I am an HVAC/R journeyman technician in the Phoenix, AZ area. This area is infested with HVAC hacks, especially in the residential HVAC side of the business.


I have not only witnessed outright jackleg hackery by the unskilled techs or those techs who just don't care, but many of the local HVAC companies themselves don't care about doing anything properly as they are in the business ONLY to make a quick buck in this hot Arizona climate. They don't care about proper training for their technicians as long as they bring in $$$ from the customers.


In the past 7 years of being in this area I have collected many pictures and some videos of the problem in our area which I will start to share on youtube.

One day I could only hope that the corrupt local government would ENFORCE all building codes and require these jacklegs to actually pull a permit for these installations so the problem with safety and improper system access would improve!