If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
|
Posted by Stormin Mormon on October 28, 2007, 11:16 pm
3 tons for 1300 sq feet in Maryland? You should be able to use your house as
a meat locker. How about "I'll pay you when it's working". Do you leave all
the doors and windows open with a fan blowing for cross ventilation while
the heat pump is on?
--
Christopher A. Young
.
.
I live in maryland, and have a 1 year old, 13 seer Goodman 3-ton heat
pump for a 1200 sq ft house (yes I know its oversized, but it doesn't
act like it) and it is hooked up to a Space Pak high pressure hvac
system
All summer my AC (heat pump) unit kept the place fairly cold (and
would run constantly during the day, occasionally going off at night),
but would never get the place lower than about 73 degrees during the
day, so I always wondered if it were working correctly. There was a 20
degree differential between the return air temp and the air coming out
of the registers, which is supposed to be correct according to my HVAC
tech who installed it. The temperature on the lineset big tube
(superheat pipe?) was averaging about 60 degrees (measured using an
infrared thermometer), whcih I'm not sure if that was correct or not.
It was well insulated (just the last inch was exposed before it
entered the blower), so I don't think there's was much of any loss in
temperature inside the line set (which is about 15 feet long)
Today, its not cold outside, but a little chilly (65), so i decided to
I turn on the Heat Pump just to see how hot the air would be (last
winter it didn't heat the house too well, but I figured it was because
it was really cold outside). The air coming out of the registers was
only about 75 degrees, and the big tube on the line set was only about
80 degrees.
My gut reaction says that the charge on the system is wrong, and that
the larger pipe of the line set should have been a lot colder than 60
degrees in the summer, and now should be getting a lot hotter than 80
degrees in the fall.
Any advice on what the problem is, and what I should say to the next
HVAC tech that I hire so that it gets done correctly?
|
|
Posted by nscarnati on October 29, 2007, 2:18 pm
wrote:
> 3 tons for 1300 sq feet in Maryland? You should be able to use your house as
> a meat locker. How about "I'll pay you when it's working". Do you leave all
> the doors and windows open with a fan blowing for cross ventilation while
> the heat pump is on?
>
That's what I thought, which I why I think/know something's wrong. The
house is a 1800's brick rowhouse (which inherrently has holes) , but
I've sealed it up tight, and added new windows, doors, insulation, 50+
cans of expanding foam, etc.
I don't want to pay the next guy until it's working 100%, its pretty
damn hard to get any contractor to complete a job 100% before they get
paid. And then once they get "some" money, they dissapear for a few
days until they want more money, so I'd like to be somewhat informed
so that I don't get another run-around from someone else
|
|
Posted by Stormin Mormon on October 29, 2007, 9:24 pm
Well, with those sizes, and your insulation, something is definitely not
putting out three tons. Wish I was there to see it myself. I'm in NY, and no
plans to be in Maryland.
--
Christopher A. Young
.
.
wrote:
> 3 tons for 1300 sq feet in Maryland? You should be able to use your house
as
> a meat locker. How about "I'll pay you when it's working". Do you leave
all
> the doors and windows open with a fan blowing for cross ventilation while
> the heat pump is on?
>
That's what I thought, which I why I think/know something's wrong. The
house is a 1800's brick rowhouse (which inherrently has holes) , but
I've sealed it up tight, and added new windows, doors, insulation, 50+
cans of expanding foam, etc.
I don't want to pay the next guy until it's working 100%, its pretty
damn hard to get any contractor to complete a job 100% before they get
paid. And then once they get "some" money, they dissapear for a few
days until they want more money, so I'd like to be somewhat informed
so that I don't get another run-around from someone else
|
|
Posted by Bubba on October 29, 2007, 10:18 pm
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:24:58 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
>Well, with those sizes, and your insulation, something is definitely not
>putting out three tons. Wish I was there to see it myself. I'm in NY, and no
>plans to be in Maryland.
Keee--rhisssstttt.
Get the popcorn out boys. You're going to have to buy a ticket for
this one. Stormy getting technical............bahahahahaha
Bubba
|
|
Posted by on October 30, 2007, 1:02 am
> Well, with those sizes, and your insulation, something is definitely not
> putting out three tons. Wish I was there to see it myself. I'm in NY, and
no
> plans to be in Maryland.
He doesn't need another HACK!!!!
|
Page 6 of 7 < 1 2 3 > last >>
| Similar Threads | Posted | | Charge Heat Pump in AC mode even in winter?? | November 8, 2006, 8:50 pm |
| Pool Heat Pump Drain Line | July 8, 2007, 12:45 pm |
| 180 psi at suction line (3X higher then chart) - 4T Carrier heat pump | November 5, 2006, 12:24 pm |
| 2 line oil line hook up.DOMESTIC. | November 18, 2006, 9:53 pm |
| first time home owner electirc base heat no ac or heat pump what to do? | April 4, 2007, 8:08 pm |
| air source heat pump, split system, supply water for slab heat/cool | February 15, 2008, 8:27 pm |
| Goodman Heat Pump Emergency Heat doesn't work | January 29, 2007, 8:38 am |
| Heat Anticipator-Heat Pump | November 29, 2006, 10:00 pm |
| Loss of Charge Switch | July 26, 2006, 10:28 am |
| help, help, help , halp me, lordy the man gonna charge me !!! | July 14, 2007, 11:16 am |
|
|
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap