So I'm doing a site walk today to do a unit replacement quote for this customer. So what I did was - I came out here today to verify some measurements, because they're going to go ahead and supply the unit. This particular customer is going to supply a Linux unit so because this existing carrier unit right here is sitting on an adapter curve. The Lennox unit is going to require an adapter curb 2 and I don't want to stack an adapter curve on top of an adapter curve for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is because it's gon na sit so high above the parapet wall.

You know, then, you got to think about air flow and all kinds of stuff: okay, aesthetics, everything but anyways. So I needed to be able to get underneath that existing adapter curve right there and verify the original roof curb measurements. So, using some ingenuity, some four-by-fours and two-by-fours and being very careful, I was able to lift up the entire curve prop it up on four by fours and measure out the entire curve. Okay, I did so put the unit back down safely.

Nobody got hurt. Didn't take me too long. You just got to be safe and use some ingenuity, always paying attention to like the gas lines. If it was a rigid gas line, we couldn't do that.

You know just being careful. So with that being said, I was also able to go into a store file that I have for this customer not at this location, but I had another location that was a very similar prototype and I was able to cross-reference some information and find out the original Unit that used to sit here before there was an adapter curve installed. It was a 1980s carrier, seven and a half ton unit. I was able to get that model number and then take the dimensions of that unit and compare it to my measurements that I got on this just to double-check my measurements, to make sure that I wasn't crazy or anything and everything matches up.

Okay, the other things that I'm paying attention to. As I'm doing this survey is I'm paying attention to how far away view this unit is from the parapet wall, because the new unit is likely going to swap 180 degrees. So I needed to make sure that I have room to do that and I'll verify that once they send me their new proposed unit and curb adapter, but I have all the measurements from the parapet wall to the existing curb. I have all the measurements for the electrical and gas lines.

I know all my information for electrical yeah and that's pretty much it another thing you got to pay attention to is how far this unit sticks above the parapet wall. This the city is not going to like the unit sticking any higher than it is already so, but the new unit that they're gon na send in is actually gon na be shorter and all that good stuff. So we are also going to be measuring out for the crane. We have to know where the crane is going to set up.

We have to know the dead center of the unit where the weights going to be at so it's evenly distributed. We have to know how far of a reach and how high up we are from the ground level, where the crane is going to be sitting. You have to factor in a lot of things into this like, for instance, this particular restaurant. Their parking lot is is sitting on top of a parking structure that parking structure has a load limit of 20 tons.

I have to take that into consideration and speak with the crane operators to make sure that their rig isn't too heavy. So, there's a lot of factors you have to think about when you're doing these jobs, okay, you can't just wing it and call Joe schmo's crane and and not give them that information. Okay, another really cool thing that you can do if you guys don't already know. Of course, I'm gon na measure out the dead center of this unit to the parking lot where the dead center, where the crane would sit and then I'm going to measure the height of the building.

So that way, we know how far we reach it means, but another really cool thing to verify your measurements and confirm them is on Google Maps. You can actually find links of things using Google Maps and some of the tools in there, so I can actually pull this restaurant up on Google Maps find this particular unit, find the dead center of the unit and calculate where the crane would sit, and it will Confirm my measurements that I would measure today, so you always like, I said, always want to look at the big picture and try to think about everything. So that way, these jobs go smooth safe, you don't want anybody getting hurt and you want them to go. You know be efficient, so yeah, that's what we're at right.

Now, I'm just going to go back to my office and review all their. It proposed him dimensions and everything and then sign off on everything. It's very important that I do this because once they order their unit, they're gon na make me sign off on the curb drawings of the new unit and they have to match up 100 % or it's my butt, because I'm signing saying that they're accurate. So, that's why I had to lift this entire unit off of the curb okay and measure everything out.

The way that I did all right so after all that this is what we came up with. We've got a carrier package unit of seven and a half ton. This is all the information that I need to submit proposals to replace this unit and, like I said before, the customer is going to supply this unit, but they make me sign off on the curb adapters and all that good stuff. So, basically, I've got all the information existing unit.

How tall it is you know so that way when they send me their dimensions, existing roof curb. I can tell them exactly how tall the new units gon na be, how far or below the parapet wall it's gon na. Stick. You know all this information.

I've got rough dimensions on the gas lines, drain lines, roof curbs and then we come up with this. Is my layout as far as the unit from the parapet wall so because, like I said, they're, probably going to shoot me a unit that takes this existing unit and flops it 180 degrees. So I need to make sure that I have that room. So on one side of the unit, I only have 40 inches to the parapet wall and this is from the roof curb and then the same thing over here: 30 inches to the parapet wall.

So and then this is what I come up with the existing unit. These are the exact dimensions because, like I said, I was able to lift that unit up on all four corners and measure everything out to get the identical measurements. So that way we know 100 % sure when I sign off on those dimensions. This is going to be perfect.