Hacked condensate drain - Installed by crack smokers!

Photo slide show and video clips:

Clearly many HVAC installers haven't a clue how to pipe a condensate drain. The HVAC companies also don't care who they hire to do installs. Just taking a look at these condensate drains it is obvious that the installers were mimicking their crack pipes!

This stuff was done in the Sun City area.

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[HVACRat]

Good stuff Brutha, keep 'em comin!

Re: P-Traps to TexasHomeInspector; The purpose of a P-Trap is to prevent air infiltration/exfiltration into or out of the airhandler (furnace or fancoil). The P-Trap makes an airtight seal with water, thereby keeping the air in (blow through coil) or out (draw through coil). Prime the trap with mineral oil; it will not wash out and will keep the trap wet through the Winter months. All OEMs require a P-Trap whether they are draw through or blow through coils.

[hackfreehvac]

Wow I've never heard of the mineral oil idea before. How does it stay in the trap?

[HVACRat]

Oil is lighter than water so the water simply slides beneath the oil leaving it in the trap. If the trap is too short for the static pressure of the unit, it will blow out; just like water. But if the trap holds water then it will hold mineral oil as well. Just re-prime once or twice a year during PMs to get rid of dirt, like normal.

[hackfreehvac]

Ah nice info. The trap needs to be a deep one then. Makes sense.

[marshalljimduncan]

The peoples elbow

[michaelmerritt45]

Going behind dumb peope just part of the job .looks like money to me . Rip it out. time and materials. all day long.

[redsquirrelftw]

Wow brutal. I'm not a hvac pro, but I knew what was wrong when I saw it. First of all if you vent before the P trap,then what's the point of even having the P trap? LOL

[Fastenjaw]

I loled! XD

[HVACTown]

This is a great display of what goes on way too often in this business. I hope that ALL Installers and Technicians in the future will learn to READ! I have to put this on my website. Please visit my NEW site HVAC Town. com

[Lodizal03]

a P trap doesnt need a goddamned vent PEOPLE!!!! its negative pressure in the cabinet!! u need to keep the drain closed! with a P trap in the line below the drain outlet

[death2opposeme]

flat out i get sick of customers, who cheap the fuckout. pay some motard to ATTEMPT fixing equip four or five times. then call us bigboys to fix there bullshit retard mistakes. i hate goin after someone elses mess. you get what you pay 4. and far as sidejobs. i charge what my company charges. and you get what you pay for. i dont do cheap shit.

[death2opposeme]

thats the most retarded shit i ever seen a drain done. damn! o well easy fix. better than having a dumbass from another company installing a flow control wrong on a chiller. busted the chiller and in return fuck'd the compressors. like a oh, 20,000 dollar fuck up.

[swauss]

Well stop hiring Illegals to do your work!!

[101heaters101]

Oh, I may be ignorant, but atleast I know how to spell "customer." I bet the non licensed guys can spell better than you, and your a business owner? LOL nice, you fail.