work on like a delfield refrigerator, they run static, cold rails up on the top, where there's no fan circulating the air. Okay and the refrigeration lines are basically held up against the stainless steel metal.

You know around the pan and then the pans just sit down and they touch the edges and then the heat transfers via that way. Okay, so it just depends on the region you're working on some of the older R and L ones. You had static cold rails. The static cold rail is a very popular one.

So did I answer your question there? I can't remember if that was all your question. I'm gon na go back up into here. Let's go up into here, Austin, you said instead of cooling and evaporative coolers a heat exchanger, okay. So that's on the newer hyrax.

The video that I showed today was an older Chi rack, but you are correct: Austin, the Newark, Iraq's the blue units. Yes, those do have a glycol fluid inside the heat exchange or inside the the reach-in and then the heat exchanger. Basically, you know cools the glycol, so that's on the newer ones, but the one that I showed was an old old-school. Chi rack so go down here and see what I missed in here.

Okay, is a veto. Bag required yeah Ryan. You got to have a veto, tech pack and you got to have the veto and B. I need to see a line up of tool bags before I hire you.

Okay, no all right! Okay, keep going on here! It's let's put this right here there we go all right. I just made you a moderator Zach, if you want to help out with that. I don't know. If that's what you were asking me, I just saw your comment there.

So, okay, so the indie ice man, you said well, a hoshizaki headmaster, maintain the head pressure during harvest. Yes, yeah! That's the purpose of having a headmaster on a remote ice machine. Okay is because of hot gas defrost. We need to have that high discharge temperature.

When we're using it during defrost, so yes, the headmaster will maintain the head pressure, but I will say that you won't necessarily see sorry, I'm getting a. You won't necessarily see the head pressure stay exactly at the head: the headmaster settings, okay, essentially the number stamped on the side of the headmaster. I don't know what it is on a Hoshi. I can't remember, but let's just say it's an old-school headmaster of 180 psi.

Just because you see a headmaster on there that stamped 180 psi does not mean mean that the head pressure will at least be a hundred and eighty psi. All that that means is is that the headmaster will start to bypass at 180 psi. Okay, if, if forbid, you had problems, you know or if it was like so extremely cold, your head pressure might drop below the 180 psi, so you can't necessarily diagnose a headmaster just because the head pressure went under the stamped number on the side of the headmaster. Okay, I hope that that's what you are asking there and hopefully I get to that one there right, let's go here.
Am I missing something here? If I missing your guys's questions? Okay, let's go in here; okay, thoughts on high-end work boots; Dino! It's totally up to you, dude, you know it's. I I buy higher in work boots. I run with Timberland pros. I've always had that.

I consider those higher end they're, not Red Wing expensive, but I mean, I guess, they're 200 bucks still so I run with Timberland Timberland pros, and then I have Red Wings for my personal boots, like the slip-on cowboy boot style work boot things that I use for Personals, but the Timberland Pro lace-up ones are the ones that I use for for my work boots and I believe, in buying a higher end like a Timberland, because the cheep Walmart ones they don't last worth of crud and the slip resistance on them is junk. Also, remember, don't let me tell you that every timber I mean anything that says slip resistant on it just means it's resistant. It doesn't mean that it's gon na be slip. Proof okay, when you're, especially for the new guys that are just getting involved.

If you're gon na be doing kitchen work, you have to learn how to walk flat-footed and you have to work out, learn how to walk cautiously. You can't take a corner on your toes because you're gon na fall on your ass okay. So when you're walking through a restaurant, you have to learn how to keep your feet flat and you have to work to earn how to balance yourself. Another thing too: if, if you're working in a restaurant in a greasy kitchen - and you start to slip just let it happen, you're gon na hurt yourself more by trying to prevent the fall.

You're gon na end up throwing your back out. That's just something that I've learned: okay, god forbid, I'm gon na fall, but if I am gon na fall, just let it happen, I mean the only thing I would freak out about not falling is, if you're falling into the fryers or something I'm gon na. Do everything I can to stay away from that, but if I'm just on the floor, just let it happen, do it it's much better to fall in your ass and just plop down then to your body tense up and cringe and contort in weird ways: you're gon Na throw your back out and you're gon na feel like crap for three days: okay, so, okay! So jr., you said what would you think about coming to an interview with your tools: overkill, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Overkill's yeah? I don't need to see your tools coming into an interview. Okay, this is me personally.
Okay, I run a small business. That's just how I roll I. I don't care. If you have your tools in the interview all right, I don't need to see them.

That's not something I mean you can mention that you already have your hand, tools or whatnot, but you know another thing: junior to say to Bryan coab's, you said: will I do a review on the field piece job link, probes, yeah? I will I'll work on that. I have them, I've had them forever, so there's they're used in a lot of my videos. So if you just go back and review a lot of my, I used the field piece JobLink pros with a measure quick and all that fancy stuff. So I use them all the time, but junior so coming to an interview.

You know with my tools now I know needed dude just come in and be honest present yourself. Do the things for those of you guys that are just coming in here that didn't see the beginning part of this? I covered a question that Joji had asked how to stand out in an interview: okay, an interview in general. Now these aren't necessarily things that you have to do, and these aren't necessarily things that I will not hire or hire someone over, but I'm just being honest. These are some things.

The biggest thing when you send in a resume send a photo of yourself. Okay, that's gon na make you stand out amongst everybody else, because then I have a picture and I can put a name to the face. Okay, the next thing send me a link to your social media. Send me a link to your social media, shows me that you're, honest and not, and not, hiding anything okay and be honest.

Okay, you don't have to be a squeaky-clean, perfect person. Okay, that's not what I'm looking for I'm just looking or if I was to go over that kind of stuff. I would just be looking to make sure that you are who you say. You are okay, and you know walking with the DMV printout, showing that you have a clean driving record, be honest, be upfront about any legal problems.

I mentioned before that I've hired someone with a DUI before they turned out to be one of my best employees. Ever okay, he doesn't work for me anymore, but no hard feelings. He went to work somewhere else, but he worked for us for a very long time and he was a great employee and I hired him at my expense, meaning that he had a DUI still on his record. He had a couple months before it cleared and I had to pay, or we had to pay higher insurance rates for him to be able to hire him.

Okay, so just be honest and upfront, those are the things that I think are gon na help you guys as new people. Okay, so and then be humble and be honest. Those are the other things. Okay, keep going down in here seeing what I'm missing.

You want to see the new s man's Matt yeah, I I've got. I've got him in videos, so yeah, but I'll do something with those one of these days. There you go Ryan, show up sober 15 minutes early and ready to share knowledge. Ryan brings up a writ Ryan.
Leary brings up a really good point. So me I'm an early person. Okay, I start to panic if I'm late for anything so let's say tomorrow morning. Actually this is truth.

Tomorrow morning I've got a delfield service, training class, where I have to go, because I do a bunch of warranty, work and stuff. So I've got to go to a delfield service training class in the city of Torrance at 8 a.m. I live in Riverside that's two hours in traffic. Ok, I'm to be honest with you.

This is gon na sound stupid. I'm gon na give myself three hours to get there. I am I'm a freaky early person. Okay, I would rather go sit in a crappy coffee shop and close my eyes for a half an hour then be late somewhere.

So when employees show up early places with me, that's a big one up big time so showing up early. That's a that's a great thing! Ok, because I start to worry when employees are just. You know just skiing right in at the last minute when we have a scheduled crane, lift or or I've scheduled to have a manager. These are just things that I have to go through.

Okay, I have to schedule for restaurants to be there on time. So you know - or I have to schedule restaurant to be there early, my guy better show up early, because that manager got up an extra half an hour early to show up on time. You know what I'm saying. So it's just that kind of stuff all right! Yeah invading social media is an invasion of privacy.

I don't use it to hire it's it's illegal, to use social media to hire I'm just saying as far I've never had. I've never asked that of someone. I'm just saying I read an interesting article where a lot of big big fancy like tech companies and stuff are requiring access to social media and whether or not we think it's good or bad. That's not what I'm saying I'm just saying that if you're gon na stand out from everybody else send a link to your social media, that's how you can stand out now.

I could not require that in the state of California heck. No, I would be done for if I required someone to give me their social media, but if someone voluntarily sent it to me, that's a one up over the next guy. You know for sure. So definitely anything you can do to do something that you can do that nobody else is doing to make yourself stand out, go for it so send that photo of yourself.

You know if you sent a social media link, if you, if you know, if your Rev references, you know, I don't know, there's a lot of good different stuff in there. So but yeah walking in with your DMV handouts a big one showing up early. That's those are some big ones, so yeah send a picture of Zach. Definitely so, okay keep going down in here.

Seeing what I miss in here, yeah SoCal traffic, is the worst hey Andrew, how you doing, but okay yeah we had to pay a bunch more Sean, but granted that tech, the the DUI, was gon na clear, like in less than a year. So he was on the tail end of it. Doesn't it take like a bunch of years for a DUI to clear or something so I mean he was on the tail end of it. I think we only had to.
I think he only had like eight months until his DUI cleared or something like that so yeah and yeah yeah all right, so no I've never gotten sick from my job. I've been scared of getting sick from my job, though, used to work for a hospital. A big giant fancy hospital chain and the second time they sent me out to do a preventative maintenance on an exhaust fan. I got some more story from these people and the first time they sent me out.

I really didn't think too much about it. They said. Go out to this location that was like 50 miles away from the hospital. It was like a satellite location and they said we need you to pee in this exhaust fan.

So I said: okay, I went out there and I really didn't think too much and they told me it was for the oncology department and I was like oh okay, cool yeah, no problem, and I really wasn't thinking when they said oncology. So then I went out and did the p.m. change the bill. I noticed too that the belts like they told me they'd have to change belts on this exhaust fan every month, and I was like that's kind of strange, so I was like I in my head.

As I was driving out there, I was thinking I wasn't thinking about what I was working on. Okay, but I was thinking I'm gon na fix this problem. It probably needs a new pulley or something like that. So I get out there and sure enough.

You know the belts, all cracked in weird places and it just looked like it was completely worn down, and so I adjusted some pulleys and I was like yeah. I fixed it well, the next month they called me out to go, do it again and the belt was all cracked up again and I'm like what the heck. I never understood what was going on with that. You know, then.

I put two and two together that I was working on the chemotherapy hood and then it was kind of like oh, that seems, safe and and granted. I talked to the person downstairs and they're, like oh yeah, goes through these HEPA filters, there's nothing bad that comes out of the exhaust fan baloney because they have to change that belt every month, something going on there, there's something coming out that exhaust fan. I don't care how many filters you ran it through, so I've never gotten sick per se, but I've worked in some weird things that made me get the heebie-jeebies. When I worked at a County Health Clinic on the the the refrigerator that they kept, the swine flu vaccinations in that one freaked me out and the refrigerator wasn't working and it was just like all warm and stinky in there.

I was like what am i working on. That's scared, the crap out of me just thinking like I was gon na catch, some weird disease, or something like that. You know working in the morgue coolers, I mean I'm not worried about the dead people, but just thinking like what they died of and is it airborne you know and and when I went to go work on the morgue cooler, it's all stinky and warm in there And it's like what am i breathing in? You know that stuff kind of freaks me out or you go to clean the evaporator on the morgue cooler and there's this like green ooze II stuff in the drain, pan you're like what is that you know that stuff. Just yeah never gotten sick, but it just gives me heebie-jeebies thinking about that stuff.
So you have formaldehyde, I don't think they'd been embalmed yet Jeff, but yeah. Definitely some weird stuff dude. So maybe they had well yeah. I guess I guess no.

They probably were embalmed right, wait do they know, I don't think the hospital does the embalming. I think that the the funeral home does the embalming right so from the hospital. I think they have all their bodily fluids still yeah. I think so yeah I don't know.

Dude, I'm not super smart with that stuff yeah. I don't know what it was Andrew that was causing the belts to crack that much dude. It just freaked me out thinking that I was working on the chemotherapy hood, you know. So I don't know it's probably all in my head and it was probably nothing it was out in a hot dry condition out in the desert.

So maybe that's just what was cracking. The belts was just the high heat in the dry air. So okay keep going down in here. Alright funeral home, you know my company or one of our other texts used to go work at a funeral home.

I never went to the funeral home. I was always kind of interested, but from what the tech described it to me as it was like a dirty funeral home and, like everything was like shady in there, and electrical with, like he's, sent me pictures, sometimes and like all, the electrical was like really janky And just you know like, like a someone was doing it as a side job the the when I worked at the morgue at the hospital real chill and really easy. Actually working in the morgue was kind of cool. There was this one time I had to so.

My policy was, there couldn't be anybody's than the cooler when I worked on it. Okay, we're talking a four-passenger morgue cooler, so it's got four or it's got eight doors on it, two on each side and they could pull the cart. So you know, like you, see in the movies out of it, okay, but you can pull not both sides and it would have just like a really long, evaporator coil up above the bodies. So, there's no way for me to safely work on the cooler with bodies in there, because I'd be standing on top of the bodies to try to get to the evaporator that don't make sense right.

So there's this one time I called they called me. They said my morgue coolers down it's like 4:00 in the morning, and I said: okay, is it loaded and he goes yeah. It's got four passengers in it. Well, it's only for passenger cooler, so that means it's loaded full and I go dude.
I can't work on that thing with bodies in it and the hospital maintenance guy asked me. Well, what do you want me to do with the bodies, and I go? I don't care, they just can't be in the cooler when I get there, not my problem where they go. So you know, okay, he was all irritated I'll figure, it out, you know, and so then I go over there yeah they had all the bodies out. They weren't in the in the room or anything.

I have no idea where they put him. I always laughed about that one. I could just imagine the poor little kitchen, ladies in the walk-in cooler, with freaking four bodies in there or something I have no idea where they put these bodies, but I worked on it and you know problem solved. There was another time I have some cool stories about the morgue coolers, but there was another time that uh I got out there.

They asked me to work on it and it was full of bodies, and so they and it was it, wasn't like someone - could just pull the bodies out. They have like a chain of command and procedures, they have to follow in the hospital, so they would have to send down orderlies and the orderlies would have to come down with security and then they'd have to check toe tags, make sure that the bodies were being Moved properly all that fancy stuff, so this is one time the orderly came down and there always had to be two or three orderlies. Well, there was only one orderly and he's like dude they're, the ones on break. It's not gon na be here for a half an hour and I didn't have time to wait so I was like well can I help and he goes yeah, so we got to use this cool little like crane got to lift like hook up the body, lift It out in the bag or whatever something's, not that big of a deal, but it sits on a tray.

You know, lift out the thing set it on the gurney and then I got to help him move it around. That was pretty cool. Being able to do that, the worst thing, though the worst memory I have working on the morgue cooler was when we opened it up, and you know just out of curiosity. I'd never opened up because that's completely wrong and you can't do that.

Okay, you'll get your set your ass fired for that one, but when I went in there and there's a bag with a name on it and the bag was no bigger than two feet that one hit me hard like, and I mean the bag was only two Feet long, so that meant there was a baby in it and that one just like damn that you know as many times as I worked on those coolers. It didn't bother me because it was usually two people you know, but when you saw a little baby in a bag that one just yeah messed with me that one sucked I never really felt anything bad, except for when I saw that one and that one was Just kind of iffy there's another one too I'm going off on a tangent on the more cooler. I had a Prentice that was new higher and it was probably one of the first like weeks that he worked with me and we got an emergency service call. It 4:00 in the morning about morgue cooler.
Actually, no previous day, we had a call at the morgue went out there. They had two bad evaporator fan motors and it only had four total and the other two were just as old. So because this customer is very proactive, they were like change all four motors, okay cool. So we went in and picked up the motors.

We changed him flash-forward to 4:00 a.m. that night. Ok, the next morning I should say I got an emergency service call. There's a burning smell in the morgue and we need you out here now.

We had just worked on at the previous day, so I'm driving there. I don't know what happened and as I'm driving there. I called the apprentice that was working with me, picked him up and we drove out there and as I'm driving there, I'm thinking you know what I already knew. What was wrong.

I let the apprentice change the motors. It was not his fault, it was my fault, but I handed him the wrong voltage motors. I handed him a hundred and fifteen volt motors when it was a 208 volt system. It was my bad.

He knew nothing better than that. He changed the motors. He did his job. The burning smell was all for motors were burnt up so at 4:00.

In the morning I had to open up the supply house to find the right motors. We put him in there that morgue cooler smelt no joke for like a year and a half straight like an electrical burn inside of it. I'm surprised they didn't get mad at me. That was my bad because we put for the wrong motors and then I didn't check them so all right enough talking about the morgue stuff, let's go into here, you don't think you could even work with in an empty morgue.

Oh you mean by yourself. You don't think you could work in there. I know I had no problem working in the morgue. I wanted to get off this topic, but I had no problem working in the morgue by myself, but I would always make it known that I was in there.

So if I heard someone coming I'd like make noises to, let them know so they didn't turn the corner and their pants thinking that there was something in there whatever. So I would always make noises to let the person know just to be nice. Part of my French there, so, okay yeah, I know there's too many questions. I can't I can't expect his ACK.

He didn't ask to be a moderator. I just made him a moderator I'll get to him. Okay, let's go back up and answer some real questions. Okay, so I see superior said.

That is a good question. Sean. What question did Sean ask? Okay? Oh oh you talking about body parts. What is the btu load of a dead body? That is a really good question Sean.

I would imagine you would consider it if you, let's see this is gon na be kind of morbid, but let's say you're gon na you're gon na do a load calc on a walk-in like a full walk-in cooler that stores bodies, okay, you're, basically gon na. Do the load calc as if it was beef as if it was like steaks? Okay, I know I know you guys are probably rolling in your chairs right now, but you know, obviously it's gon na be a massive amount of meat. Okay, sorry, I'm making myself laugh right now, but if I was gon na say I was gon na. Do a load calculi probably do it as like beefs or steaks or what sorry I'm making myself laugh but yeah.
So, oh man, all right! Let me go back up in here: yeah, it is the living you have to fear, forget the walk and put the body in the ice machine, bins, yeah, that's funny, okay, but a maintenance mechanic. I work with that. Hoarders knowledge and don't like just you, okay right on, but thanks jr.. I really appreciate it.

Man, okay, get back up into here. I I don't mean to blast you guys with this nightbot notification about the patreon supporters. I just do want to address this. I do have some patreon supporters.

None of you guys need to do that. It's these people chose to do it on their own. I really don't even push the patreon stuff, but some people chose to do it on their own and I do want to acknowledge and say thank you guys very much okay, but I do not do this for the money. I've always started out doing this.

For my employees - and it just turned into what it's doing okay, but I do really appreciate anybody that has contributed or can whatever it's all good. Okay, something that I want to go to real, quick I'll, get to some more questions. But I want to go ahead. I'm not gon na do this every stream, but I do want to get rid of a bunch of stuff, a bunch of giveaway stuff that I have in the back.

Okay guys, so I'm just gon na do a bunch of giveaways right now. Don't don't expect this! Every time, because after I give away this stuff, this is the end of my stock, but I just want to go ahead and give this away. It's just hats and different things. So the first name that I draw I'm just gon na tell you what what it's for? Okay, you might have a few options here and what I'm gon na have you do is, if you guys, if you win, I'm just gon na, do a nightbot random draw right now, if you win, send me an email and we'll talk about the prizes? Okay, but I will just let you guys know: I've got a set of the field piece clamps, not not the wireless ones, don't get that excited okay.

I just happen to have a set of these and I have no use for him. So I was gon na give them away they're still in the box brand new. These are the ones the wired k-type, thermocouple, clamps, okay, I've got a set of those. I've got a bunch of spoilin hats.

Couple spoilin t-shirts, some Manitowoc ice machine, hats, a Manitowoc, wind, breaker, so I'll I'll deal with the people that win and we'll take that okay. So I'm just gon na pop the names up right now let nightbot choose a random person. So, let's just go right now: bill Burnett you're, one of the winners just go ahead and email me at HVAC our videos at gmail.com. You got 24 hours to email me from this point.
Okay and we'll talk about the prize inside the thing. Okay, so I'm just going to pick off six people right now and then we'll discuss the prize in the thing you guys can choose in different things: okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and roll another one D hard. Oh one, you're number two! So you got to send me an email, okay, guys, yeah your to make you guys eligible. You have to be chatting within the last five minutes and it just randomly picks you guys, okay, so I'm not again gon na continue to do these every single time when I have swag to giveaway I'll do so.

Okay! So, let's do another one here: Israel Miller, you're a winner. So that's three Joaquin Perez! That's for Brian Milburn, five Jeep Jones, eighty five, six I'll do two more Shawn Mac and speed or Brad. Ninety five, you guys need to send me emails. I'm not gon na reach out to you guys.

Okay, so you guys got 24 hours. If you aren't in the chat any more than if I don't get contact by 24 hours, then it is what it is. Okay, so you guys send me an email and then we'll converse about what we're gon na give away and stuff I'm gon na make it easy that way. Okay, so just send me emails and I'll communicate with you guys all right.

Let me get back into this. Actually, I want to show something else too: okay, so I'm gon na try something right. Now, let's see if this works. Okay, I want you guys to tell me in the chat what we have going on here.

So what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na. Do a screen capture right now, I'm going to transition to the screen capture, and I want you guys to see something. Okay, so you guys should be able - and this is another question that I'm answering right now: okay, so this is YouTube! Okay, guys! This is my YouTube page and I'm gon na click on it right now. Can you guys see the screen share right now? Let me know if you guys can see the screen share.

Let me know, let me know you know before I go any further.

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