Installed a new 96.5% efficiency furnace today. (lemmy.world)

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Picked up a new stock but dented Daikin furnace for $1200 a while back, and finally got around to installing it today. I had measured up and commissioned a plenum but fucked up a little bit, so it took longer to get the S-cleats properly installed and the plenum airtight than removing the old one, cutting in the cold air return, wiring the electrical and running the intake/exhaust pipes took put together. Approved ducting methods seem so fucking archaic, everything has to be tight but you can't just put things together without taking half a dozen things apart to get it to fit. Of course, I had to fix one transition because I lost my temper and punched the shit out of it.

On the plus side, it only took 2 trips to Home Despot, the second one because the old switch had been drywalled in and was completely inaccessible. I cut the wires off it and put a new box and switch where I could reach it.

I need to get a condensate pump yet, and call for an inspection, but winter is still a few months off so I have time.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

How evil is the rule of the Home Despot? Does he collect big taxes?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

mostly the first trip is where you get 100% of what you planned, and each additional trip is a trip of shame to admit that you were not perfect in planning. Each additional trip costs at least 30 minutes in time plus almost 20$ in replacement parts for what you broke on round 1. Therefore the despot is that each additional trip is probably filled with cussing and feeling that I am paying 1 hour of my time plus the cost of the parts for a job that was too expensive in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Mainly the stupidity tax because you forgot to source something cheaper beforehand.

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