Fifth Annual Symposium and I Just want to bring to you guys some of the stuff you're missing. a couple of tables and speakers that you didn't get to hear. Um, which you need to go check out online if you didn't get to hear it. but uh, tell me what you got here and what you do.

Yeah, so my name is Russ King Our our company is called Coded Energy and we're the developers of Quick Model 3D it's a Load Cal and Duck Design Software. Um, it's award-winning brand new. It's uh, written in a video game platform so wow, more like Minecraft than uh than Roft. So it's uh, my son's the programmer and um, um, we uh, we've been out about 3 years.

um and we're working with uh, a company called Cubin now. Okay, um so what it does is our software takes a 2d floor plan and imports it into a 3D world and you build the house on top of it like Minecraft and that does all the takeoffs for you. So it's it's tabulating all the areas of the floors and the walls and everything. and then you tell what kind of walls, what kind of floors, what kind of ceilings and it does the load CCH for you.

But the problem with existing homes is you don't usually have a floor plan right? And so we're working with a company called Cubasa which is a phone app and you scan your house and it creates a floor plan of your house that looks like an architecture that's awesome so that can be imported. but but even more than that is, they're going to create a file that can be opened in our software to make the house already in 3D so you don't have to build it in 3D So that's we're really, really excited about that. In fact, we've made doing load couch so easy or at least the data collection portion of it that that now we want to involve the home owner. We think a homeowner could actually do load Cs on their own house? Well, that's different.

Wow. Okay, all right, so we have a program. It's called DIY Load Cou.com and uh, it walks the homeowner through the process of scanning their house. They send us that file, they fill out an online survey about the age of the house, the address, all that good stuff.

We plug that all into the software for them, and uh, and then we give them back a load calculation with a lot of educational material and things like that. But the important thing is, they also get the file for our softare. so if they find a contractor who uses our software, that contractor can open it up and then all the work's done for them, done all the data collection, and then they can fine-tune the lows. They can do the manual D duct design and everything like that on top of it.

So Wow! So we're really excited about that. There's so many times I'm in somebody's home and they're like what size AC should actually be in this house. They're just I could be there for a maintenance and they're not having problems, but they're wondering, they're questioning that yes and something like, well, that's going to take a load count That's not what I'm here do today, but you could actually do it yourself. Yes, you can that be That's really cool.

and I'm on a lot of Facebook groups where homeowners post questions and it seems like about 80% of the time the answer is do a load count and and they like, well, who can do that can anybody here do that for me How can I do it Well, They can do it themselves. it's not that difficult. I Had my 83-year-old mom scan her house and it turned out perfect. That's awesome, so it's that easy.

It really is. Is she looking for a job? By the way, because we we're hiring? Yeah, so you know there's there's 80 million single family homes in the United States They all need a load count. Yeah, at the rate we're going, they're never going to get done. And you know there's situations where you got three or four contractors bidding on one job.

Technically, they should all be doing a load C right. But on the same house that's a That's a horrible waste of energy and a waste of time. Sure, and that's one of the main reasons they don't do it because they realize it's a waste of time. What if you showed up to a house and say Hey I want to bid your replacement and the homeowner says yeah? Cool.

Here's my here's my load C Wow and here's the file that you can open up. Be a jaw jawdropping moment for sure. How about that? So that's what we're hoping for and that's what we're pushing. So cool! Well how's the how's the conversation and involvement from everyone here been? So far it's been really good.

it's been really good. and I I knew there was going to be a little bit of push back because DIY in the HC world like just brings up a little bit of panic immediately hits well for two reasons: they're going to mess it up terribly or they're going to be smarter than me when I show up at the door. So I was very aware of that. You know I didn't want I didn't want us to become the Mr Cool of calculations.

you know? So so it's and honestly it, it's a little bit misleading to call it DIY load CS because they're not doing the load CS they're just collecting information. They're giving it back to us and that's certainly something they can do. Yeah, um, and I review a lot of load CS for for programs and rebate programs and stuff like that and some of the stuff I See, it's not a very high bar to to to surpass. Uh, the other thing I was going to ask is uh if you had like a um maybe a a practical point from the talk that you gave um um or anything for technicians to take away.

Yeah so I gave I actually gave two presentations. one one was on heat pumps. We call it the How to Avoid the Heat Pump Revolts of 2026. Okay, and so the important thing there is is two load calculations.

You know if you don't have load calculations, you're not measuring right and you know I' I've resorted to shaming contractors I've begged them I've asked them I pleaded with them I to now weing sh this is so easy Now Yes, yes. So so what I say is uh, you know if you're a professional um Carpenter The the the saying is measure twice, cut once right? Well, I'm not a professional Carpenter so I'll measure once I usually end up cutting twice. Okay, but if you're not doing load calculations on a house, you're not measuring at all. Yeah, you're guessing.

And how can you call yourself a professional? If you're not even measuring, you're just 500 s feet per ton. You know this worked for the last guy, right? Exactly exactly So I I I think I Think it's time that our industry gets with it and and does what's right. It's good. Something that you've said a lot when you're talking about.

He pumps is a lot of people really didn't like Keat Pumps when they first came out. but that's because you were doing a lot of the measurements incorrectly. a lot more prone. If all the bad, all the bad things you hear about Heat Pumps is not an equipment problem.

it's an installation problem. It's a design problem. and an installation problem. It's installers problem.

Not that's because they weren't doing low counts. They weren't They weren't measuring. Yeah, it's good. 100% Well I Appreciate you Uh, coming out not only uh, helping support what we do, but also giving back with education and teaching us and glad to have you.

It's my pleasure. This is a great great event and everything you guys do is just fantastic. Really appreciate. Thanks Awesome! Thanks for watching.

If you're willing, give this video a thumbs up and drop us a comment Don't forget to hit that Bell icon to stay updated with all of our future videos. And as a quick reminder, HVAC School isn't just a YouTube channel deeper with us at our main website: Hvacr School.com Curious for more knowledge on the go? We've got you covered! Tune in the HVAC School podcast available on all your favorite podcast apps and while you're at it, join our thriving Facebook group. Also, don't miss out on our free mobile applications available for both iPhone and Android We're all about Community Vortex Byx.